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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 25 - 29.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is described as the currency consumed by the nervous system above all others, and which serves as a currency for effortful mental activity?
(a) Glucose.
(b) Testosterone.
(c) Vitamin B.
(d) Estrogen.

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

3. What term refers to an approach to problem solving that employs a practical method not guaranteed to be perfect, but sufficient for the immediate goals?
(a) Causality.
(b) Illusion.
(c) Executive control.
(d) Heuristic.

4. Who is declared by the author as the hero of the book in Chapter 1?
(a) System 2.
(b) The conscience.
(c) The ego.
(d) System 1.

5. In the first description of the fictional Linda, Kahneman and Tversky said that she was how old?
(a) 35.
(b) 31.
(c) 19.
(d) 26.

Short Answer Questions

1. With whom did Daniel Kahneman conduct a study on pupil dilation at the University of Michigan?

2. What statistician illustrated the ease with which people see patterns where none exist?

3. Who coined the term "mere exposure effect"?

4. Who introduced the labels System 1 and System 2 as systems of the mind?

5. When did the CIA obtain information that al-Qaeda might be planning a major attack against the United States?

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