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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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 sources that are from other countries.
(d) Using names that are easy to pronounce.

3. What occurs when people consider a particular value for an unknown quantity before estimating that quantity?
(a) An anchoring effect.
(b) Artifacts.
(c) Cognitive Pupillometry.
(d) Ego depletion.

4. What word is used to describe when people fail to apply a logical rule that is obviously relevant?
(a) Axiom.
(b) Fallacy.
(c) Artifact.
(d) Heuristic.

5. 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) Tuberculosis.
(b) AIDS.
(c) Uterine cancer.
(d) Kidney cancer.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who was Richard Nisbett's student who assisted in conducting an experiment at the University of Michigan that the author cites in Chapter 15?

3. Who is described as the editor for the online magazine Edge that asked scientists to report their favorite equation?

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

5. What term refers to the study of pupils in relation to the mind?

Short Essay Questions

1. How are believing and unbelieving described in Daniel Gilbert's essay "How Mental Systems Believe"?

2. What experiment is described in the article "Mind at Ease Puts a Smile on the Face"?

3. What are the results of our predilection for causal thinking?

4. Why did Kahneman's professor of psychotherapy instruct his students to turn away a patient who described having been failed by therapists before him? What concept does this example demonstrate?

5. Describe the Muller-Lyer illusion. What does it demonstrate?

6. What is the halo effect?

7. How does the author explore talent and luck in the book?

8. What does the author demonstrate in the first two figures in Chapter 1 (the woman's face and the multiplication problem)?

9. What is demonstrated in the experiment that involved a person having a seizure?

10. What can induce cognitive ease? What does cognitive ease mean?

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