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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 does the author claim the main function of System 1 is in Chapter 6?

2. Based on the law of least effort, the author concludes that what characteristic is built deep into our nature?

3. Who introduced the labels System 1 and System 2 as systems of the mind?

4. What word is used to describe when people fail to apply a logical rule that is obviously relevant?

5. What branch of medicine deals with the incidence, distribution, and possible control of diseases and other health factors?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was involved in the Invisible Gorilla experiment? What did it demonstrate?

2. What is 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 regression toward the mean?

5. What does WYSIATI mean and how does the author apply it?

6. What is prospect theory?

7. How does the author describe illusions of remembering?

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

9. How are believing and unbelieving described in Daniel Gilbert's essay "How Mental Systems Believe"?

10. What is Bayesian inference?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What is prospect theory? What are the principles of prospect theory? How does the model of prospect theory differ from normative models?

Essay Topic 2

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?

Essay Topic 3

Describe Systems 1 and 2. How are these systems different? How are they similar? What is the inter-relatedness between these two systems?

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