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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who used a method to test intentional causality by making a film in 1944 that involved a circle and two triangles?
(a) Shane Frederick.
(b) Fritz Heider and Mary-Ann Simmel.
(c) Daniel Gilbert.
(d) Danny Oppenheimer.

3. What does the author describe seeing on a drive from New York to Princeton that surprised him and his wife in Chapter 6?
(a) A man with a gun.
(b) A gorilla.
(c) A naked woman.
(d) A burning car.

4. What comparison does the author make between six-year-old boys and six-year-old girls in Chapter 10?
(a) Their average vocabulary.
(b) Their mathematical skills.
(c) Their kind behavior.
(d) Their skills at geometry.

5. 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) Consciousness.
(b) Memory.
(c) Causality.
(d) Prediction.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote the book Sources of Power?

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

3. What are the subjects in the gorilla study instructed to count in the short film?

4. The author gives an example in Chapter 10 wherein a large urn is filled with equal numbers of red and white marbles. A person takes four marbles from the urn, counts them, and returns them. The author asserts that the outcome of "two red and two white" marbles is how many times higher than the outcome of four red, or four white marbles?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What is a heuristic?

2. How is conjunction fallacy defined?

3. Describe the Muller-Lyer illusion. What does it demonstrate?

4. What does the author demonstrate in the first two figures in Chapter 1 (the woman's face and the multiplication problem)?

5. How does System 1 operate?

6. What is the halo effect?

7. What are the results of our predilection for causal thinking?

8. What is anchoring?

9. What is Bayesian inference?

10. What scene does the author present in order to demonstrate "norm theory" in the text?

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