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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 do we lose touch with when we are uncomfortable or unhappy?
(a) Intuition.
(b) Recognition.
(c) Admiration.
(d) Articulation.

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

3. Who is the author's Princeton colleage that wrote "Consequences of Erudite Vernacular Utilized Irrespective of Necessity: Problems with Using Long Words Needlessly"?
(a) Daniel Gilbert.
(b) Shane Frederick.
(c) Larry Jacoby.
(d) Danny Oppenheimer.

4. 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 rhyme.
(b) The ones that do not rhyme.
(c) The ones that are memorable.
(d) The ones that use large words.

5. What does the author claim the main function of System 1 is in Chapter 6?
(a) To categorize numbers and letters and find associations between them.
(b) To calculate difficult problems such as math equations.
(c) To maintain and update a model for one's personal world.
(d) To grasp large concepts in relation to small concepts.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote Strumbling to Happiness?

2. Who created the Remote Association Test to study creativity?

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

4. The author provides an excerpt related to "norm theory" that comes from an essay he had written with what psychologist?

5. With whom did Daniel Kahneman conduct a study on pupil dilation at the University of Michigan?

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