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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 10 - 14.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What occurs when people consider a particular value for an unknown quantity before estimating that quantity?
(a) An anchoring effect.
(b) Ego depletion.
(c) Cognitive Pupillometry.
(d) Artifacts.

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?
(a) Causality.
(b) Memory.
(c) Prediction.
(d) Consciousness.

3. In conducting their wheel of fortune study, Kahneman and Tversky set their wheel to only stop on what numbers?
(a) 10 or 65.
(b) 4 or 89.
(c) 12 or 98.
(d) 13 or 16.

4. 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?
(a) Nine times more often.
(b) Two times more often.
(c) Six times more often.
(d) Three times more often.

5. What does the author suggest when quoting sources in persuasive writing?
(a) Using names that are easy to pronounce.
(b) Using sources that are celebrities.
(c) Using sources that can easily be verified.
(d) Using sources that are from other countries.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the author of The Black Swan?

2. What book did Abert Michotte write in 1945?

3. Where was Albert Michotte from?

4. The author asserts that conflict between an automatic reaction and what is common in our lives?

5. Who created the Remote Association Test to study creativity?

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