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

2. Who coined the term "mere exposure effect"?
(a) Shane Frederick.
(b) Daniel Gilbert.
(c) Robert Zajonc.
(d) Danny Oppenheimer.

3. What statistician illustrated the ease with which people see patterns where none exist?
(a) Christopher Chabris.
(b) Eckhard Hess.
(c) William Feller.
(d) Larry Jacoby.

4. What do scientists call observations that are produced entirely by some aspect of the method of research?
(a) Heuristics.
(b) Mediums.
(c) Axioms.
(d) Artifacts.

5. What term refers to the study of pupils in relation to the mind?
(a) The Muller-Lyer illusion.
(b) The availability cascade.
(c) Cognitive Pupillometry.
(d) Ego depletion.

Short Answer Questions

1. What psychologist described the pupil of the eye as a window to the soul in Scientific American?

2. 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?

3. Cognitive strain is defined by the author as being affected by both the current level of effort and what?

4. What branch of medicine deals with the incidence, distribution, and possible control of diseases and other health factors?

5. What occurs when people consider a particular value for an unknown quantity before estimating that quantity?

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