Blink Quizzes

Blink Quiz 1

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

Wernicke's Area

Adaptive Unconscious

Prefrontal Cortex
2 How much did the Getty buy the Kouros for?
2 million

5 million

1 million

10 million
3 What kind of kouros did the Getty kouros resemble the most?
Yiassasos

Thesalius

Anavyssos

Delphi
4 Who was the first to point out the possibility that the kouros was a fake?
Thomas Hoving

Arther Houghton

Federico Zeri

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

Whether a tennis player will miss the second serve

The ability to tell whether couples will stay married or not

When babies will cry for their mothers
6 What was Gottman's coding system called?
DAFT

JFCOM

TRED

SPAFF
7 How many categories does Gottman's coding system have?
20

30

10

15
8 What is Gottman's success rate in making predictions about his subjects?
90%

85%

95%

80%
9 What is the name of Gottman's book?
Marriage and Relationships

The Mathematics of Divorce

Fidelity in America

Devout Love and Temptations
10 What did the couple in the Gottman anecdote argue over?
Their dog

Their child

Their home

Their in-laws
11 Where did Samuel Gosling carry out his study about personality?
Bathroom

Dorm Room

Shopping Mall

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

Kindness

Sociability

Extraversion
13 What is the main reasons patients file medical malpractice suits?
Wrong medicine

Delayed care

Treated impersonally or badly

Inaccurate diagnosis
14 What does Gladwell say about the attainability of the ability to thin-slicing?
It requires formal psychological schooling

It can be attained by anyone

It is specific to certain professions

It is genetic
15 Who is Vic Braden?
A tennis coach

A basketball player

A professor

A world-renowned singer
16 What is the term for when a tennis player misses both serves?
Double Fault

Twin Down

Double Fail

Second Take
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 make a rookie into a star with a few instant changes

He can tell when a player is about to double fault

He is able to perfect a serve
18 What do snap judgments rely on, according to Gladwell?
The thinnest slices of experience.

An innate ability to foretell an event

The fundamentals of education

Genetics
19 How do black students perform on standardized testing when prompted to indicate their race?
Poorly

No change in performance

Fantastic

Marginally better
20 Where do Sheena Iyengar and Raymond Fisman teach?
Columbia

University of Chicago

Stanford

Vanderbilt
21 Who is Andre Agassi?
A tennis player

A football player

A baseball player

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

Mark Sullivan

Michael Goldbery

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 the inside scoop on all the prominent politicians, giving him signifiant leverage

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

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
25 Where was Harding nominated?
Philadelphia

Chicago

New Orleans

New York

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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