PSYC1105 DW4

Chapter 1

1. What are the characters of the story in the book?

2. What does each character do?

3. Are they ever in conflict? If so, how?

4. Explain the Muller-Lyer illusion.

5. Are the two characters (systems) really in the brain, or are there simply a shorthand for the author to explain things?

 

Chapter 2

6. Try the add-1 task under the mental effort section.  How does it feel?

7. What would happen to your pupils as you do difficult tasks?

8. How did Kahneman use that observation in his research in a basement room?

9. What are some of the tasks that demand effort?

10. What is "executive control"?

 

Chapter 3

11.  What is Kahneman's intuition about walking and thinking at the same time?

12. Explain ego-depletion to a non-expert that is very intelligent.  For example, your parents (assuming they are not psychologists)

13. Why does Kahneman call system 2 "lazy"?

14. What is the Oreo experiment about? 

15. Go back to the introduction of the book.  The second paragraph to be precise, and find the definition of a thinking bias. What is it?