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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 example is presented in the opening of Chapter 1 to demonstrate slow thinking?
(a) A picture of an angry woman.
(b) A multiplication problem.
(c) A picture of a stream.
(d) A compound sentence.

2. What illusion does the author demonstrate by presenting lines that appear to be different sizes but are in fact the same?
(a) The Muller-Lyer illusion.
(b) The Executive Control illusion.
(c) The Anchoring illusion.
(d) The illusion of Narrative Fallacy.

3. The operations of System 2 have one feature in common. What is this feature?
(a) They require attention.
(b) They are fast.
(c) They are heuristic.
(d) They are automatic.

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

5. The author asserts in Chapter 1 that anything that occupies your working memory reduces what?
(a) The availability cascade.
(b) Your ability to think.
(c) Anchoring effects.
(d) Your emotional reactions.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the author claim newspaper headlines do?

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

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

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

5. What region of the brain is substantially more developed in humans than other primates and is involved in operations associated with intelligence?

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