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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 aspect of the mind answers the question: "How was it, on the whole" (734)?
2. Who is the intellectual leader of an association of scholars against the author's works who call themselves NDM's?
3. Who is the author of The Halo Effect?
4. Who wrote the 2005 book Expert Political Judgment: How Good Is It? How Can We Know?
5. What psychologist conduted an experiment wherein he recruited fans of professional basketball and elicited judgments concerning the winner of the NBA playoffs?
Short Essay Questions
1. What is a correlations coefficient?
2. What does "hedonimeter" refer to?
3. What evidence was presented by Ed Diener and his team when examining vacations?
4. What is the principle of diminishing sensitivity?
5. Why does the author credit Virginia Apgar with saving the lives of many infants?
6. What is a framing effect?
7. Why was Kahneman astonished upon reading an essay by Bruno Frey?
8. What is the principle of loss aversion?
9. How is evaluation defined as a principle of prospect theory?
10. What did Tversky and Kahneman conclude in their study of pain during medical procedures?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Discuss the Law of Small Numbers. What does this law state? How does the author illustrate the law? How does the law come into play when we assess statistics from scientific studies?
Essay Topic 2
What is the illusion of memory? What example does the author provide to demonstrate this illusion? What are examples of your own experiences (or fictional examples) that demonstrate this illusion?
Essay Topic 3
How are normalcy and the capacity for surprise defined and analyzed in "Assessing Normalcy"? To which system of thought does each apply? What happens when several surprises happen in succession of one another?
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