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

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

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

4. Who created the Remote Association Test to study creativity?
(a) Danny Oppenheimer.
(b) Samoff Mednick.
(c) Shane Frederick.
(d) Daniel Gilbert.

5. What are the subjects in the gorilla study instructed to count in the short film?
(a) Basketball passes.
(b) Scores on a video game.
(c) Seconds while a woman runs.
(d) Baseball throws.

Short Answer Questions

1. What psychologist described the pupil of the eye as a window to the soul in Scientific American?

2. Who coined the term "mere exposure effect"?

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

4. The author provides an excerpt related to "norm theory" that comes from an essay he had written with what psychologist?

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

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