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

2. Who coined the term "mere exposure effect"?
(a) Danny Oppenheimer.
(b) Daniel Gilbert.
(c) Shane Frederick.
(d) Robert Zajonc.

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

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

5. Who is the author of The Black Swan?
(a) Larry Jacoby.
(b) Keith Stanovich.
(c) Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi.
(d) Nassim Taleb.

Short Answer Questions

1. The author notes that in the event that this book were made into a film, what role would System 2 play?

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

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

4. The author asserts that conflict between an automatic reaction and what is common in our lives?

5. 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?

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