Thinking, Fast and Slow Quiz | Eight Week Quiz B

Daniel Kahneman
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 129 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

Thinking, Fast and Slow Quiz | Eight Week Quiz B

Daniel Kahneman
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 129 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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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 introduced the word "flow" to describe the state of effortless attending?
(a) Nassim Taleb.
(b) Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi.
(c) William Feller.
(d) Larry Jacoby.

2. What are the subjects in the gorilla study instructed to count in the short film?
(a) Baseball throws.
(b) Seconds while a woman runs.
(c) Scores on a video game.
(d) Basketball passes.

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

4. What does the author claim newspaper headlines do?
(a) Entertain and enlighten.
(b) Garnish attention from actual news.
(c) Inform of facts.
(d) Satisfy the need for coherence.

5. The average effort of System 2 is repeatedly compared with what?
(a) A sprint.
(b) A stroll.
(c) A race.
(d) A crawl.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the aphorisms presented by the author in Chapter 5, what aphorisms were judged to be more insightful to study participants?

2. Cognitive strain is defined by the author as being affected by both the current level of effort and what?

3. What word from Chapter 6 refers to the state of being out of keeping with the norm or inconsistent?

4. What illusion does the author demonstrate by presenting lines that appear to be different sizes but are in fact the same?

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?

(see the answer key)

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