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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What did the fictional Linda major in?
(a) Economics.
(b) Philosophy.
(c) History.
(d) Biology.

4. The author notes that stereotyping is a negative word in our society. How does the author apply the word in his usage?
(a) Tragic.
(b) Caustic.
(c) Positive.
(d) Neutral.

5. 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?
(a) 2.
(b) 6.
(c) 13.
(d) 4.

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

7. Who was Richard Nisbett's student who assisted in conducting an experiment at the University of Michigan that the author cites in Chapter 15?
(a) Gary Klein.
(b) Eugene Borgida.
(c) John List.
(d) Christopher Hsee.

8. Who wrote The Invisible Gorilla?
(a) Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi.
(b) Christopher Chabris and Daniel Simons.
(c) Nassim Taleb.
(d) Larry Jacoby.

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

10. Where did Kahneman and Tversky present their Linda study to doctoral students in the decision-science program?
(a) Harvard University School of Business.
(b) New York University School of Business.
(c) Stanford Graduate School of Business.
(d) Princeton University School of Business.

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

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

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

14. 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) Anne.
(b) Jane.
(c) Kim.
(d) Jennifer.

15. The author asserts that conflict between an automatic reaction and what is common in our lives?
(a) The intention to analyze the reaction.
(b) The intention to follow that reaction.
(c) The intention to control it.
(d) The intention to accept the reaction.

Short Answer Questions

1. The author presents a sentence describing Jane losing her wallet in New York in Chapter 6. What word stood out the most for subjects given a recall test about the sentence?

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

3. Who introduced the word "flow" to describe the state of effortless attending?

4. What is the title of the first joint article written by Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky?

5. What does the author describe seeing on a drive from New York to Princeton that surprised him and his wife in Chapter 6?

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