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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who used a method to test intentional causality by making a film in 1944 that involved a circle and two triangles?
(a) Danny Oppenheimer.
(b) Shane Frederick.
(c) Fritz Heider and Mary-Ann Simmel.
(d) Daniel Gilbert.

2. What is a reliable way to make people believe in falsehoods?
(a) Standing boldly with arms crossed.
(b) Nodding.
(c) Frequent repetition.
(d) Looking to the left.

3. Who introduced the word "flow" to describe the state of effortless attending?
(a) Nassim Taleb.
(b) Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi.
(c) Larry Jacoby.
(d) William Feller.

4. 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.

5. From what college did Kahneman and Tversky derive their subjects for their wheel of fortune study?
(a) The University of Oregon.
(b) Berkeley University.
(c) The University of Las Vegas.
(d) Yale University.

Short Answer Questions

1. The author compares the conscious mind with what in Chapter 5?

2. Whom from the University of Chicago asked people to price sets of dinnerware in order to examine joint evaluation?

3. According to the author, what is determined by the coherence of the best story you can tell by the evidence at hand?

4. What book did Abert Michotte write in 1945?

5. When did Kahneman publish Attention and Effort?

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