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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. Extreme outcomes are much more likely to be observed under what conditions?

2. Who is the author of The Black Swan?

3. Who created the Cognitive Reflection Test that involves the bat-and-ball problem along with two others?

4. How many of the participants in Nisbett's experiment at the Univerity of Michigan never got out of their booth when the stooge pleaded for help?

5. Who created the Remote Association Test to study creativity?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Describe the Muller-Lyer illusion. What does it demonstrate?

3. What is a heuristic?

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

5. How does the author correlate text font to illusion?

6. How is conjunction fallacy defined?

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

8. 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?

9. What does the Linda problem prove?

10. How are regression and correlation connected?

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

Describe and discuss expected utility theory. Who introduced this theory? What does it state? How does it differ from prospect theory?

Essay Topic 3

How are normalcy and the capacity for surprise defined and analyzed in "Assessing Normalcy"? To which system of thought does each apply? What happens when several surprises happen in succession of one another?

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