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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. From what college did Kahneman and Tversky derive their subjects for their wheel of fortune study?

2. The author conludes in Chapter 10 that humans pay more attention to the content of messages than to what?

3. Who wrote Strumbling to Happiness?

4. Extreme predictions and willingness to predict events from weak evidence are manifestations of what?

5. The operations of System 2 have one feature in common. What is this feature?

Short Essay Questions

1. How are regression and correlation connected?

2. What is Bayesian inference?

3. What is anchoring?

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

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

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

7. What are the processes of System 2?

8. What is a heuristic?

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

10. 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?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What has the author concluded regarding risk-taking choices? How do they connect with or oppose risk aversion? What are examples presented by the author that illustrate these concepts?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the conclusions of Paul Slovic in regards to decision making, availability, and risk. How does Slovic consider most people to be in terms of how they are guided in decision making? Does the author agree or disagree with Slovic's conclusion? Why?

Essay Topic 3

What are the different actions that the author presents in "How to Write a Persuasive Message"? Give an example of each action one should take. What are the impacts of these actions on the audience/reader?

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