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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. Who wrote the book Sources of Power?
(a) Gary Klein.
(b) Max Bazerman.
(c) Christopher Hsee.
(d) John List.

2. What does the acronym WYSIATI stand for?
(a) What you supply is all there is.
(b) What you satisfy is all there is.
(c) What you see is all there is.
(d) What you seek is all there is.

3. What region of the brain is substantially more developed in humans than other primates and is involved in operations associated with intelligence?
(a) The prefrontal area.
(b) The occipital lobe.
(c) The cerebellum.
(d) The brainstem.

4. What is described as the currency consumed by the nervous system above all others, and which serves as a currency for effortful mental activity?
(a) Estrogen.
(b) Glucose.
(c) Vitamin B.
(d) Testosterone.

5. What book did Abert Michotte write in 1945?
(a) The Perception of Causality.
(b) Introduction to Cognitive Pupillometry.
(c) Introduction to the Mind and Morals.
(d) The Moses Illusion.

Short Answer Questions

1. What neighborhood within Niagara Falls, New York was the location of a 70-acre landfill that was the epicenter of a massive environmental disaster?

2. What does the author claim the main function of System 1 is in Chapter 6?

3. 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?

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?

5. What does the author describe seeing on a drive from New York to Princeton that surprised him and his wife in Chapter 6?

Short Essay Questions

1. What are the results of our predilection for causal thinking?

2. What are the processes of System 2?

3. What does WYSIATI mean and how does the author apply it?

4. What is the mere-exposure effect?

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

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

7. How does System 1 operate?

8. What is Bayesian inference?

9. What is regression toward the mean?

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

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