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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. Who was Richard Nisbett's student who assisted in conducting an experiment at the University of Michigan that the author cites in Chapter 15?
2. According to the author, the dynamics of what help explain the recurrent cycles of disaster, concern, and complacency that are familiar to students of large-scale emergencies?
3. According to the author, people who are what are also more likely to make selfish choices, use sexist language, and make superficial judgments in social situations?
4. What comparison does the author make between six-year-old boys and six-year-old girls in Chapter 10?
5. What do causal base rates do?
Short Essay Questions
1. What scene does the author present in order to demonstrate "norm theory" in the text?
2. How are believing and unbelieving described in Daniel Gilbert's essay "How Mental Systems Believe"?
3. 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?
4. How does the author correlate text font to illusion?
5. What is anchoring?
6. What can induce cognitive ease? What does cognitive ease mean?
7. What study by psychologist Eckhard Hess inspired Kahneman's early work?
8. What is prospect theory?
9. What is a heuristic?
10. How is mood related to cognitive ease and cognitive strain?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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 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 author's history with Amos Tversky? On what works did the two collaborate? What terms and concepts did these individuals develop? Cite examples from the text in your answer.
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