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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 is used to describe the adoption and termination of task sets by psychologists?
(a) Active control.
(b) Cognitive Pupillometry.
(c) Subconscious control.
(d) Executive control.

2. According to the author, people who are what are also more likely to make selfish choices, use sexist language, and make superficial judgments in social situations?
(a) Cognitively busy.
(b) Emotionally active.
(c) Considery axioms.
(d) Following fallacies.

3. 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?
(a) Both lines will be divergent but correct.
(b) Both lines will be equally accurate.
(c) The line from the bottom will be more accurate.
(d) The line from the top will be more accurate.

4. 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) Larry Jacoby.
(c) Christopher Chabris and Daniel Simons.
(d) William Feller.

5. The author states that people's predilection for causal thinking exposes them to serious mistakes in evaluating what?
(a) The different values of statistics.
(b) The randomness of truly random events.
(c) The merits of analytical analysis.
(d) The causality of events.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who used a method to test intentional causality by making a film in 1944 that involved a circle and two triangles?

2. The operations of System 2 have one feature in common. What is this feature?

3. What word from Chapter 6 refers to the state of being out of keeping with the norm or inconsistent?

4. When the author demonstrates enlisting cognitive ease when writing, he gives two statements about Adolf Hitler. Which of these statements APPEARED to be the most legitimate?

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

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