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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 does the author claim newspaper headlines do?
(a) Garnish attention from actual news.
(b) Inform of facts.
(c) Satisfy the need for coherence.
(d) Entertain and enlighten.

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

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

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

5. Who used a method to test intentional causality by making a film in 1944 that involved a circle and two triangles?
(a) Danny Oppenheimer.
(b) Daniel Gilbert.
(c) Shane Frederick.
(d) Fritz Heider and Mary-Ann Simmel.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is a reliable way to make people believe in falsehoods?

2. What illusion is posed by the author in Chapter 6 when he asks about how many animals were brought upon the ark?

3. When the author demonstrates enlisting cognitive ease when writing, he gives two statements about Adolf Hitler. Which of these statements APPEARED to be the most legitimate?

4. The operations of System 2 have one feature in common. What is this feature?

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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