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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The author asserts in Chapter 1 that anything that occupies your working memory reduces what?
(a) Your ability to think.
(b) Anchoring effects.
(c) Your emotional reactions.
(d) The availability cascade.

2. Amos Tversky, Tom Gilovich, and Robert Vallone conducted a study of misperceptions and randomness in what sport?
(a) Tennis.
(b) Soccer.
(c) Basketball.
(d) Football.

3. Who coined the term "mere exposure effect"?
(a) Danny Oppenheimer.
(b) Shane Frederick.
(c) Daniel Gilbert.
(d) Robert Zajonc.

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

5. What German psychologists offered the most compelling demonstrations of the role of associative coherence in anchoring, according to the author?
(a) Christopher Chabris and Daniel Simons.
(b) Larry Jacoby.
(c) Thomas Mussweiler and Fritz Strack.
(d) William Feller.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did the Yom Kippur War break out?

2. The author notes that in the event that this book were made into a film, what role would System 2 play?

3. 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?

4. When did Kahneman publish Attention and Effort?

5. What word from Chapter 6 refers to the state of being out of keeping with the norm or inconsistent?

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