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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 5 - 9.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Who wrote Strumbling to Happiness?
(a) Larry Jacoby.
(b) Shane Frederick.
(c) Daniel Gilbert.
(d) Danny Oppenheimer.
2. Who is the author of The Black Swan?
(a) Keith Stanovich.
(b) Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi.
(c) Larry Jacoby.
(d) Nassim Taleb.
3. Who wrote The Invisible Gorilla?
(a) Christopher Chabris and Daniel Simons.
(b) Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi.
(c) Nassim Taleb.
(d) Larry Jacoby.
4. What does the author suggest when quoting sources in persuasive writing?
(a) Using sources that are celebrities.
(b) Using sources that are from other countries.
(c) Using sources that can easily be verified.
(d) Using names that are easy to pronounce.
5. With whom did Daniel Kahneman conduct a study on pupil dilation at the University of Michigan?
(a) Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi.
(b) Jackson Beatty.
(c) Nassim Taleb.
(d) Larry Jacoby.
Short Answer Questions
1. What do we lose touch with when we are uncomfortable or unhappy?
2. The author asserts in Chapter 1 that anything that occupies your working memory reduces what?
3. What happened to bond prices on the day of Saddam Hussein's capture in Iraq?
4. The operations of System 2 have one feature in common. What is this feature?
5. What term refers to the study of pupils in relation to the mind?
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