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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 author gives an example in Chapter 10 wherein a large urn is filled with equal numbers of red and white marbles. A person takes four marbles from the urn, counts them, and returns them. The author asserts that the outcome of "two red and two white" marbles is how many times higher than the outcome of four red, or four white marbles?
(a) Six times more often.
(b) Two times more often.
(c) Three times more often.
(d) Nine times more often.

2. According to the author, what is determined by the coherence of the best story you can tell by the evidence at hand?
(a) Confidence.
(b) Ego depletion.
(c) Axioms.
(d) Executive control.

3. Who was Richard Nisbett's student who assisted in conducting an experiment at the University of Michigan that the author cites in Chapter 15?
(a) John List.
(b) Gary Klein.
(c) Eugene Borgida.
(d) Christopher Hsee.

4. What term refers to the study of pupils in relation to the mind?
(a) Ego depletion.
(b) Cognitive Pupillometry.
(c) The Muller-Lyer illusion.
(d) The availability cascade.

5. What does the author claim the main function of System 1 is in Chapter 6?
(a) To maintain and update a model for one's personal world.
(b) To grasp large concepts in relation to small concepts.
(c) To calculate difficult problems such as math equations.
(d) To categorize numbers and letters and find associations between them.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who wrote Strumbling to Happiness?

3. What book did Abert Michotte write in 1945?

4. The author states that people's predilection for causal thinking exposes them to serious mistakes in evaluating what?

5. 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?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What is regression toward the mean?

6. 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?

7. What are the results of our predilection for causal thinking?

8. How is conjunction fallacy defined?

9. What is a heuristic?

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

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