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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 term refers to an approach to problem solving that employs a practical method not guaranteed to be perfect, but sufficient for the immediate goals?
(a) Illusion.
(b) Executive control.
(c) Causality.
(d) Heuristic.

2. What are the subjects in the gorilla study instructed to count in the short film?
(a) Basketball passes.
(b) Baseball throws.
(c) Seconds while a woman runs.
(d) Scores on a video game.

3. Who is the author's Princeton colleage that wrote "Consequences of Erudite Vernacular Utilized Irrespective of Necessity: Problems with Using Long Words Needlessly"?
(a) Shane Frederick.
(b) Larry Jacoby.
(c) Danny Oppenheimer.
(d) Daniel Gilbert.

4. What region of the brain is substantially more developed in humans than other primates and is involved in operations associated with intelligence?
(a) The cerebellum.
(b) The occipital lobe.
(c) The brainstem.
(d) The prefrontal area.

5. Who introduced the labels System 1 and System 2 as systems of the mind?
(a) Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi.
(b) Keith Stanovich and Richard West.
(c) Larry Jacoby.
(d) Nassim Taleb.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. When did the Yom Kippur War break out?

3. What term refers to the study of pupils in relation to the mind?

4. What is a reliable way to make people believe in falsehoods?

5. Who created the Cognitive Reflection Test that involves the bat-and-ball problem along with two others?

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