QUIZ #1 Indicate whether the following statements are true or false

1. Decision making processes can be metaphorically divided into two systems, the left-brain and the right-brain.

2. System 1 thinking is fast, effortless, emotional, impulsive, intuitive and unconscious.

3. System 2 thinking is slow, effortful, cautious, conservative, and conscious.

4. According to the concept of coherence, an idea evokes memories, which evoke emotions, which in turn evoke facial expressions and other physical reactions.

5. Frequent repetition causes the brain to flush the statement from its memory completely.

6. In order to make a statement familiar, the statement must be repeated completely and entirely.

7. One aspect of the mere exposure effect is that merely being exposed to something repeatedly makes that thing more favorably rated.

8. Under System 1 thinking, those people who look, behave and talk like you are to be avoided at all cost.

9. Under System 1 thinking, those people who look behave or talk differently from you are considered safe and therefore desirable.

10. A norm is a shared meaning and is learned from early childhood.

11. Under the concept of substitution, System 1 thinking substitutes a happy thought for an unpleasant one.

12. System 2 thinking can follow rules, compare objects on several attributes, and make deliberative choices between options.

13. Recent repetitions of the Oreo Cookie Experiment show fewer children can resist temptation and divert their attention.

14. Most of our biases are conscious products of System 2 thinking.

15. After reading this book (Thinking fast and slow), you should be able to eliminate all biases from your thinking permanently.

16. Humans can use System 2 thinking to guard against unconscious biases that lead to unfair or differential treatment.