2. The author presents a sentence describing Jane losing her wallet in New York in Chapter 6. What word stood out the most for subjects given a recall test about the sentence?
(a) City.
(b) Prevalent.
(c) Pickpocket.
(d) Lost.

3. Who wrote The Invisible Gorilla?
(a) Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi.
(b) Nassim Taleb.
(c) Larry Jacoby.
(d) Christopher Chabris and Daniel Simons.

4. 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) Emotionally active.
(c) Cognitively busy.
(d) Following fallacies.

5. The average effort of System 2 is repeatedly compared with what?
(a) A sprint.
(b) A crawl.
(c) A stroll.
(d) A race.

Short Answer Questions

1. The author describes a phenomenon discovered by Roy Baumeister's team wherein an effort of will is tiring, and if you have to force yourself to do something, you are less able to exert self-control when the next challenge appears. What is this phenomenon named?

2. What term is used to describe the adoption and termination of task sets by psychologists?

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

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

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

(see the answer key)

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