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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. Who is the heroine of La Traviata who dies after sacrificing for love?

2. Who first demonstrated the hindsight bias as a student in Jerusalem?

3. How many bus bombings occurred in Israel between December 2001 and September 2004?

4. Who was the founder of psychophysics?

5. Who wrote the 2005 book Expert Political Judgment: How Good Is It? How Can We Know?

Short Essay Questions

1. What are the three qualifications when deciding whether or not to accept a small risk with positive expected value?

2. What evidence was presented by Ed Diener and his team when examining vacations?

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

4. What is a correlations coefficient?

5. What two different meanings does the author attribute to the word utility in Chapter 35?

6. Why does the author credit Virginia Apgar with saving the lives of many infants?

7. What does "hedonimeter" refer to?

8. What is an illusion of skill?

9. What is the initial gamble that Paul Samuelson famously asked a friend?

10. How do prospect theory and utility theory differ?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the Law of Small Numbers. What does this law state? How does the author illustrate the law? How does the law come into play when we assess statistics from scientific studies?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the concepts of cognitive ease and cognitive strain. How are each defined? How do cognitive ease and strain relate to System 1 and System 2? What are the causes and symptoms of cognitive ease and strain?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the conclusions of Paul Slovic in regards to decision making, availability, and risk. How does Slovic consider most people to be in terms of how they are guided in decision making? Does the author agree or disagree with Slovic's conclusion? Why?

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