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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 13-16.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the term for the tendency to attribute inner essences to things?
(a) Realism.
(b) Essentialism.
(c) Deconstructionism.
(d) Surrealism.

2. Robert Zajonc equates having feelings about something with performing what other action?
(a) Making judgments about things.
(b) Contemplating those feelings.
(c) Assessing one's self.
(d) Deciding upon next steps.

3. What do psychologists call the network in the brain that is active when people are not doing anything in particular?
(a) The default mode network.
(b) The temporal lobe.
(c) Rational distortion network.
(d) The aggregate self.

4. When it feels like the rational self makes a decision, what is really happening, according to Kurzban?
(a) It is actually that one module is stronger than another in a particular situation.
(b) It is actually that one mental compartment is larger than another.
(c) It is actually that the not-self is becoming fully realized.
(d) It is actually that the sense of self is ebbing away.

5. What is the name of the professor of Psychology at Pennsylvania State University discussed by the author?
(a) Martin Daly.
(b) Ngo Dinh Diem.
(c) Malcolm David Eckel.
(d) Robert Kurzban.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Hindu thought, "there is the idea that the individual self or soul is actually just a part of what you might call a" (203) what?

2. How many minutes does the author say he spends meditating each morning?

3. The author suggests that if a person does not like what, then perhaps Eastern philosophy is not compatible with that person's beliefs?

4. What is NOT a concern the author attributes to the process of natural selection?

5. An intertemporal utility function represents how willing a person is to delay what?

(see the answer key)

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