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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 example is presented in the opening of Chapter 1 to demonstrate slow thinking?
(a) A multiplication problem.
(b) A picture of an angry woman.
(c) A picture of a stream.
(d) A compound sentence.

2. Who is the author's Princeton colleage that wrote "Consequences of Erudite Vernacular Utilized Irrespective of Necessity: Problems with Using Long Words Needlessly"?
(a) Larry Jacoby.
(b) Shane Frederick.
(c) Daniel Gilbert.
(d) Danny Oppenheimer.

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

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

5. Who created a study article called "Becoming Famous Overnight"?
(a) Jackson Beatty.
(b) Eckhard Hess.
(c) Larry Jacoby.
(d) Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are the subjects in the gorilla study instructed to count in the short film?

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

3. Where was Albert Michotte from?

4. What region of the brain is substantially more developed in humans than other primates and is involved in operations associated with intelligence?

5. Who created the Remote Association Test to study creativity?

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