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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The operations of System 2 have one feature in common. What is this feature?
(a) They are heuristic.
(b) They are fast.
(c) They are automatic.
(d) They require attention.

2. Who is the author of The Black Swan?
(a) Larry Jacoby.
(b) Nassim Taleb.
(c) Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi.
(d) Keith Stanovich.

3. What occurs when people consider a particular value for an unknown quantity before estimating that quantity?
(a) Cognitive Pupillometry.
(b) An anchoring effect.
(c) Artifacts.
(d) Ego depletion.

4. The author notes that in the event that this book were made into a film, what role would System 2 play?
(a) A diva and backstabber.
(b) A minor character that knows it is a minor character.
(c) A supporting character that believes he is the hero.
(d) A leading role while thinking he is a background character.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. The author gives an example in Chapter 10 wherein a large urn is filled with equal numbers of red and white marbles. A person takes four marbles from the urn, counts them, and returns them. The author asserts that the outcome of "two red and two white" marbles is how many times higher than the outcome of four red, or four white marbles?

3. 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?

4. What does the author claim the main function of System 1 is in Chapter 6?

5. Where was Albert Michotte from?

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