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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. 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 do not rhyme.
(b) The ones that rhyme.
(c) The ones that use large words.
(d) The ones that are memorable.

2. What comparison does the author make between six-year-old boys and six-year-old girls in Chapter 10?
(a) Their skills at geometry.
(b) Their average vocabulary.
(c) Their kind behavior.
(d) Their mathematical skills.

3. Who wrote Strumbling to Happiness?
(a) Daniel Gilbert.
(b) Danny Oppenheimer.
(c) Larry Jacoby.
(d) Shane Frederick.

4. 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.

5. The author states that people's predilection for causal thinking exposes them to serious mistakes in evaluating what?
(a) The causality of events.
(b) The different values of statistics.
(c) The merits of analytical analysis.
(d) The randomness of truly random events.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do we lose touch with when we are uncomfortable or unhappy?

2. Who created the Remote Association Test to study creativity?

3. 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?

4. According to the author, the dynamics of what help explain the recurrent cycles of disaster, concern, and complacency that are familiar to students of large-scale emergencies?

5. What do causal base rates do?

Short Essay Questions

1. How are regression and correlation connected?

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

3. What is anchoring?

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

5. What does the Linda problem prove?

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

7. 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?

8. What are the processes of System 2?

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

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

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