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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 19 - 24.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. When did Kahneman publish Attention and Effort?
(a) 1965.
(b) 1985.
(c) 1973.
(d) 1999.

3. The author compares the conscious mind with what in Chapter 5?
(a) A cemetery.
(b) A cockpit.
(c) A ship's hull.
(d) A ship's mast.

4. 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) Following fallacies.
(c) Emotionally active.
(d) Cognitively busy.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the author of The Black Swan?

2. What image is presented in the opening of Chapter 1 to demonstrate in the reader thinking in automatic mode?

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

4. Who was Richard Nisbett's student who assisted in conducting an experiment at the University of Michigan that the author cites in Chapter 15?

5. Amos Tversky, Tom Gilovich, and Robert Vallone conducted a study of misperceptions and randomness in what sport?

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