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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 notes that in the event that this book were made into a film, what role would System 2 play?

2. In the first description of the fictional Linda, Kahneman and Tversky said that she was how old?

3. Cognitive strain is defined by the author as being affected by both the current level of effort and what?

4. What does the author describe seeing on a drive from New York to Princeton that surprised him and his wife in Chapter 6?

5. According to the author, what is determined by the coherence of the best story you can tell by the evidence at hand?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What is priming and how does it relate to anchoring?

3. What is the mere-exposure effect?

4. What does the author's example of a study of kidney cancer statistics in different American regions demonstrate?

5. What is anchoring?

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

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

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

9. What is the halo effect?

10. What is Bayesian inference?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

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

Discuss the concepts of cognitive ease and cognitive strain. How are each defined? How do cognitive ease and strain relate to System 1 and System 2? What are the causes and symptoms of cognitive ease and strain?

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