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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 30 - 34.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Consider the following sentence from Chapter 19 where the author describes people who "knew well before it happened that the 2008 financial crisis was inevitable" (385). What objectionable word does the author point out in this sentence?
(a) Inevitable.
(b) Crisis.
(c) Before.
(d) Knew.

2. What is described as the currency consumed by the nervous system above all others, and which serves as a currency for effortful mental activity?
(a) Vitamin B.
(b) Testosterone.
(c) Estrogen.
(d) Glucose.

3. What does the acronym WYSIATI stand for?
(a) What you supply is all there is.
(b) What you satisfy is all there is.
(c) What you seek is all there is.
(d) What you see is all there is.

4. How many of the participants in Nisbett's experiment at the Univerity of Michigan never got out of their booth when the stooge pleaded for help?
(a) 6.
(b) 13.
(c) 2.
(d) 4.

5. In the following example from Chapter 30, the author posits the following in regards to a person choosing a marble from an urn. The red marbles win a prize. "Urn A contains 10 marbles, of which 1 is red. Urn B contains 100 marbles, of which 8 are red" (631). What are the chances of winning in Urn B?
(a) 20%.
(b) 16%.
(c) 8%.
(d) 10%.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the presentation of the "character" of Tom W. in Chapter 14, what is the subject of the experiment asked to rate?

2. Who first demonstrated the hindsight bias as a student in Jerusalem?

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

4. Extreme outcomes are much more likely to be observed under what conditions?

5. In Chapter 31, the author posits that the main motivators of money-seeking individuals (aside for the very poor) are what?

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