Blink Quizzes

Blink Quiz 1

1 Where do snap judgments arise from?
Broca's Area

Wernicke's Area

Prefrontal Cortex

Adaptive Unconscious
2 How much did the Getty buy the Kouros for?
5 million

1 million

10 million

2 million
3 What kind of kouros did the Getty kouros resemble the most?
Delphi

Anavyssos

Thesalius

Yiassasos
4 Who was the first to point out the possibility that the kouros was a fake?
Evelyn Harrison

Federico Zeri

Thomas Hoving

Arther Houghton
5 What did John Gottman work on?
How long two people will remain in a relationship

When babies will cry for their mothers

Whether a tennis player will miss the second serve

The ability to tell whether couples will stay married or not
6 What was Gottman's coding system called?
TRED

DAFT

JFCOM

SPAFF
7 How many categories does Gottman's coding system have?
30

20

10

15
8 What is Gottman's success rate in making predictions about his subjects?
95%

85%

80%

90%
9 What is the name of Gottman's book?
Marriage and Relationships

The Mathematics of Divorce

Devout Love and Temptations

Fidelity in America
10 What did the couple in the Gottman anecdote argue over?
Their child

Their in-laws

Their home

Their dog
11 Where did Samuel Gosling carry out his study about personality?
Shopping Mall

Kitchen

Dorm Room

Bathroom
12 What is one of the characteristics evaluated in the Big Five Inventory?
Aggressiveness

Sociability

Kindness

Extraversion
13 What is the main reasons patients file medical malpractice suits?
Delayed care

Treated impersonally or badly

Inaccurate diagnosis

Wrong medicine
14 What does Gladwell say about the attainability of the ability to thin-slicing?
It can be attained by anyone

It is specific to certain professions

It is genetic

It requires formal psychological schooling
15 Who is Vic Braden?
A tennis coach

A basketball player

A world-renowned singer

A professor
16 What is the term for when a tennis player misses both serves?
Double Fault

Double Fail

Second Take

Twin Down
17 What is Braden able to do but unable to explain?
He is able to tell who will win a set

He is able to perfect a serve

He can tell when a player is about to double fault

He is able to make a rookie into a star with a few instant changes
18 What do snap judgments rely on, according to Gladwell?
An innate ability to foretell an event

The fundamentals of education

Genetics

The thinnest slices of experience.
19 How do black students perform on standardized testing when prompted to indicate their race?
Fantastic

Marginally better

Poorly

No change in performance
20 Where do Sheena Iyengar and Raymond Fisman teach?
University of Chicago

Vanderbilt

Columbia

Stanford
21 Who is Andre Agassi?
A football player

A basketball player

A tennis player

A baseball player
22 Who had a large hand in bringing Warren Harding to the presidency of the United States?
Harry Daugherty

Michael Goldbery

Mark Sullivan

David Pence
23 What was Warren Harding's initial occupation before he entered politics?
Professor

Journalist

Lawyer

Doctor
24 Why, despite a lack political intelligence, did Warren Harding rise to prominence - according to Gladwell?
He had a great deal of influence in politics, despite not being a politician

He had the look of the president, and that was enough for people to think him suitable

His father was in politics and helped him become successful in the family business

He had the inside scoop on all the prominent politicians, giving him signifiant leverage
25 Where was Harding nominated?
New Orleans

New York

Chicago

Philadelphia

Which of the design strategies that Gladwell describes do you observe, and how do they seem to affect the customers behavior?

I'm sorry, the copy of the text that I've located doesn't seem to match your according to page numbers. Which "subtitle" does the pages you refer to fall under? I may be able to search the text using those keywords.

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University of Washington

The couple whp participated in Gottman's experiment at the University of Washington had differing opinions on the family dog... the husband didn't like the dog and could have done without it. His wife, however, liked the dog..... period.

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How did the findings of the symposium differ from those reached by scientists after months of study?

Chapter please?

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Blink

by Malcolm Gladwell

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