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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 term did Sunstein and Kuran invent for the mechanism through which biases flow into policy?
(a) An anchoring effect.
(b) The availability cascade.
(c) The Moses Illusion.
(d) Cognitive Pupillometry.

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) Ego depletion.
(d) An anchoring effect.

3. Who is the author's Princeton colleage that wrote "Consequences of Erudite Vernacular Utilized Irrespective of Necessity: Problems with Using Long Words Needlessly"?
(a) Shane Frederick.
(b) Larry Jacoby.
(c) Daniel Gilbert.
(d) Danny Oppenheimer.

4. Based on the law of least effort, the author concludes that what characteristic is built deep into our nature?
(a) Laziness.
(b) Heroism.
(c) Gratitude.
(d) Bitterness.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose experiment demonstrating a noncausal base rate when describing a group of students attending Yale?

2. What word from Chapter 6 refers to the state of being out of keeping with the norm or inconsistent?

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

4. Amos Tversky, Tom Gilovich, and Robert Vallone conducted a study of misperceptions and randomness in what sport?

5. What is described as the currency consumed by the nervous system above all others, and which serves as a currency for effortful mental activity?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the mere-exposure effect?

2. What is Bayesian inference?

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

4. How does System 1 operate?

5. What can induce cognitive ease? What does cognitive ease mean?

6. What is regression toward the mean?

7. What is anchoring?

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

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

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

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