Micromotives and Macrobehavior Quiz | Eight Week Quiz F

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 F

Thomas Schelling
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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7: Hockey Helmets, Daylight Saving, and Other Binary Choices.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the heating-system-like aspect of human behavior seek, in Schelling's analysis?
(a) Emptiness.
(b) An appropriate level.
(c) Perpetual comfort.
(d) Relief from tension.

2. What example does Schelling use to show discrimination in an atypical light?
(a) Buying a foreign car because it has good gas mileage.
(b) Driving home the long way to avoid the highway.
(c) Shopping in a store that has fresh produce.
(d) Taking a friend of another race to dinner.

3. What does Schelling say provides clear evidence of black versus white areas in American cities?
(a) First-hand observation.
(b) Maps.
(c) Demography.
(d) History books.

4. How do people affect each other's decisions where to sit in theater?
(a) Early arrivals sit in back, then the rest fill from the rear.
(b) Theatres fill from the back-middle to the front and then to the back.
(c) Theatres fill randomly.
(d) Theatres fill from the middle to the sides and back.

5. When does Schelling say social behavior can be considered a critical mass?
(a) When the behavior has to do with things sold by the pound.
(b) When the number of people exhibiting behavior is the most important factor.
(c) When the behavior matches with models that were based in the physics of nuclear fission.
(d) When social criticism is essential to defining the problem.

Short Answer Questions

1. What name does Schelling give to the effect people have on each other's behavior?

2. What does the success of a binary choice model depend on, in Schelling's analysis?

3. What does Schelling say about binary choices?

4. What is a binary choice?

5. How does Schelling say family size would be affected by his hypothetical case?

(see the answer key)

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