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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 name does Schelling give to the effect people have on each other's behavior?
(a) Emotional intelligence.
(b) Anxiety of influence.
(c) Archetypal intelligence.
(d) Contingent behavior.

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

3. When does Schelling say social behavior can be considered a critical mass?
(a) When social criticism is essential to defining the problem.
(b) When the behavior matches with models that were based in the physics of nuclear fission.
(c) When the behavior has to do with things sold by the pound.
(d) When the number of people exhibiting behavior is the most important factor.

4. What is the first thing Schelling says a social behavior model can be?
(a) A flow chart.
(b) A precise statement of a set of relationships.
(c) A form of accounting.
(d) A hypothetical explanation of individual's motives.

5. What does Schelling say most people will say about their driving?
(a) They are charismatic.
(b) They are average.
(c) They are better than average.
(d) They are unique.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the heating-system-like aspect of human behavior seek, in Schelling's analysis?

2. What does Schelling say a proposition has to have in order to be true?

3. What social science does Schelling say sociology resembles?

4. Why does Schelling say people tend to sit in the back of a theater?

5. How does Schelling describe a critical-mass behavior?

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