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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 states that people's predilection for causal thinking exposes them to serious mistakes in evaluating what?
2. Where did Kahneman and Tversky present their Linda study to doctoral students in the decision-science program?
3. What region of the brain is substantially more developed in humans than other primates and is involved in operations associated with intelligence?
4. What book did Abert Michotte write in 1945?
5. What neighborhood within Niagara Falls, New York was the location of a 70-acre landfill that was the epicenter of a massive environmental disaster?
Short Essay Questions
1. What is anchoring?
2. What is priming and how does it relate to anchoring?
3. What does the author demonstrate in the first two figures in Chapter 1 (the woman's face and the multiplication problem)?
4. What is Bayesian inference?
5. What does the Linda problem prove?
6. How is conjunction fallacy defined?
7. What is regression toward the mean?
8. How does the author explore talent and luck in the book?
9. What was involved in the Invisible Gorilla experiment? What did it demonstrate?
10. How does the author correlate text font to illusion?
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
Discuss the conclusions of Paul Slovic in regards to decision making, availability, and risk. How does Slovic consider most people to be in terms of how they are guided in decision making? Does the author agree or disagree with Slovic's conclusion? Why?
Essay Topic 3
What is the halo effect? How does the author demonstrate the halo effect through examples in the text? How would the halo effect come into place when interviewing potential employees for a position?
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