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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What example is presented in the opening of Chapter 1 to demonstrate slow thinking?
(a) A picture of a stream.
(b) A picture of an angry woman.
(c) A multiplication problem.
(d) A compound sentence.

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

3. 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?
(a) Kidney cancer.
(b) Tuberculosis.
(c) Uterine cancer.
(d) AIDS.

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

5. In the first description of the fictional Linda, Kahneman and Tversky said that she was how old?
(a) 19.
(b) 35.
(c) 26.
(d) 31.

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

7. Who introduced the labels System 1 and System 2 as systems of the mind?
(a) Larry Jacoby.
(b) Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi.
(c) Nassim Taleb.
(d) Keith Stanovich and Richard West.

8. The operations of System 2 have one feature in common. What is this feature?
(a) They require attention.
(b) They are fast.
(c) They are automatic.
(d) They are heuristic.

9. What term is used to describe the adoption and termination of task sets by psychologists?
(a) Executive control.
(b) Active control.
(c) Subconscious control.
(d) Cognitive Pupillometry.

10. Who created the Remote Association Test to study creativity?
(a) Daniel Gilbert.
(b) Samoff Mednick.
(c) Shane Frederick.
(d) Danny Oppenheimer.

11. The author states that people's predilection for causal thinking exposes them to serious mistakes in evaluating what?
(a) The causality of events.
(b) The different values of statistics.
(c) The merits of analytical analysis.
(d) The randomness of truly random events.

12. What neighborhood within Niagara Falls, New York was the location of a 70-acre landfill that was the epicenter of a massive environmental disaster?
(a) Love Canal.
(b) Patterson.
(c) Almeda.
(d) Union City.

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

14. The author gives an example in Chapter 10 wherein a large urn is filled with equal numbers of red and white marbles. A person takes four marbles from the urn, counts them, and returns them. The author asserts that the outcome of "two red and two white" marbles is how many times higher than the outcome of four red, or four white marbles?
(a) Two times more often.
(b) Three times more often.
(c) Nine times more often.
(d) Six times more often.

15. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the aphorisms presented by the author in Chapter 5, what aphorisms were judged to be more insightful to study participants?

2. When the author demonstrates enlisting cognitive ease when writing, he gives two statements about Adolf Hitler. Which of these statements APPEARED to be the most legitimate?

3. The author asserts that conflict between an automatic reaction and what is common in our lives?

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

5. Where was Albert Michotte from?

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