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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 25 - 29.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to the author, what is determined by the coherence of the best story you can tell by the evidence at hand?
(a) Executive control.
(b) Ego depletion.
(c) Confidence.
(d) Axioms.

2. The author presents a sentence describing Jane losing her wallet in New York in Chapter 6. What word stood out the most for subjects given a recall test about the sentence?
(a) City.
(b) Pickpocket.
(c) Lost.
(d) Prevalent.

3. What does the author describe seeing on a drive from New York to Princeton that surprised him and his wife in Chapter 6?
(a) A burning car.
(b) A gorilla.
(c) A man with a gun.
(d) A naked woman.

4. What book did Abert Michotte write in 1945?
(a) The Moses Illusion.
(b) Introduction to Cognitive Pupillometry.
(c) The Perception of Causality.
(d) Introduction to the Mind and Morals.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What psychologist demonstrated disgust by relating that one cockroach could ruin the appeal of a bowl of cherries, but that one cherry would not do anything for a bowl of cockroaches?

2. What word is used to describe when people fail to apply a logical rule that is obviously relevant?

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

4. Who is the author's Princeton colleage that wrote "Consequences of Erudite Vernacular Utilized Irrespective of Necessity: Problems with Using Long Words Needlessly"?

5. The author notes that stereotyping is a negative word in our society. How does the author apply the word in his usage?

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