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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 is the title of the first joint article written by Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky?
(a) "The Perception of Causality."
(b) "Introduction to the Mind and Morals."
(c) "Belief in the Law of Small Numbers."
(d) "Probability and Theory."

2. Who created the Remote Association Test to study creativity?
(a) Danny Oppenheimer.
(b) Shane Frederick.
(c) Samoff Mednick.
(d) Daniel Gilbert.

3. The operations of System 2 have one feature in common. What is this feature?
(a) They require attention.
(b) They are automatic.
(c) They are fast.
(d) They are heuristic.

4. What German psychologists offered the most compelling demonstrations of the role of associative coherence in anchoring, according to the author?
(a) Christopher Chabris and Daniel Simons.
(b) Thomas Mussweiler and Fritz Strack.
(c) William Feller.
(d) Larry Jacoby.

5. What statistician illustrated the ease with which people see patterns where none exist?
(a) Eckhard Hess.
(b) William Feller.
(c) Larry Jacoby.
(d) Christopher Chabris.

Short Answer Questions

1. In conducting their wheel of fortune study, Kahneman and Tversky set their wheel to only stop on what numbers?

2. In the presentation of the "character" of Tom W. in Chapter 14, what is the subject of the experiment asked to rate?

3. According to the author, people who are what are also more likely to make selfish choices, use sexist language, and make superficial judgments in social situations?

4. Extreme outcomes are much more likely to be observed under what conditions?

5. What are statistical base rates?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What does the Linda problem prove?

5. What is anchoring?

6. Who was Amos Tversky and what were his accomplishments?

7. How is conjunction fallacy defined?

8. 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?

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

10. What are the processes of System 2?

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