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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Where was Albert Michotte from?
(a) Belgium.
(b) Norway.
(c) Sweden.
(d) France.

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

4. The author provides an excerpt related to "norm theory" that comes from an essay he had written with what psychologist?
(a) Danny Oppenheimer.
(b) Shane Frederick.
(c) Dale Miller.
(d) Daniel Gilbert.

5. What German psychologists offered the most compelling demonstrations of the role of associative coherence in anchoring, according to the author?
(a) Thomas Mussweiler and Fritz Strack.
(b) Christopher Chabris and Daniel Simons.
(c) William Feller.
(d) Larry Jacoby.

Short Answer Questions

1. What illusion does the author demonstrate by presenting lines that appear to be different sizes but are in fact the same?

2. Who wrote Strumbling to Happiness?

3. What does the author suggest when quoting sources in persuasive writing?

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

5. What comparison does the author make between six-year-old boys and six-year-old girls in Chapter 10?

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