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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 5 - 9.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. What illusion is posed by the author in Chapter 6 when he asks about how many animals were brought upon the ark?
(a) The Muller-Lyer illusion.The
(b) The Noah Illusion.
(c) The Moses Illusion.
(d) The Biblical Illusion.

5. The author describes a phenomenon discovered by Roy Baumeister's team wherein an effort of will is tiring, and if you have to force yourself to do something, you are less able to exert self-control when the next challenge appears. What is this phenomenon named?
(a) An anchoring effect.
(b) Ego depletion.
(c) The Moses Illusion.
(d) Cognitive Pupillometry.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is a reliable way to make people believe in falsehoods?

2. What is System 2 in charge of in terms of behavior?

3. Where was Albert Michotte from?

4. What example is presented in the opening of Chapter 1 to demonstrate slow thinking?

5. The author asserts in Chapter 1 that anything that occupies your working memory reduces what?

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