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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 illusion is posed by the author in Chapter 6 when he asks about how many animals were brought upon the ark?
(a) The Muller-Lyer illusion.The
(b) The Biblical Illusion.
(c) The Moses Illusion.
(d) The Noah Illusion.

2. What is System 2 in charge of in terms of behavior?
(a) Emotion.
(b) Impulse.
(c) Self-control.
(d) Deception.

3. The author asserts in Chapter 1 that anything that occupies your working memory reduces what?
(a) The availability cascade.
(b) Anchoring effects.
(c) Your emotional reactions.
(d) Your ability to think.

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) The Moses Illusion.
(b) Cognitive Pupillometry.
(c) Ego depletion.
(d) An anchoring effect.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Based on the law of least effort, the author concludes that what characteristic is built deep into our nature?

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

3. What term refers to the study of pupils in relation to the mind?

4. What example is presented in the opening of Chapter 1 to demonstrate slow thinking?

5. Who wrote Strumbling to Happiness?

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