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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. According to the author, the dynamics of what help explain the recurrent cycles of disaster, concern, and complacency that are familiar to students of large-scale emergencies?

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

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. What is a reliable way to make people believe in falsehoods?

5. Who wrote the book Sources of Power?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is conjunction fallacy defined?

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

3. How is mood related to cognitive ease and cognitive strain?

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

5. How are regression and correlation connected?

6. What is Bayesian inference?

7. What is anchoring?

8. What can induce cognitive ease? What does cognitive ease mean?

9. What is the halo effect?

10. What is regression toward the mean?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What is the author's history with Amos Tversky? On what works did the two collaborate? What terms and concepts did these individuals develop? Cite examples from the text in your answer.

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 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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