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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The operations of System 2 have one feature in common. What is this feature?
(a) They require attention.
(b) They are automatic.
(c) They are heuristic.
(d) They are fast.

2. The author states that people's predilection for causal thinking exposes them to serious mistakes in evaluating what?
(a) The different values of statistics.
(b) The causality of events.
(c) The randomness of truly random events.
(d) The merits of analytical analysis.

3. What term refers to the study of pupils in relation to the mind?
(a) Ego depletion.
(b) The Muller-Lyer illusion.
(c) The availability cascade.
(d) Cognitive Pupillometry.

4. Who created a study article called "Becoming Famous Overnight"?
(a) Larry Jacoby.
(b) Eckhard Hess.
(c) Jackson Beatty.
(d) Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi.

5. 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) Prevalent.
(c) Lost.
(d) Pickpocket.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What occurs when people consider a particular value for an unknown quantity before estimating that quantity?

3. What branch of medicine deals with the incidence, distribution, and possible control of diseases and other health factors?

4. What do we lose touch with when we are uncomfortable or unhappy?

5. The author notes that in the event that this book were made into a film, what role would System 2 play?

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