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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 are the subjects in the gorilla study instructed to count in the short film?
(a) Baseball throws.
(b) Seconds while a woman runs.
(c) Basketball passes.
(d) Scores on a video game.

2. What term refers to an approach to problem solving that employs a practical method not guaranteed to be perfect, but sufficient for the immediate goals?
(a) Executive control.
(b) Illusion.
(c) Causality.
(d) Heuristic.

3. What psychologist described the pupil of the eye as a window to the soul in Scientific American?
(a) Larry Jacoby.
(b) Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi.
(c) Nassim Taleb.
(d) Eckhard Hess.

4. 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?
(a) Cognitively busy.
(b) Following fallacies.
(c) Emotionally active.
(d) Considery axioms.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who introduced the word "flow" to describe the state of effortless attending?

2. What do causal base rates do?

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

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

5. When the author demonstrates enlisting cognitive ease when writing, he gives two statements about Adolf Hitler. Which of these statements APPEARED to be the most legitimate?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What is priming and how does it relate to anchoring?

5. What does the Linda problem prove?

6. How does the author explore talent and luck in the book?

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

8. What is a heuristic?

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

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

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