Book test

What is the name of the First chapter?

• Bananas Vomit

• The Associative Machine

• Attention and Effort

• Cognitive Ease

In An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, published in 1748, the Scottish philosopher David Hume reduced the principles of association to three: __________, _____________, and ___________

(Which of these is unnecessary)

• Causality

• Resemblance

• Continuity in time and place

• Conscious

The _____________ involves two stages of priming. First, the set of words primes thoughts of old age, though the word old is never mentioned; second, these thoughts prime a behavior, walking slowly, which is associated with old age. All this happens without any awareness.

• "Dakota effect"

• "California effect"

• “Florida effect”

• "Alabama effect"

At a British University office kitchen, above the free tea and coffee machine, for which you pay as much as you want, they started posting images above machine every week, to demonstrate a priming effect. One week they used flowers pictures, next week ________ pictures, and so on. Pictures of what they used?

"Strangers to _______" book written by psychologist Timothy Wilson

• Yourself

• Ourselves

• Myself

• Themselves

Whenever you are conscious, and perhaps even when you are not, multiple computations are going on in your brain, which maintain and update current answers to some key questions: Is anything new going on? Is there a threat? Are things going well? Should my attention be redirected? Is more effort needed for this task?

These assessments are carried by?

• System 1

• System 2

When you feel strained, you are more likely to be vigilant and suspicious, invest more effort in what you are doing, feel less comfortable, and make fewer errors, but you also are less intuitive and less creative than usual.

• True

• False

In chapter Illusions of Remembering, author gives us some names. Which of these is given in the book?

• David Stenbill

• Monica Belluci

• Richard Parks

• Dwayne Johnson

Which of these is true?

• 1892

• 1887

• Both wrong, its 1889

• None of these

In a lake, there is a patch of lily pads. Every day, the patch doubles in size. If it takes 48 days for the patch to cover the entire lake, how long would it take for the patch to cover half of the lake?