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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 5 - 9.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. 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.

4. What image is presented in the opening of Chapter 1 to demonstrate in the reader thinking in automatic mode?
(a) An angry woman.
(b) A beach.
(c) A smiling woman.
(d) A smiling man.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote Strumbling to Happiness?

2. Where was Albert Michotte from?

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

4. What happened to bond prices on the day of Saddam Hussein's capture in Iraq?

5. What is System 2 in charge of in terms of behavior?

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