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

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?
(a) The Moses Illusion.
(b) Cognitive Pupillometry.
(c) An anchoring effect.
(d) Ego depletion.

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

4. What color are the cabs in the statistics problem presented by the author to examine statistical base rates and causal base rates?
(a) Blue and White.
(b) Yellow and green.
(c) Green and blue.
(d) Red and green.

5. Who wrote the book Sources of Power?
(a) John List.
(b) Max Bazerman.
(c) Gary Klein.
(d) Christopher Hsee.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The operations of System 2 have one feature in common. What is this feature?

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

4. The author compares the conscious mind with what in Chapter 5?

5. Who is declared by the author as the hero of the book in Chapter 1?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why did Kahneman's professor of psychotherapy instruct his students to turn away a patient who described having been failed by therapists before him? What concept does this example demonstrate?

2. What is anchoring?

3. How does the author describe illusions of remembering?

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

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

6. What does the Linda problem prove?

7. What is the mere-exposure effect?

8. What is a heuristic?

9. What does the author say about stereotyping?

10. How does the author correlate text font to illusion?

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