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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What word from Chapter 6 refers to the state of being out of keeping with the norm or inconsistent?
(a) Articluation.
(b) Recognition.
(c) Depletion.
(d) Incongruity.

2. Who used a method to test intentional causality by making a film in 1944 that involved a circle and two triangles?
(a) Fritz Heider and Mary-Ann Simmel.
(b) Shane Frederick.
(c) Daniel Gilbert.
(d) Danny Oppenheimer.

3. How are decision weights and probabilities regarded in utility theory?
(a) Weights are more important.
(b) Probabilities are more important.
(c) Variations of probability have less effect on decision weights.
(d) The same.

4. Whom from the University of Chicago asked people to price sets of dinnerware in order to examine joint evaluation?
(a) Gary Klein.
(b) John List.
(c) Christopher Hese.
(d) Max Bazerman.

5. Who is the author of The Halo Effect?
(a) Christopher Chabris.
(b) Philip Rosenzweig.
(c) Baruch Fischhoff.
(d) Malcolm Gladwell.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote Judgment in Managerial Decision Making?

2. 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 A?

3. What statistician illustrated the ease with which people see patterns where none exist?

4. Amos Tversky, Tom Gilovich, and Robert Vallone conducted a study of misperceptions and randomness in what sport?

5. The author points out in Chapter 31 that professional golfers putt more successfully when doing what?

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