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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. In Chapter 4, what did Dalia Etzion say Kahneman had difficulty distinguishing between?
2. Why was Kahneman's father released from the Nazi prison camp after six weeks?
3. Where did Tversky's family move to in 1950?
4. In Chapter 4, when did Tversky return to Israel after studying in Michigan?
5. What state did Tversky leave Kahneman's seminar in in Chapter 5 that was unusual for him?
Short Essay Questions
1. In Chapter 5, how did Kahneman react to Tversky's lecture to his own students about Ward Edwards' work on Bayesian Theory?
2. Who were some of Tversky's first subjects during his early experiments on decision-making?
3. In Chapter 3, for what action did Tversky receive the Israeli army's highest honor?
4. In Chapter 2, what revolutionary work did Kahneman do for the Israeli army at a very young age?
5. In Chapter 3, what general approach did Tverksy take to social science during his years in Michigan?
6. What was ironic about some people's perception that Daryl Morey must be a know-it-all?
7. In Chapter 2, how was Kahneman's father saved when the Nazis took him away in November 1941?
8. Why did Morey miss out on picking the very talented Jeremy Lin for the Houston Rockets team?
9. In Chapter 4, what did Kahneman say you had to study in order to study memory?
10. In Chapter 4, how did Barbara Tversky adjust to life in Israel?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Why is the concept of regression to the mean so important, and often so deeply misunderstood, in the field of behavioral psychology/economics? Write an essay explaining your answers.
Essay Topic 2
What role did Tversky think the concept of similarity play in the process of decision-making, according to Tversky's beliefs and research? Write an essay explaining your answer, citing specific references to the text to help support your answers.
Essay Topic 3
How does Lewis explain the phenomenon of others in the fields of psychology and economics trying particularly hard not only to refute Kahneman's and Tversky's work, but to almost humiliate the two men in the process? Write an essay explaining your answer, citing specific references to the text to support your arguments.
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