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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. As his health worsened von Neumann's ___ was one of the first things to go.
2. Who was President of the United States when the nuclear debate came to a head and a study resulted to determine how many bombs the U.S. actually had?
3. What strategy embodied some human psychology aspects according to Chapter 12?
4. What game is a cross between Deadlock and Chicken?
5. Which game is like a military confrontation where one party "beats up" on the opposing party, but runs the risk of having that opposing party decide it is better to retaliate?
Short Essay Questions
1. What were the variables of later versions of the Ohio State studies?
2. How did the tournaments operate?
3. What strategy dominated the original Ohio State studies and the later variations?
4. What four games are two-person symmetric as detailed in Chapter 11?
5. Who devised the Stag Hunt game?
6. What is Bully?
7. What happened to the initial game theory interest by the mid-1950s?
8. What is backwards induction?
9. What is the madman strategy and how does it affect the game of chicken?
10. Who is Robert Axelrod and why did he hold tournaments?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Chapter 11 details more social dilemmas and outlines differences in two classes of games - symmetric and asymmetric. What is the difference between symmetric and asymmetric games? What are examples of both? How do you play a game of Bully and how is this game a model for human conflict?
Essay Topic 2
In real life dollar auctions the author writes about how many a justifiable action, in looking back, becomes the first "defection" in an escalating dilemma. How can you penalize the first bidder for not wanting to waste the "ninety-nine cent profit?" In relation to the nuclear arms race between the United States and the Soviet Union what was the defection? Why was there a defection and how did this dilemma escalate as both sides designed more and more nuclear weapons?
Essay Topic 3
In the 1980s game theory took an unexpected turn and evolutionary game theory was born. How did this happen? What was the logic behind the development of this theory? Aspects of what disciplines were used to create this evolutionary model? How did Robert Axelrod introduce a strategy based in human psychology to the traditional problem found in game theory?
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