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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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TeamOpponentPart 1Part 2Part 3Total
Arizona StateDuke100010
Berkeley AIllinois1010020
Berkeley BHarvard100010
BrownIowa State100010
Chicago APurdue10101030
Chicago BTexas1010020
Chicago DVanderbilt1010020
Columbia BClaremont Colleges100010
Cornell AColumbia A1010020
Cornell BTruman State1010020
FloridaOttawa1010020
IndianaWUSTL A1010020
KentuckyChicago C010010
MarylandYale A1010020
McGillNorth Carolina B1010020
NYUGeorgia Tech1010020
North Carolina AMinnesota A1010020
NorthwesternMichigan1010020
PennToronto B100010
StanfordWaterloo100010
Toronto AJohns Hopkins1010020
VirginiaRutgers1010020

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TournamentEditionExact Match?HeardPPBEasy %Medium %Hard %
2024 ACF Nationals04/21/2024Y2217.2796%73%5%