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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 wrote The Invisible Gorilla?
(a) Christopher Chabris and Daniel Simons.
(b) Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi.
(c) Nassim Taleb.
(d) Larry Jacoby.

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) Considery axioms.
(b) Cognitively busy.
(c) Emotionally active.
(d) Following fallacies.

3. In conducting their wheel of fortune study, Kahneman and Tversky set their wheel to only stop on what numbers?
(a) 12 or 98.
(b) 10 or 65.
(c) 4 or 89.
(d) 13 or 16.

4. In the presentation of the "character" of Tom W. in Chapter 14, what is the subject of the experiment asked to rate?
(a) How old Tom is.
(b) What Tom's major is in college.
(c) What job Tom has.
(d) At what age Tom gets married.

5. The author presents a sentence describing Jane losing her wallet in New York in Chapter 6. What word stood out the most for subjects given a recall test about the sentence?
(a) City.
(b) Prevalent.
(c) Lost.
(d) Pickpocket.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who is described as the editor for the online magazine Edge that asked scientists to report their favorite equation?

3. What occurs when people consider a particular value for an unknown quantity before estimating that quantity?

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?

5. Who created a study article called "Becoming Famous Overnight"?

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