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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 19 - 24.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who used a method to test intentional causality by making a film in 1944 that involved a circle and two triangles?
(a) Daniel Gilbert.
(b) Danny Oppenheimer.
(c) Shane Frederick.
(d) Fritz Heider and Mary-Ann Simmel.

2. When the author demonstrates enlisting cognitive ease when writing, he gives two statements about Adolf Hitler. Which of these statements APPEARED to be the most legitimate?
(a) The statement in wide-set print.
(b) The statement in italics.
(c) The statement in bold print.
(d) The statement in small print.

3. What term refers to the study of pupils in relation to the mind?
(a) The availability cascade.
(b) Ego depletion.
(c) Cognitive Pupillometry.
(d) The Muller-Lyer illusion.

4. Who wrote the bestseller book Blink?
(a) Baruch Fischhoff.
(b) Christopher Hsee.
(c) Danny Oppenheimer.
(d) Malcolm Gladwell.

5. Who was Richard Nisbett's student who assisted in conducting an experiment at the University of Michigan that the author cites in Chapter 15?
(a) Gary Klein.
(b) John List.
(c) Christopher Hsee.
(d) Eugene Borgida.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was concluded to achieve better investment results in "Boys Will Be Boys"?

2. The author asserts in Chapter 1 that anything that occupies your working memory reduces what?

3. The author presents a sentence describing Jane losing her wallet in New York in Chapter 6. What word stood out the most for subjects given a recall test about the sentence?

4. Where did Kahneman and Tversky present their Linda study to doctoral students in the decision-science program?

5. What is the title of the first joint article written by Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky?

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