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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. What image is presented in the opening of Chapter 1 to demonstrate in the reader thinking in automatic mode?
(a) A smiling man.
(b) A smiling woman.
(c) An angry woman.
(d) A beach.

2. What word from Chapter 6 refers to the state of being out of keeping with the norm or inconsistent?
(a) Depletion.
(b) Recognition.
(c) Articluation.
(d) Incongruity.

3. 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 calculate difficult problems such as math equations.
(c) To grasp large concepts in relation to small concepts.
(d) To categorize numbers and letters and find associations between them.

4. Who created the Cognitive Reflection Test that involves the bat-and-ball problem along with two others?
(a) Larry Jacoby.
(b) Shane Frederick.
(c) Daniel Gilbert.
(d) Danny Oppenheimer.

5. Whose experiment demonstrating a noncausal base rate when describing a group of students attending Yale?
(a) Gary Klein.
(b) Christopher Hsee.
(c) John List.
(d) Icek Ajzen.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. How many of the participants in Nisbett's experiment at the Univerity of Michigan never got out of their booth when the stooge pleaded for help?

3. What occurs when people consider a particular value for an unknown quantity before estimating that quantity?

4. What did the fictional Linda major in?

5. In the aphorisms presented by the author in Chapter 5, what aphorisms were judged to be more insightful to study participants?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What is the mere-exposure effect?

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

4. 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?

5. What are the processes of System 2?

6. What is Bayesian inference?

7. How does the author describe illusions of remembering?

8. How is conjunction fallacy defined?

9. What does the author say about stereotyping?

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

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