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Answer the following about the career and influence of the psychologist Keith Stanovich, for 10 points each.
[10e] With Richard West, Stanovich coined the terms “System 1” and “System 2” to describe automatic and deliberate modes of cognition, a framework later popularized by this author of Thinking, Fast and Slow.
ANSWER: Daniel Kahneman (“KAH-nuh-mahn”)
[10m] Stanovich researched “Matthew effects” in this process, the subject of Marshall and Newcombe’s “dual route” model. It often involves “subvocalization” and two processes described by Louis Émile Javal.
ANSWER: reading [or literacy; or descriptions of learning to read; prompt on building vocabulary or phonics by asking “as part of what broader process?”; reject “learning a language,” “language acquisition,” “learning to speak,” or equivalents]
[10h] Gordon Pennycock et al. have applied Stanovich’s theories to the susceptibility to “pseudo-profound bullshit” and fake news, partly by using evaluations of these texts to create a “bullshit receptivity scale.”
ANSWER: fake Deepak Chopra tweets [or fake Deepak Chopra quotes or fake Deepak Chopra sayings or equivalents; prompt on tweets, quotes, sayings, or equivalents by asking “whose tweets are the fake texts created from?”]
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