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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 is the author's Princeton colleage that wrote "Consequences of Erudite Vernacular Utilized Irrespective of Necessity: Problems with Using Long Words Needlessly"?

2. Whose experiment demonstrating a noncausal base rate when describing a group of students attending Yale?

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. Who wrote the book Sources of Power?

5. What term refers to an approach to problem solving that employs a practical method not guaranteed to be perfect, but sufficient for the immediate goals?

Short Essay Questions

1. What study by psychologist Eckhard Hess inspired Kahneman's early work?

2. What does the author say about stereotyping?

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

4. What is a heuristic?

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

6. What are the results of our predilection for causal thinking?

7. How does the author correlate text font to illusion?

8. How does the author describe illusions of remembering?

9. What is regression toward the mean?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What are frames? What are the different types of frames? How do frames affect decision making? Provide examples of frames from the text and/or from your own experiences.

Essay Topic 2

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?

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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