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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. What subject was Kahneman running experiments on in his Berkeley lab by the time he met Redelmeier?

2. Who coauthored the first article Tversky ever wrote about medicine?

3. What book did Richard Thaler's father ask him to copy lines from when he was a child?

4. What did Kahneman determine was the real reason for the change in pilots' performance after praise or criticism?

5. In Chapter 9, what did Tversky and Kahneman briefly focus on once they despaired of changing adult minds about decision-making mistakes?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Chapter 8, what is one reason Redelmeier suspected Tversky seemed to have so much time to work with him on ideas and papers?

2. Why did Kahneman and Tversky move to the United States at the same time in Chapter 10?

3. To whom did most economists usually write - Kahneman or Tversky - and why?

4. In Chapter 9, what does Kahneman identify as a central component of the experience of misery?

5. In Chapter 9, what was one event that made Kahneman lose faith in his and Tversky's research to change minds at a high level?

6. In Chapter 8, how did Tversky's and Kahneman's work influence Donald Redelmeier?

7. In Chapter 6, how does Lewis describe heuristics?

8. In Chapter 9, what did Tversky and Kahneman find out about soldiers' motivations for fighting?

9. In Chapter 11, what did Kahneman tell Miles Shore about one of his biggest difficulties with Tversky?

10. In Chapter 7, what mathematical principle did Kahneman find was responsible for pilots' performance after praise or criticism?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Kahneman and Tversky both often told interviewers and others that they found it impossible to separate and distinguish which of the ideas in their collaborative works originated with whom. What change in their working circumstances and relationship led to a clearer distinction about whose ideas were whose? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your arguments.

Essay Topic 2

Write an essay discussing the meaning behind this book's title. What does "undoing" refer to?

Essay Topic 3

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.

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