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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. With whom did Daniel Kahneman conduct a study on pupil dilation at the University of Michigan?
(a) Larry Jacoby.
(b) Jackson Beatty.
(c) Nassim Taleb.
(d) Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi.

2. Who discovered a named regression to the mean?
(a) Gary Klein.
(b) Sir Francis Galton.
(c) Christopher Hsee.
(d) John List.

3. 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) William Feller.
(d) Thomas Mussweiler and Fritz Strack.

4. Who is the author of The Black Swan?
(a) Larry Jacoby.
(b) Nassim Taleb.
(c) Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi.
(d) Keith Stanovich.

5. What illusion does the author demonstrate by presenting lines that appear to be different sizes but are in fact the same?
(a) The illusion of Narrative Fallacy.
(b) The Anchoring illusion.
(c) The Muller-Lyer illusion.
(d) The Executive Control illusion.

6. What book did Abert Michotte write in 1945?
(a) The Perception of Causality.
(b) Introduction to the Mind and Morals.
(c) Introduction to Cognitive Pupillometry.
(d) The Moses Illusion.

7. Who wrote the book Sources of Power?
(a) Christopher Hsee.
(b) Max Bazerman.
(c) Gary Klein.
(d) John List.

8. What psychologist described the pupil of the eye as a window to the soul in Scientific American?
(a) Nassim Taleb.
(b) Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi.
(c) Larry Jacoby.
(d) Eckhard Hess.

9. In the presentation of the "character" of Tom W. in Chapter 14, what is the subject of the experiment asked to rate?
(a) At what age Tom gets married.
(b) What Tom's major is in college.
(c) How old Tom is.
(d) What job Tom has.

10. What is a reliable way to make people believe in falsehoods?
(a) Looking to the left.
(b) Nodding.
(c) Standing boldly with arms crossed.
(d) Frequent repetition.

11. 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?
(a) Following fallacies.
(b) Cognitively busy.
(c) Considery axioms.
(d) Emotionally active.

12. In one example provided for the reader, Kahneman instructs to draw one line, 2 1/2 inches from the bottom of a sheet of paper. On a second sheet, the subject is to draw a 2 1/5 line from the top. What are his observations regarding the lines?
(a) The line from the bottom will be more accurate.
(b) Both lines will be equally accurate.
(c) The line from the top will be more accurate.
(d) Both lines will be divergent but correct.

13. What does the author claim the main function of System 1 is in Chapter 6?
(a) To categorize numbers and letters and find associations between them.
(b) To calculate difficult problems such as math equations.
(c) To maintain and update a model for one's personal world.
(d) To grasp large concepts in relation to small concepts.

14. What statistician illustrated the ease with which people see patterns where none exist?
(a) Eckhard Hess.
(b) Christopher Chabris.
(c) Larry Jacoby.
(d) William Feller.

15. What does the author suggest when quoting sources in persuasive writing?
(a) Using sources that are from other countries.
(b) Using names that are easy to pronounce.
(c) Using sources that can easily be verified.
(d) Using sources that are celebrities.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the statistics presented by the author in the opening of Chapter 10, he states that instances of what disease are less prevalent in rural, sparsely populated counties largely in the Midwest, South, and the West?

2. In the example where the author presents two candidates for a college professorship, which individual is described as recently completing her graduate work?

3. What occurs when people consider a particular value for an unknown quantity before estimating that quantity?

4. Based on the law of least effort, the author concludes that what characteristic is built deep into our nature?

5. Who created the Remote Association Test to study creativity?

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