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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Where did the Kahnemans move after leaving Europe in the 1940s?
(a) Russia.
(b) Palestine.
(c) America.
(d) China.
2. What was Tversky's favorite television drama?
(a) Hill Street Blues.
(b) Night Court.
(c) 21 Jump Street.
(d) NYPD Blue.
3. What is hindsight bias?
(a) People's tendency to think they know more than they do before an event.
(b) People's tendency to like big numbers over small ones.
(c) People's tendency to blame their family members after the fact of an event.
(d) People's tendency to look at an outcome and assume it was predictable all along.
4. What did Tversky think most people paid an enormous price for?
(a) Love.
(b) Avoiding mild embarrassment.
(c) Bearing grudges.
(d) Financial security.
5. What kind of professional does Morey often hire who always seem to disappoint him?
(a) Writers.
(b) Psychologists.
(c) Doctors.
(d) Lawyers.
Short Answer Questions
1. What did Tversky and Kahneman write that people's intuitive expectations are governed by in one of their early papers?
2. Which very large player does Morey's team meet in 2015 as a potential draft pick?
3. What state did Tversky leave Kahneman's seminar in in Chapter 5 that was unusual for him?
4. Which institution did Kahneman return to in 1967?
5. In Chapter 4, when did Tversky return to Israel after studying in Michigan?
Short Essay Questions
1. What was Tversky's first impression of Ward Edwards, the professor he had come to Michigan to study under?
2. What was Danny Kahneman particularly known for as a lecturer?
3. In Chapter 2, what did Kahneman's father tell him the night before he died?
4. In Chapter 4, what did Kahneman say you had to study in order to study memory?
5. In Chapter 2, how did Kahneman feel about each of his parents?
6. Which book did Lewis publish in 2003 and what was it about?
7. In Chapter 3, what general approach did Tverksy take to social science during his years in Michigan?
8. Why did Morey miss out on picking the very talented Jeremy Lin for the Houston Rockets team?
9. In Chapter 2, what revolutionary work did Kahneman do for the Israeli army at a very young age?
10. Who were some of Tversky's first subjects during his early experiments on decision-making?
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