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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. The author provides an excerpt related to "norm theory" that comes from an essay he had written with what psychologist?
2. 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?
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?
4. What does the author describe seeing on a drive from New York to Princeton that surprised him and his wife in Chapter 6?
5. Who discovered a named regression to the mean?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does the author correlate text font to illusion?
2. Who was Amos Tversky and what were his accomplishments?
3. What was involved in the Invisible Gorilla experiment? What did it demonstrate?
4. How is mood related to cognitive ease and cognitive strain?
5. What does the author's example of a study of kidney cancer statistics in different American regions demonstrate?
6. How are believing and unbelieving described in Daniel Gilbert's essay "How Mental Systems Believe"?
7. What is anchoring?
8. What does the author say about stereotyping?
9. 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?
10. What is demonstrated in the experiment that involved a person having a seizure?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
What is confirmation bias and how does it contribute to associative memory? How does it contribute to positive test strategy? What are examples of confirmation bias?
Essay Topic 2
Discuss the experiment on self-control conducted by Walter Mischel. What was the sample size of the experiment? Who were the subjects of the experiment? What were the conclusions reached?
Essay Topic 3
What proposition did Daniel Gilbert present in “How Mental Systems Believe”? How are belief and unbelief defined? How should one assess a decision based on Gilbert's conclusions?
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