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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do scientists call observations that are produced entirely by some aspect of the method of research?
(a) Artifacts.
(b) Mediums.
(c) Axioms.
(d) Heuristics.

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

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

4. What illusion does the author demonstrate by presenting lines that appear to be different sizes but are in fact the same?
(a) The Muller-Lyer illusion.
(b) The Anchoring illusion.
(c) The Executive Control illusion.
(d) The illusion of Narrative Fallacy.

5. According to the author, what is determined by the coherence of the best story you can tell by the evidence at hand?
(a) Axioms.
(b) Ego depletion.
(c) Executive control.
(d) Confidence.

Short Answer Questions

1. What term is used to describe the adoption and termination of task sets by psychologists?

2. What happened to bond prices on the day of Saddam Hussein's capture in Iraq?

3. What word is used to describe when people fail to apply a logical rule that is obviously relevant?

4. Who introduced the word "flow" to describe the state of effortless attending?

5. The author notes that stereotyping is a negative word in our society. How does the author apply the word in his usage?

Short Essay Questions

1. What experiment is described in the article "Mind at Ease Puts a Smile on the Face"?

2. What was involved in the Invisible Gorilla experiment? What did it demonstrate?

3. What are the processes of System 2?

4. What does the Linda problem prove?

5. What is regression toward the mean?

6. Why did Kahneman's professor of psychotherapy instruct his students to turn away a patient who described having been failed by therapists before him? What concept does this example demonstrate?

7. What does the author demonstrate in the first two figures in Chapter 1 (the woman's face and the multiplication problem)?

8. What is the halo effect?

9. What are the results of our predilection for causal thinking?

10. How is mood related to cognitive ease and cognitive strain?

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