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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 10 - 14.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When the author demonstrates enlisting cognitive ease when writing, he gives two statements about Adolf Hitler. Which of these statements APPEARED to be the most legitimate?
(a) The statement in bold print.
(b) The statement in italics.
(c) The statement in wide-set print.
(d) The statement in small print.

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

3. 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.

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) Following fallacies.
(d) Cognitively busy.

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 image is presented in the opening of Chapter 1 to demonstrate in the reader thinking in automatic mode?

2. In the conclusion of the study of availability bias conducted by Paul Slovic, Sarah Lichtenstein, and Baruch Fischoff, they deduced that estimates of causes of death are warped by what?

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

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

5. Who introduced the word "flow" to describe the state of effortless attending?

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