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

2. What are the subjects in the gorilla study instructed to count in the short film?
(a) Baseball throws.
(b) Seconds while a woman runs.
(c) Basketball passes.
(d) Scores on a video game.

3. What does the author suggest when quoting sources in persuasive writing?
(a) Using sources that are from other countries.
(b) Using sources that can easily be verified.
(c) Using sources that are celebrities.
(d) Using names that are easy to pronounce.

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

5. What book did Abert Michotte write in 1945?
(a) Introduction to Cognitive Pupillometry.
(b) The Moses Illusion.
(c) Introduction to the Mind and Morals.
(d) The Perception of Causality.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the title of the first joint article written by Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky?

2. In the presentation of the "character" of Tom W. in Chapter 14, what is the subject of the experiment asked to rate?

3. What illusion does the author demonstrate by presenting lines that appear to be different sizes but are in fact the same?

4. What does the acronym WYSIATI stand for?

5. What experimental economist conducted an experiment by auctioning sets of ten high-value cards, and identical sets to which three cards of modest value were added?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What is the mere-exposure effect?

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

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

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

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

9. What study by psychologist Eckhard Hess inspired Kahneman's early work?

10. What was involved in the Invisible Gorilla experiment? What did it demonstrate?

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