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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 aspect of the mind answers the question: "How was it, on the whole" (734)?
(a) The anchoring self.
(b) The remembering self.
(c) The experiencing self.
(d) The loss-aversive self.

2. Who was the director of the CIA when intelligence learned that al-Qaeda may be planning a major attack on the U.S.?
(a) Malcolm Gladwell.
(b) George Tenet.
(c) Baruch Fischhoff.
(d) Christopher Chabris.

3. Who is the intellectual leader of an association of scholars against the author's works who call themselves NDM's?
(a) Gary Klein.
(b) Danny Oppenheimer.
(c) Baruch Fischhoff.
(d) Malcolm Gladwell.

4. The author asserts that errors of prediction are inevitable for what reason?
(a) Because humans lack statistical knowledge.
(b) Because humans lack objectivity.
(c) Because the world is unpredictable.
(d) Because we do not have the math to calculate the future.

5. How is the decision contruction of narrow framing defined?
(a) Two simple decisions, considered separately.
(b) A single decision with four options.
(c) A single decision with two options.
(d) Four simple decisions, considered separately.

Short Answer Questions

1. The author states in Chapter 25, "Gambles represent the fact that the consequences of choices are" what (526)?

2. In one example provided by the author in Chapter 31, he establishes two sports fans going to a game while facing a blizzard. One bought his ticket and the other one got his for free from a friend. The author asserts that the fan who paid is more likely to drive. What provides the explanation for this assertion?

3. Who designed the study along with Kahneman that involves two patients undergoing a painful colonoscopy?

4. The author notes in Chapter 30 that what "is similar to the psychology of terrorism" (619)?

5. What aspect of the mind answers the question: "Does it hurt now" (734)?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the author suggest a person should go about hiring a sales representative for his firm using algorhythms?

2. How is evaluation defined as a principle of prospect theory?

3. What does "hedonimeter" refer to?

4. How does the author describe regret in economics?

5. What findings were published in "Money, Kisses, and Electric Shocks: On the Affective Psychology of Risk"?

6. What is broad framing? What is narrow framing?

7. What story from Malcolm Gladwell's book Blink does the author present?

8. What is flow?

9. How do prospect theory and utility theory differ?

10. Wht is duration neglect?

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