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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What German psychologists offered the most compelling demonstrations of the role of associative coherence in anchoring, according to the author?
(a) Thomas Mussweiler and Fritz Strack.
(b) William Feller.
(c) Christopher Chabris and Daniel Simons.
(d) Larry Jacoby.

2. The author states that people's predilection for causal thinking exposes them to serious mistakes in evaluating what?
(a) The merits of analytical analysis.
(b) The different values of statistics.
(c) The randomness of truly random events.
(d) The causality of events.

3. What psychologist described the pupil of the eye as a window to the soul in Scientific American?
(a) Eckhard Hess.
(b) Larry Jacoby.
(c) Nassim Taleb.
(d) Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi.

4. What are statistical base rates?
(a) Statistics that describe maximum imput.
(b) Facts about the history of a decision.
(c) Observations about a group of people.
(d) Facts about a population to which a case belongs.

5. What does the acronym WYSIATI stand for?
(a) What you seek is all there is.
(b) What you see is all there is.
(c) What you satisfy is all there is.
(d) What you supply is all there is.

6. From what college did Kahneman and Tversky derive their subjects for their wheel of fortune study?
(a) Berkeley University.
(b) The University of Las Vegas.
(c) The University of Oregon.
(d) Yale University.

7. In one example provided for the reader, Kahneman instructs to draw one line, 2 1/2 inches from the bottom of a sheet of paper. On a second sheet, the subject is to draw a 2 1/5 line from the top. What are his observations regarding the lines?
(a) The line from the top will be more accurate.
(b) Both lines will be equally accurate.
(c) The line from the bottom will be more accurate.
(d) Both lines will be divergent but correct.

8. Based on the law of least effort, the author concludes that what characteristic is built deep into our nature?
(a) Heroism.
(b) Bitterness.
(c) Laziness.
(d) Gratitude.

9. Who wrote Judgment in Managerial Decision Making?
(a) Christopher Hsee.
(b) Gary Klein.
(c) John List.
(d) Max Bazerman.

10. How many of the participants in Nisbett's experiment at the Univerity of Michigan never got out of their booth when the stooge pleaded for help?
(a) 2.
(b) 13.
(c) 6.
(d) 4.

11. The average effort of System 2 is repeatedly compared with what?
(a) A sprint.
(b) A stroll.
(c) A crawl.
(d) A race.

12. What illusion does the author demonstrate by presenting lines that appear to be different sizes but are in fact the same?
(a) The Muller-Lyer illusion.
(b) The illusion of Narrative Fallacy.
(c) The Executive Control illusion.
(d) The Anchoring illusion.

13. Who coined the term "mere exposure effect"?
(a) Shane Frederick.
(b) Danny Oppenheimer.
(c) Daniel Gilbert.
(d) Robert Zajonc.

14. What region of the brain is substantially more developed in humans than other primates and is involved in operations associated with intelligence?
(a) The occipital lobe.
(b) The brainstem.
(c) The prefrontal area.
(d) The cerebellum.

15. What word from Chapter 6 refers to the state of being out of keeping with the norm or inconsistent?
(a) Recognition.
(b) Incongruity.
(c) Articluation.
(d) Depletion.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the aphorisms presented by the author in Chapter 5, what aphorisms were judged to be more insightful to study participants?

2. Whom from the University of Chicago asked people to price sets of dinnerware in order to examine joint evaluation?

3. According to the author, what is determined by the coherence of the best story you can tell by the evidence at hand?

4. What branch of medicine deals with the incidence, distribution, and possible control of diseases and other health factors?

5. What color are the cabs in the statistics problem presented by the author to examine statistical base rates and causal base rates?

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