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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. What comparison does the author make between six-year-old boys and six-year-old girls in Chapter 10?

2. What illusion is posed by the author in Chapter 6 when he asks about how many animals were brought upon the ark?

3. Who is declared by the author as the hero of the book in Chapter 1?

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

5. What example is presented in the opening of Chapter 1 to demonstrate slow thinking?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the author describe illusions of remembering?

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

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

4. What is Bayesian inference?

5. What does the author demonstrate in the first two figures in Chapter 1 (the woman's face and the multiplication problem)?

6. What is prospect theory?

7. What is the mere-exposure effect?

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

9. How does System 1 operate?

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 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 confirmation bias and how does it contribute to associative memory? How does it contribute to positive test strategy? What are examples of confirmation bias?

Essay Topic 3

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.

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