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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 first description of the fictional Linda, Kahneman and Tversky said that she was how old?
(a) 35.
(b) 31.
(c) 19.
(d) 26.

2. 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?
(a) Media coverage.
(b) Family history of illness.
(c) The economy.
(d) Direct knowledge.

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

4. What color are the cabs in the statistics problem presented by the author to examine statistical base rates and causal base rates?
(a) Red and green.
(b) Yellow and green.
(c) Green and blue.
(d) Blue and White.

5. Who was Richard Nisbett's student who assisted in conducting an experiment at the University of Michigan that the author cites in Chapter 15?
(a) John List.
(b) Gary Klein.
(c) Christopher Hsee.
(d) Eugene Borgida.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. What term refers to the study of pupils in relation to the mind?

3. What image is presented in the opening of Chapter 1 to demonstrate in the reader thinking in automatic mode?

4. What illusion is posed by the author in Chapter 6 when he asks about how many animals were brought upon the ark?

5. The author asserts in Chapter 1 that anything that occupies your working memory reduces what?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What is regression toward the mean?

3. How is conjunction fallacy defined?

4. What is the halo effect?

5. What is a heuristic?

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

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 does the author say about stereotyping?

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

10. What is anchoring?

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