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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) Statistics that describe maximum imput.
(b) Facts about a population to which a case belongs.
(c) Facts about the history of a decision.
(d) Observations about a group of people.

2. Who discovered a named regression to the mean?
(a) Christopher Hsee.
(b) Gary Klein.
(c) Sir Francis Galton.
(d) John List.

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

4. The author notes that stereotyping is a negative word in our society. How does the author apply the word in his usage?
(a) Neutral.
(b) Tragic.
(c) Positive.
(d) Caustic.

5. What occurs when people consider a particular value for an unknown quantity before estimating that quantity?
(a) Ego depletion.
(b) Artifacts.
(c) An anchoring effect.
(d) Cognitive Pupillometry.

Short Answer Questions

1. What comparison does the author make between six-year-old boys and six-year-old girls in Chapter 10?

2. The author describes a phenomenon discovered by Roy Baumeister's team wherein an effort of will is tiring, and if you have to force yourself to do something, you are less able to exert self-control when the next challenge appears. What is this phenomenon named?

3. What image is presented in the opening of Chapter 1 to demonstrate in the reader thinking in automatic mode?

4. The author provides an excerpt related to "norm theory" that comes from an essay he had written with what psychologist?

5. Who wrote the book Sources of Power?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the author's example of a study of kidney cancer statistics in different American regions demonstrate?

2. What is anchoring?

3. What can induce cognitive ease? What does cognitive ease mean?

4. How does System 1 operate?

5. What is prospect theory?

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

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

8. How is conjunction fallacy defined?

9. How are regression and correlation connected?

10. What are the processes of System 2?

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