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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. When the author demonstrates enlisting cognitive ease when writing, he gives two statements about Adolf Hitler. Which of these statements APPEARED to be the most legitimate?
(a) The statement in wide-set print.
(b) The statement in italics.
(c) The statement in bold print.
(d) The statement in small print.

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

3. Extreme predictions and willingness to predict events from weak evidence are manifestations of what?
(a) Confidence.
(b) System 2.
(c) System 1.
(d) Arrogance.

4. In the aphorisms presented by the author in Chapter 5, what aphorisms were judged to be more insightful to study participants?
(a) The ones that use large words.
(b) The ones that are memorable.
(c) The ones that rhyme.
(d) The ones that do not rhyme.

5. 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 burning car.
(b) A man with a gun.
(c) A naked woman.
(d) A gorilla.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does the author suggest when quoting sources in persuasive writing?

3. In the conclusion of the study of availability bias conducted by Paul Slovic, Sarah Lichtenstein, and Baruch Fischoff, they deduced that estimates of causes of death are warped by what?

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

5. When did the Yom Kippur War break out?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is priming and how does it relate to anchoring?

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

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

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

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

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

7. What is the halo effect?

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

9. How is conjunction fallacy defined?

10. What does the Linda problem prove?

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