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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

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

3. According to the author, people who are what are also more likely to make selfish choices, use sexist language, and make superficial judgments in social situations?
(a) Cognitively busy.
(b) Considery axioms.
(c) Following fallacies.
(d) Emotionally active.

4. Where was Albert Michotte from?
(a) Sweden.
(b) France.
(c) Norway.
(d) Belgium.

5. Extreme predictions and willingness to predict events from weak evidence are manifestations of what?
(a) System 2.
(b) Arrogance.
(c) Confidence.
(d) System 1.

6. In the experiment conducted at the University of Michigan by Richard Nisbett, how many of the 15 participants responded immediately to the stooge's plea for help?
(a) 13.
(b) 9.
(c) 7.
(d) 4.

7. What do causal base rates do?
(a) They solidify one's view of the overall perspective of a case.
(b) They change one's view of how the individual case came to be.
(c) They create ego depletion.
(d) They create axioms.

8. With whom did Daniel Kahneman conduct a study on pupil dilation at the University of Michigan?
(a) Nassim Taleb.
(b) Jackson Beatty.
(c) Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi.
(d) Larry Jacoby.

9. When did the Yom Kippur War break out?
(a) 1973.
(b) 1999.
(c) 1953.
(d) 1965.

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

11. According to the author, what is determined by the coherence of the best story you can tell by the evidence at hand?
(a) Axioms.
(b) Executive control.
(c) Ego depletion.
(d) Confidence.

12. In the statistics presented by the author in the opening of Chapter 10, he states that instances of what disease are less prevalent in rural, sparsely populated counties largely in the Midwest, South, and the West?
(a) Uterine cancer.
(b) Kidney cancer.
(c) AIDS.
(d) Tuberculosis.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What term refers to the study of pupils in relation to the mind?

2. Who is the author's Princeton colleage that wrote "Consequences of Erudite Vernacular Utilized Irrespective of Necessity: Problems with Using Long Words Needlessly"?

3. What does the author claim the main function of System 1 is in Chapter 6?

4. Who coined the term "mere exposure effect"?

5. Who was Richard Nisbett's student who assisted in conducting an experiment at the University of Michigan that the author cites in Chapter 15?

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