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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 psychologist described the pupil of the eye as a window to the soul in Scientific American?
(a) Eckhard Hess.
(b) Nassim Taleb.
(c) Larry Jacoby.
(d) Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi.

2. What term is used to describe the adoption and termination of task sets by psychologists?
(a) Cognitive Pupillometry.
(b) Active control.
(c) Subconscious control.
(d) Executive control.

3. What are the subjects in the gorilla study instructed to count in the short film?
(a) Seconds while a woman runs.
(b) Basketball passes.
(c) Baseball throws.
(d) Scores on a video game.

4. What do we lose touch with when we are uncomfortable or unhappy?
(a) Admiration.
(b) Intuition.
(c) Recognition.
(d) Articulation.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What term did Sunstein and Kuran invent for the mechanism through which biases flow into policy?

3. Who is declared by the author as the hero of the book in Chapter 1?

4. The average effort of System 2 is repeatedly compared with what?

5. When the author demonstrates enlisting cognitive ease when writing, he gives two statements about Adolf Hitler. Which of these statements APPEARED to be the most legitimate?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the author correlate text font to illusion?

2. Who was Amos Tversky and what were his accomplishments?

3. 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?

4. What does the Linda problem prove?

5. What is priming and how does it relate to anchoring?

6. What study by psychologist Eckhard Hess inspired Kahneman's early work?

7. What can induce cognitive ease? What does cognitive ease mean?

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

9. What is prospect theory?

10. How are believing and unbelieving described in Daniel Gilbert's essay "How Mental Systems Believe"?

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