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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 5 - 9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is a reliable way to make people believe in falsehoods?
(a) Looking to the left.
(b) Frequent repetition.
(c) Nodding.
(d) Standing boldly with arms crossed.

2. What illusion does the author demonstrate by presenting lines that appear to be different sizes but are in fact the same?
(a) The Executive Control illusion.
(b) The Anchoring illusion.
(c) The Muller-Lyer illusion.
(d) The illusion of Narrative Fallacy.

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

4. What word from Chapter 6 refers to the state of being out of keeping with the norm or inconsistent?
(a) Recognition.
(b) Incongruity.
(c) Articluation.
(d) Depletion.

5. Cognitive strain is defined by the author as being affected by both the current level of effort and what?
(a) The presence of unmet demands.
(b) Cognitive Pupillometry.
(c) Levels of intelligence.
(d) The probability of future expectations.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who introduced the word "flow" to describe the state of effortless attending?

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

3. The author asserts that conflict between an automatic reaction and what is common in our lives?

4. The author asserts in Chapter 1 that anything that occupies your working memory reduces what?

5. Who used a method to test intentional causality by making a film in 1944 that involved a circle and two triangles?

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