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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who introduced the word "flow" to describe the state of effortless attending?
(a) Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi.
(b) William Feller.
(c) Larry Jacoby.
(d) Nassim Taleb.

3. Extreme outcomes are much more likely to be observed under what conditions?
(a) Small samples.
(b) Subjective experimentation.
(c) Median samples.
(d) Large samples.

4. What do we lose touch with when we are uncomfortable or unhappy?
(a) Recognition.
(b) Admiration.
(c) Intuition.
(d) Articulation.

5. In the aphorisms presented by the author in Chapter 5, what aphorisms were judged to be more insightful to study participants?
(a) The ones that use large words.
(b) The ones that do not rhyme.
(c) The ones that rhyme.
(d) The ones that are memorable.

6. When did the Yom Kippur War break out?
(a) 1973.
(b) 1953.
(c) 1965.
(d) 1999.

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

8. 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?
(a) Prevalent.
(b) Pickpocket.
(c) City.
(d) Lost.

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

10. In the experiment conducted at the University of Michigan by Richard Nisbett, how many of the 15 participants responded immediately to the stooge's plea for help?
(a) 13.
(b) 7.
(c) 4.
(d) 9.

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

12. What is the title of the first joint article written by Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky?
(a) "Probability and Theory."
(b) "Belief in the Law of Small Numbers."
(c) "The Perception of Causality."
(d) "Introduction to the Mind and Morals."

13. The author asserts in Chapter 1 that anything that occupies your working memory reduces what?
(a) Your emotional reactions.
(b) The availability cascade.
(c) Anchoring effects.
(d) Your ability to think.

14. 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.

15. What do causal base rates do?
(a) They create ego depletion.
(b) They solidify one's view of the overall perspective of a case.
(c) They change one's view of how the individual case came to be.
(d) They create axioms.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In the conclusion of the study of availability bias conducted by Paul Slovic, Sarah Lichtenstein, and Baruch Fischoff, they deduced that estimates of causes of death are warped by what?

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?

4. The author notes that in the event that this book were made into a film, what role would System 2 play?

5. 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?

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