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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3: Thermostats, Lemons, and Other Families of Models.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Schelling use his lecture to an audience of 800 people to illustrate?
(a) Economic theories of entertainment.
(b) Spatial distribution.
(c) Randomness.
(d) Group dynamics.

2. What does Schelling say is the key to predicting whether there will be a critical mass?
(a) Modeling the undesirability of the decision being weighed.
(b) Defining the number that will constitute the critical mass.
(c) Articulating the fears that surround the decision in the collective unconscious.
(d) Knowing why people delay their decisions.

3. What does Schelling say the defines independent variable in a behavioral system?
(a) The sum of the dependent variables in parallel systems.
(b) The sum of the independent variables in linked systems.
(c) The imp of the perverse.
(d) The sum of the dependent variables.

4. What does Schelling say individuals react to?
(a) Their own stimuli.
(b) The desire of the mass.
(c) The fear of the mass.
(d) The collective unconscious.

5. What does Schelling say people have a tendency to do?
(a) Be honest.
(b) Put others down.
(c) Hide from unpleasant facts.
(d) Put themselves in good positions.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Schelling say social conventions mediate between?

2. How does Schelling describe a decision such as choosing a seat in a theater?

3. What does Schelling say Hardin based his research on?

4. What does Schelling say the presence of a small group of black students in a college student body does for any economic propositions about the behavior of that student body?

5. What is the first thing Schelling says a social behavior model can be?

(see the answer key)

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