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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 branch of medicine deals with the incidence, distribution, and possible control of diseases and other health factors?
(a) Biology.
(b) Psychiatry.
(c) Epidemiology.
(d) Psychology.

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

3. What does the acronym WYSIATI stand for?
(a) What you satisfy is all there is.
(b) What you seek is all there is.
(c) What you supply is all there is.
(d) What you see is all there is.

4. In the aphorisms presented by the author in Chapter 5, what aphorisms were judged to be more insightful to study participants?
(a) The ones that use large words.
(b) The ones that are memorable.
(c) The ones that do not rhyme.
(d) The ones that rhyme.

5. What word is used to describe when people fail to apply a logical rule that is obviously relevant?
(a) Fallacy.
(b) Artifact.
(c) Axiom.
(d) Heuristic.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the example where the author presents two candidates for a college professorship, which individual is described as recently completing her graduate work?

2. What neighborhood within Niagara Falls, New York was the location of a 70-acre landfill that was the epicenter of a massive environmental disaster?

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

4. What do scientists call observations that are produced entirely by some aspect of the method of research?

5. Who wrote Strumbling to Happiness?

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