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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. The author asserts in Chapter 1 that anything that occupies your working memory reduces what?
2. The author provides an excerpt related to "norm theory" that comes from an essay he had written with what psychologist?
3. The author gives an example in Chapter 10 wherein a large urn is filled with equal numbers of red and white marbles. A person takes four marbles from the urn, counts them, and returns them. The author asserts that the outcome of "two red and two white" marbles is how many times higher than the outcome of four red, or four white marbles?
4. The author conludes in Chapter 10 that humans pay more attention to the content of messages than to what?
5. What does the author claim the main function of System 1 is in Chapter 6?
Short Essay Questions
1. 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?
2. What can induce cognitive ease? What does cognitive ease mean?
3. Describe the Muller-Lyer illusion. What does it demonstrate?
4. What is demonstrated in the experiment that involved a person having a seizure?
5. How does the author explore talent and luck in the book?
6. How is conjunction fallacy defined?
7. How are regression and correlation connected?
8. What are the results of our predilection for causal thinking?
9. What is priming and how does it relate to anchoring?
10. What is regression toward the mean?
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
What is prospect theory? What are the principles of prospect theory? How does the model of prospect theory differ from normative models?
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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