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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who introduced the labels System 1 and System 2 as systems of the mind?
(a) Nassim Taleb.
(b) Larry Jacoby.
(c) Keith Stanovich and Richard West.
(d) Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi.

2. Who introduced the word "flow" to describe the state of effortless attending?
(a) Nassim Taleb.
(b) Larry Jacoby.
(c) Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi.
(d) William Feller.

3. 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) Lost.
(b) City.
(c) Pickpocket.
(d) Prevalent.

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

5. What does the author suggest when quoting sources in persuasive writing?
(a) Using sources that are celebrities.
(b) Using names that are easy to pronounce.
(c) Using sources that are from other countries.
(d) Using sources that can easily be verified.

Short Answer Questions

1. The author compares the conscious mind with what in Chapter 5?

2. What are the subjects in the gorilla study instructed to count in the short film?

3. Who is the author's Princeton colleage that wrote "Consequences of Erudite Vernacular Utilized Irrespective of Necessity: Problems with Using Long Words Needlessly"?

4. Who created a study article called "Becoming Famous Overnight"?

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

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