Micromotives and Macrobehavior Quiz | Eight Week Quiz D

Thomas Schelling
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 138 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

Micromotives and Macrobehavior Quiz | Eight Week Quiz D

Thomas Schelling
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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4: Sorting and Mixing: Race and Sex.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What social science does Schelling say sociology resembles?
(a) Paranormal psychology.
(b) Psychology.
(c) History.
(d) Economics.

2. What does Schelling say about segregation?
(a) Sometimes it is deliberate, but not always.
(b) It is generally an emotional expression of the collective unconscious.
(c) It is always at least unconsciously deliberate.
(d) It is usually harmless.

3. How does Schelling describe daylight savings time?
(a) As a self-displacing prophecy.
(b) As a self-fulfilling prophecy.
(c) As a critical mass.
(d) As a self-enforcing convention.

4. What does Schelling say is the term for a situation where two people hurt themselves and each other by making self-interested decisions?
(a) Prisoner's dilemma.
(b) The lemon model.
(c) The Spanish prisoner.
(d) The tipping-point/critical-mass model.

5. What do the laws visible in the human behavior Schelling describes lead you to expect in other cyclic processes?
(a) Latent resistances.
(b) Unexpected results.
(c) Lag time.
(d) Hidden variables.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Schelling say is an atomic pile is an example of?

2. What tool does Schelling say social scientists use to describe behaviors such as human principles and household activities?

3. What does Schelling say about balance in individual cases?

4. Under what condition, does Schelling say, would a black person feel more comfortable reading ads in a church bulletin?

5. What does Schelling say is the key to predicting whether there will be a critical mass?

(see the answer key)

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