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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

2. What does the author claim the main function of System 1 is in Chapter 6?
(a) To calculate difficult problems such as math equations.
(b) To grasp large concepts in relation to small concepts.
(c) To categorize numbers and letters and find associations between them.
(d) To maintain and update a model for one's personal world.

3. The author compares the conscious mind with what in Chapter 5?
(a) A ship's hull.
(b) A cemetery.
(c) A cockpit.
(d) A ship's mast.

4. In the first description of the fictional Linda, Kahneman and Tversky said that she was how old?
(a) 19.
(b) 35.
(c) 31.
(d) 26.

5. Who wrote Strumbling to Happiness?
(a) Shane Frederick.
(b) Larry Jacoby.
(c) Daniel Gilbert.
(d) Danny Oppenheimer.

6. What is the title of the first joint article written by Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky?
(a) "The Perception of Causality."
(b) "Introduction to the Mind and Morals."
(c) "Belief in the Law of Small Numbers."
(d) "Probability and Theory."

7. Whom from the University of Chicago asked people to price sets of dinnerware in order to examine joint evaluation?
(a) Gary Klein.
(b) Max Bazerman.
(c) Christopher Hese.
(d) John List.

8. Amos Tversky, Tom Gilovich, and Robert Vallone conducted a study of misperceptions and randomness in what sport?
(a) Football.
(b) Soccer.
(c) Tennis.
(d) Basketball.

9. What term refers to the study of pupils in relation to the mind?
(a) The Muller-Lyer illusion.
(b) The availability cascade.
(c) Cognitive Pupillometry.
(d) Ego depletion.

10. Who introduced the word "flow" to describe the state of effortless attending?
(a) Nassim Taleb.
(b) William Feller.
(c) Larry Jacoby.
(d) Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi.

11. Who was Richard Nisbett's student who assisted in conducting an experiment at the University of Michigan that the author cites in Chapter 15?
(a) John List.
(b) Gary Klein.
(c) Eugene Borgida.
(d) Christopher Hsee.

12. What does the author claim newspaper headlines do?
(a) Inform of facts.
(b) Entertain and enlighten.
(c) Garnish attention from actual news.
(d) Satisfy the need for coherence.

13. Who created a study article called "Becoming Famous Overnight"?
(a) Larry Jacoby.
(b) Eckhard Hess.
(c) Jackson Beatty.
(d) Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi.

14. According to the author, the dynamics of what help explain the recurrent cycles of disaster, concern, and complacency that are familiar to students of large-scale emergencies?
(a) Causality.
(b) Memory.
(c) Consciousness.
(d) Prediction.

15. What word is used to describe when people fail to apply a logical rule that is obviously relevant?
(a) Artifact.
(b) Fallacy.
(c) Heuristic.
(d) Axiom.

Short Answer Questions

1. The author notes that stereotyping is a negative word in our society. How does the author apply the word in his usage?

2. When did Kahneman publish Attention and Effort?

3. What do scientists call observations that are produced entirely by some aspect of the method of research?

4. What neighborhood within Niagara Falls, New York was the location of a 70-acre landfill that was the epicenter of a massive environmental disaster?

5. In the conclusion of the study of availability bias conducted by Paul Slovic, Sarah Lichtenstein, and Baruch Fischoff, they deduced that estimates of causes of death are warped by what?

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