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

2. Based on the law of least effort, the author concludes that what characteristic is built deep into our nature?
(a) Gratitude.
(b) Heroism.
(c) Bitterness.
(d) Laziness.

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

4. What does the author describe seeing on a drive from New York to Princeton that surprised him and his wife in Chapter 6?
(a) A burning car.
(b) A gorilla.
(c) A man with a gun.
(d) A naked woman.

5. In the aphorisms presented by the author in Chapter 5, what aphorisms were judged to be more insightful to study participants?
(a) The ones that use large words.
(b) The ones that are memorable.
(c) The ones that do not rhyme.
(d) The ones that rhyme.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Cognitive strain is defined by the author as being affected by both the current level of effort and what?

4. What term is used to describe the adoption and termination of task sets by psychologists?

5. What region of the brain is substantially more developed in humans than other primates and is involved in operations associated with intelligence?

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