1. What word from Chapter 6 refers to the state of being out of keeping with the norm or inconsistent?
(a) Depletion.
(b) Articluation.
(c) Incongruity.
(d) Recognition.

2. 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) Emotionally active.
(b) Following fallacies.
(c) Cognitively busy.
(d) Considery axioms.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Who used a method to test intentional causality by making a film in 1944 that involved a circle and two triangles?

4. Who is declared by the author as the hero of the book in Chapter 1?

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

(see the answer key)

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