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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. Who created the Cognitive Reflection Test that involves the bat-and-ball problem along with two others?
2. Whom from the University of Chicago asked people to price sets of dinnerware in order to examine joint evaluation?
3. Who is described as the editor for the online magazine Edge that asked scientists to report their favorite equation?
4. What experimental economist conducted an experiment by auctioning sets of ten high-value cards, and identical sets to which three cards of modest value were added?
5. The author notes that in the event that this book were made into a film, what role would System 2 play?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does the author's example of a study of kidney cancer statistics in different American regions demonstrate?
2. What does WYSIATI mean and how does the author apply it?
3. What is Bayesian inference?
4. What can induce cognitive ease? What does cognitive ease mean?
5. What is prospect theory?
6. What experiment is described in the article "Mind at Ease Puts a Smile on the Face"?
7. What does the author demonstrate in the first two figures in Chapter 1 (the woman's face and the multiplication problem)?
8. What are the results of our predilection for causal thinking?
9. What scene does the author present in order to demonstrate "norm theory" in the text?
10. What is the mere-exposure effect?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Discuss the experiment on self-control conducted by Walter Mischel. What was the sample size of the experiment? Who were the subjects of the experiment? What were the conclusions reached?
Essay Topic 2
What is the priming effect? What are different manifestations of the priming effect? Give examples from the text and from your own experience that demonstrate priming effects.
Essay Topic 3
What proposition did Daniel Gilbert present in “How Mental Systems Believe”? How are belief and unbelief defined? How should one assess a decision based on Gilbert's conclusions?
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