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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. Who introduced the labels System 1 and System 2 as systems of the mind?
(a) Keith Stanovich and Richard West.
(b) Nassim Taleb.
(c) Larry Jacoby.
(d) Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi.

2. With whom did Daniel Kahneman conduct a study on pupil dilation at the University of Michigan?
(a) Larry Jacoby.
(b) Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi.
(c) Jackson Beatty.
(d) Nassim Taleb.

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

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

5. The author presents a sentence describing Jane losing her wallet in New York in Chapter 6. What word stood out the most for subjects given a recall test about the sentence?
(a) City.
(b) Prevalent.
(c) Pickpocket.
(d) Lost.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who used a method to test intentional causality by making a film in 1944 that involved a circle and two triangles?

2. 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?

3. What does the acronym WYSIATI stand for?

4. What does the author claim newspaper headlines do?

5. What region of the brain is substantially more developed in humans than other primates and is involved in operations associated with intelligence?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. 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?

3. What is prospect theory?

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

5. What is regression toward the mean?

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

7. How does the author describe illusions of remembering?

8. What is Bayesian inference?

9. How is conjunction fallacy defined?

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

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