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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 25 - 29.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Extreme predictions and willingness to predict events from weak evidence are manifestations of what?
(a) Arrogance.
(b) System 1.
(c) Confidence.
(d) System 2.

2. 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) Cognitive Pupillometry.
(b) An anchoring effect.
(c) Ego depletion.
(d) The Moses Illusion.

3. What organization paid for Thaler to spend a year working with Kahneman in Vancouver?
(a) The Roosevelt Foundation.
(b) The Michael Conner Foundation.
(c) The Russell Sage Foundation.
(d) The Spencer C. Kaufman Foundation.

4. What branch of medicine deals with the incidence, distribution, and possible control of diseases and other health factors?
(a) Biology.
(b) Psychiatry.
(c) Psychology.
(d) Epidemiology.

5. Who wrote Strumbling to Happiness?
(a) Shane Frederick.
(b) Larry Jacoby.
(c) Daniel Gilbert.
(d) Danny Oppenheimer.

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. Who is the author's Princeton colleage that wrote "Consequences of Erudite Vernacular Utilized Irrespective of Necessity: Problems with Using Long Words Needlessly"?

3. In the experiment conducted at the University of Michigan by Richard Nisbett, how many of the 15 participants responded immediately to the stooge's plea for help?

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 wrote The Invisible Gorilla?

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