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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 neighborhood within Niagara Falls, New York was the location of a 70-acre landfill that was the epicenter of a massive environmental disaster?
(a) Love Canal.
(b) Patterson.
(c) Almeda.
(d) Union City.

2. 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) 4.
(b) 13.
(c) 6.
(d) 2.

3. In the example where the author presents two candidates for a college professorship, which individual is described as having held a postdoctoral position for the last three years?
(a) Kim.
(b) Anne.
(c) Jane.
(d) Jennifer.

4. Extreme outcomes are much more likely to be observed under what conditions?
(a) Small samples.
(b) Subjective experimentation.
(c) Large samples.
(d) Median samples.

5. The author conludes in Chapter 10 that humans pay more attention to the content of messages than to what?
(a) Information about their connection with self.
(b) Their causality.
(c) Information about their reliability.
(d) The statistics behind them.

Short Answer Questions

1. What occurs when people consider a particular value for an unknown quantity before estimating that quantity?

2. What German psychologists offered the most compelling demonstrations of the role of associative coherence in anchoring, according to the author?

3. Who created the Cognitive Reflection Test that involves the bat-and-ball problem along with two others?

4. What does the author claim newspaper headlines do?

5. 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?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the author explore talent and luck in the book?

2. How are believing and unbelieving described in Daniel Gilbert's essay "How Mental Systems Believe"?

3. How are regression and correlation connected?

4. What is regression toward the mean?

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

6. What is demonstrated in the experiment that involved a person having a seizure?

7. What experiment is described in the article "Mind at Ease Puts a Smile on the Face"?

8. How is mood related to cognitive ease and cognitive strain?

9. Who was Amos Tversky and what were his accomplishments?

10. What does the author say about stereotyping?

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