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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 15 - 18.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Whose experiment demonstrating a noncausal base rate when describing a group of students attending Yale?
(a) Icek Ajzen.
(b) Gary Klein.
(c) Christopher Hsee.
(d) John List.

2. What word is used to describe when people fail to apply a logical rule that is obviously relevant?
(a) Artifact.
(b) Fallacy.
(c) Axiom.
(d) Heuristic.

3. According to the author, what is determined by the coherence of the best story you can tell by the evidence at hand?
(a) Executive control.
(b) Axioms.
(c) Ego depletion.
(d) Confidence.

4. In the example where the author presents two candidates for a college professorship, which individual is described as having held a postdoctoral position for the last three years?
(a) Kim.
(b) Jennifer.
(c) Jane.
(d) Anne.

5. Who created a study article called "Becoming Famous Overnight"?
(a) Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi.
(b) Larry Jacoby.
(c) Eckhard Hess.
(d) Jackson Beatty.

Short Answer Questions

1. What experimental economist conducted an experiment by auctioning sets of ten high-value cards, and identical sets to which three cards of modest value were added?

2. Who created the Cognitive Reflection Test that involves the bat-and-ball problem along with two others?

3. From what college did Kahneman and Tversky derive their subjects for their wheel of fortune study?

4. What does the acronym WYSIATI stand for?

5. The author states that people's predilection for causal thinking exposes them to serious mistakes in evaluating what?

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