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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

2. The author asserts that conflict between an automatic reaction and what is common in our lives?
(a) The intention to follow that reaction.
(b) The intention to accept the reaction.
(c) The intention to control it.
(d) The intention to analyze the reaction.

3. Who created the Cognitive Reflection Test that involves the bat-and-ball problem along with two others?
(a) Larry Jacoby.
(b) Danny Oppenheimer.
(c) Shane Frederick.
(d) Daniel Gilbert.

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

5. What term is used to describe the adoption and termination of task sets by psychologists?
(a) Cognitive Pupillometry.
(b) Active control.
(c) Executive control.
(d) Subconscious control.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. 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?

3. Where was Albert Michotte from?

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

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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