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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 10 - 14.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do scientists call observations that are produced entirely by some aspect of the method of research?
(a) Heuristics.
(b) Axioms.
(c) Mediums.
(d) Artifacts.

2. When did Kahneman publish Attention and Effort?
(a) 1999.
(b) 1985.
(c) 1965.
(d) 1973.

3. In conducting their wheel of fortune study, Kahneman and Tversky set their wheel to only stop on what numbers?
(a) 10 or 65.
(b) 12 or 98.
(c) 13 or 16.
(d) 4 or 89.

4. The author describes a phenomenon discovered by Roy Baumeister's team wherein an effort of will is tiring, and if you have to force yourself to do something, you are less able to exert self-control when the next challenge appears. What is this phenomenon named?
(a) Ego depletion.
(b) An anchoring effect.
(c) Cognitive Pupillometry.
(d) The Moses Illusion.

5. What does the author claim the main function of System 1 is in Chapter 6?
(a) To calculate difficult problems such as math equations.
(b) To categorize numbers and letters and find associations between them.
(c) To maintain and update a model for one's personal world.
(d) To grasp large concepts in relation to small concepts.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who introduced the labels System 1 and System 2 as systems of the mind?

2. What is a reliable way to make people believe in falsehoods?

3. Who is the author of The Black Swan?

4. What comparison does the author make between six-year-old boys and six-year-old girls in Chapter 10?

5. Cognitive strain is defined by the author as being affected by both the current level of effort and what?

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