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

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

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

4. What image is presented in the opening of Chapter 1 to demonstrate in the reader thinking in automatic mode?
(a) A beach.
(b) An angry woman.
(c) A smiling man.
(d) A smiling woman.

5. 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) Eugene Borgida.
(b) Gary Klein.
(c) Christopher Hsee.
(d) John List.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who created the Cognitive Reflection Test that involves the bat-and-ball problem along with two others?

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

3. In one example provided for the reader, Kahneman instructs to draw one line, 2 1/2 inches from the bottom of a sheet of paper. On a second sheet, the subject is to draw a 2 1/5 line from the top. What are his observations regarding the lines?

4. Whose experiment demonstrating a noncausal base rate when describing a group of students attending Yale?

5. What color are the cabs in the statistics problem presented by the author to examine statistical base rates and causal base rates?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What is regression toward the mean?

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

4. What is the mere-exposure effect?

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

6. What does WYSIATI mean and how does the author apply it?

7. How does System 1 operate?

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

9. What is the halo effect?

10. Who was Amos Tversky and what were his accomplishments?

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