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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. What experimental economist conducted an experiment by auctioning sets of ten high-value cards, and identical sets to which three cards of modest value were added?
(a) Gary Klein.
(b) Max Bazerman.
(c) Christopher Hsee.
(d) John List.

2. In the example where the author presents two candidates for a college professorship, which choice is favored by intuition?
(a) Kim.
(b) Anne.
(c) Jane.
(d) Sarah.

3. 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) Emotionally active.
(b) Considery axioms.
(c) Cognitively busy.
(d) Following fallacies.

4. 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) 7.
(b) 4.
(c) 9.
(d) 13.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the author claim the main function of System 1 is in Chapter 6?

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. 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. What term refers to an approach to problem solving that employs a practical method not guaranteed to be perfect, but sufficient for the immediate goals?

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?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the author say about stereotyping?

2. What is the mere-exposure effect?

3. How does System 1 operate?

4. What is prospect theory?

5. How are regression and correlation connected?

6. How is conjunction fallacy defined?

7. 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?

8. What does the Linda problem prove?

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

10. How does the author describe illusions of remembering?

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