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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What book did Abert Michotte write in 1945?
(a) Introduction to the Mind and Morals.
(b) The Moses Illusion.
(c) The Perception of Causality.
(d) Introduction to Cognitive Pupillometry.

2. What word from Chapter 6 refers to the state of being out of keeping with the norm or inconsistent?
(a) Articluation.
(b) Recognition.
(c) Depletion.
(d) Incongruity.

3. What illusion is posed by the author in Chapter 6 when he asks about how many animals were brought upon the ark?
(a) The Biblical Illusion.
(b) The Muller-Lyer illusion.The
(c) The Noah Illusion.
(d) The Moses Illusion.

4. Who created a study article called "Becoming Famous Overnight"?
(a) Jackson Beatty.
(b) Eckhard Hess.
(c) Larry Jacoby.
(d) Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi.

5. What comparison does the author make between six-year-old boys and six-year-old girls in Chapter 10?
(a) Their average vocabulary.
(b) Their skills at geometry.
(c) Their kind behavior.
(d) Their mathematical skills.

Short Answer Questions

1. In one example provided for the reader, Kahneman instructs to draw one line, 2 1/2 inches from the bottom of a sheet of paper. On a second sheet, the subject is to draw a 2 1/5 line from the top. What are his observations regarding the lines?

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

3. What is described as the currency consumed by the nervous system above all others, and which serves as a currency for effortful mental activity?

4. 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?

5. Who wrote Strumbling to Happiness?

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