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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 15 - 18.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is System 2 in charge of in terms of behavior?
(a) Deception.
(b) Self-control.
(c) Impulse.
(d) Emotion.

2. Extreme predictions and willingness to predict events from weak evidence are manifestations of what?
(a) Arrogance.
(b) System 2.
(c) Confidence.
(d) System 1.

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

4. 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?
(a) Ego depletion.
(b) An anchoring effect.
(c) The Moses Illusion.
(d) Cognitive Pupillometry.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What are statistical base rates?

3. Who created the Remote Association Test to study creativity?

4. 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?

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

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