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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. From what college did Kahneman and Tversky derive their subjects for their wheel of fortune study?
(a) Yale University.
(b) Berkeley University.
(c) The University of Oregon.
(d) The University of Las Vegas.

4. What branch of medicine deals with the incidence, distribution, and possible control of diseases and other health factors?
(a) Psychology.
(b) Biology.
(c) Psychiatry.
(d) Epidemiology.

5. What illusion is posed by the author in Chapter 6 when he asks about how many animals were brought upon the ark?
(a) The Biblical Illusion.
(b) The Moses Illusion.
(c) The Noah Illusion.
(d) The Muller-Lyer illusion.The

Short Answer Questions

1. What comparison does the author make between six-year-old boys and six-year-old girls in Chapter 10?

2. According to the author, people who are what are also more likely to make selfish choices, use sexist language, and make superficial judgments in social situations?

3. 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?

4. What German psychologists offered the most compelling demonstrations of the role of associative coherence in anchoring, according to the author?

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

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