TED Talk J.J. Abrams The Mystery Box
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Question 1 of 141. Vraag4 Points
The first four questions are vocabulary questions testing your knowledge of and/or preparing you for the words used in this TED-talk.
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Match the verbs to their meanings:- to think about
- to combine into a whole
- to give up a job
- to break or disregard
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Here’s two different futures that I invite you to contemplate
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We synthesize happiness, but we think happiness is a thing to be found.
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he resigned in disgrace
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which drives us to violate the rules either of prudence or of justice
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Question 2 of 142. Vraag3 Points
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Match the adjectives to their meanings:- making it easy for something to happen
- when a person has partly or completely lost his/her memory
- that can be changed so as to return to its original state
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Because the reversible condition is not conducive to the synthesis of happiness.
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What do they do? Well, let’s first check and make sure they’re really amnesiac.
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It’s a very small increase, and it doesn’t much matter whether they were in the reversible or irreversible condition.
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Question 3 of 143. Vraag6 Points
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Match the nouns to their meanings:- a piece of equipment that is used to show what something looks or feels like and is usually used to study something or to train somebody
- the process of changing something to fit a new situation
- an inclination, especially one that makes impartial judgment difficult
- a strong feeling of enthusiasm
- a sensible and careful attitude
- the feeling of being sorry for something bad you have done
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Flight pilots practice in flight simulators
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Human beings have this marvellous adaptation
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Something we call the impact bias, which is the tendency for the simulator to work badly.
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but none of them can deserve to be pursued with that passionate ardor which drives us to violate the rules
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which drives us to violate the rules either of prudence or of justice, or to corrupt the future tranquility of our minds,
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either by shame from the remembrance of our own folly, or by remorse for the horror of our own injustice.”
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Question 4 of 144. Vraag4 Points
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Match the nouns to their meanings:- a person in one’s family who lived a long time ago
- a person who has a paralysis of the lower half of the body with involvement of both legs
- a clear example or archetype
- something that is useful or has a useful quality
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This is a trick that none of our ancestors could do
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And a year after winning the lotto, lottery winners and paraplegics are equally happy with their lives.
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This is a 50-year-old paradigm called the free choice paradigm.
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because we have within us the capacity to manufacture the very commodity we are constantly chasing
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Question 5 of 145. Vraag5 Points
(2:09 – 3:54)
The impact bias is the tendency for peopleCorrectIncorrect -
Question 6 of 146. Vraag4 Points
(3:33 – 4:10)
How much time does it take according to a recent study to get over major life traumas and return to (a former state of) happiness?Correct 4 / 4 PuntenIncorrect / 4 Punten -
Question 7 of 147. Vraag5 Points
(4:10 – 8:07)
Jim Wright, Moreese Bickham, Harry S. Langerman and Pete Best are used by Daniel Gilbert as examples of people whoCorrectIncorrect -
Question 8 of 148. Vraag4 Points
(4:10 – 8:07) (same fragment as last question)
Match the descriptions to the persons.- was a very respectable American politician who lost everything.
- spent a very long time in prison for a crime he did not commit.
- missed out on becoming the richest man in America.
- did not become part of one of the most famous popgroups ever.
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Jim Wright
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Moreese Bickham
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Harry S. Langerman
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Pete Best
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Question 9 of 149. Vraag2 Points
(8:07 – 9:22)
Match the two kinds of happiness to their correct descriptions.- what we make when we don’t get what we wanted
- what we get when we get what we wanted
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synthetic happiness is
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natural happiness is
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Question 10 of 1410. Vraag5 Points
(9:22 – 13:47)
Dan Gilbert tells about the experiment with the Monet prints to show thatCorrectIncorrect -
Question 11 of 1411. Vraag5 Points
(13:47 – 15:00)
What is the enemy of synthetic happiness?CorrectIncorrect -
Question 12 of 1412. Vraag5 Points
(15:00 – 18:56)
The Harvard experiment makes clear that students (and by inference people in general)CorrectIncorrect -
Question 13 of 1413. Vraag7 Points
(18:56 – end)
These are the last paragraphs of Dan Gilbert’s speech. Fill in the missing words or phrases:
(Note: The Bard = William Shakespeare)-
The Bard said everything best, of course, and he’s making my point here but he’s making it hyperbolically: ”‘Tis nothing good or bad / “ It’s nice poetry, but that can’t exactly be right. Is there really nothing good or bad? Is it really the case that gall bladder surgery and a trip to Paris are just the same thing? That seems like a one-question IQ test. They can’t be exactly the same.
In more turgid prose, but closer to the truth, was the father of modern capitalism, Adam Smith, and he said this. This is worth contemplating: ”The great source of both the misery and disorders of human life seems to arise from between one permanent situation and another … Some of these situations may, no doubt, deserve to be preferred to others, but none of them can deserve to be pursued with that passionate ardor which drives us to either of prudence or of justice, or to corrupt the future tranquility of our minds, either by shame from the remembrance of our own folly, or by of our own injustice.” In other words: yes, some things are better than others.
We should have preferences that lead us into one future over another. But when those preferences drive us too hard and too fast because we have overrated the difference between these futures, we are at risk. When our , it leads us to work joyfully. When our ambition is unbounded, it leads us to lie, to cheat, to steal, to hurt others, to sacrifice things of real value. When our fears are bounded, , we’re cautious, we’re thoughtful. When our fears are unbounded and overblown, we’re reckless, and we’re cowardly.
The lesson I want to leave you with from these data is that our longings and our worries are both to some degree overblown, because we have within us the the very commodity we are constantly chasing when we choose experience.
Thank you.
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Question 14 of 1414. Vraag5 Points
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Which of the following statements about the brain are correct according to Daniel Gilbert?Correct 5 / 5 PuntenIncorrect / 5 Punten
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