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

2. Where was Albert Michotte from?
(a) Norway.
(b) Sweden.
(c) France.
(d) Belgium.

3. Who created the Cognitive Reflection Test that involves the bat-and-ball problem along with two others?
(a) Larry Jacoby.
(b) Shane Frederick.
(c) Daniel Gilbert.
(d) Danny Oppenheimer.

4. With whom did Daniel Kahneman conduct a study on pupil dilation at the University of Michigan?
(a) Nassim Taleb.
(b) Jackson Beatty.
(c) Larry Jacoby.
(d) Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi.

5. According to the author, people who are what are also more likely to make selfish choices, use sexist language, and make superficial judgments in social situations?
(a) Cognitively busy.
(b) Following fallacies.
(c) Considery axioms.
(d) Emotionally active.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the author of The Black Swan?

2. What does the author describe seeing on a drive from New York to Princeton that surprised him and his wife in Chapter 6?

3. What does the author suggest when quoting sources in persuasive writing?

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

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

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