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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. As Ohio State subjects were allowed to meet and discuss strategy in the original studies, what strategy dominated play?

2. In which game is defection the best strategy for either player?

3. In what year did the U.S. get good evidence of Soviet nuclear capability?

4. In the 1980s who took game theory into unexpected territory according to details in Chapter 12?

5. What General believed it was justified to use nuclear weapons in Korea to prevent a North Korean and Chinese victory?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is backwards induction?

2. How did evolutionary game theory come about?

3. Who publicly disavowed preemptive war after publicly advocating for so long?

4. What is SAGE and why was it developed?

5. What happened to the initial game theory interest by the mid-1950s?

6. What four games are two-person symmetric as detailed in Chapter 11?

7. In relation to U.S. bomb development who was Harold Urey?

8. What is the tit-for-tat strategy?

9. What were the variables of later versions of the Ohio State studies?

10. What is Bully?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Douglas Hofstadter invented the largest-number game. This lottery luring game was concluded to be a hopeless situation. What did this game involve and what were some examples of this game in Chapter 13? What were some common problems and/or complaints about this game? Why was this game concluded to be a hopeless situation?

Essay Topic 2

Chapter 11 details more social dilemmas and outlines differences in two classes of games - symmetric and asymmetric. What is the difference between symmetric and asymmetric games? What are examples of both? How do you play a game of Bully and how is this game a model for human conflict?

Essay Topic 3

Why are Prisoner's Dilemma, Chicken, Deadlock, and Stag Hunt, all called social dilemmas? Why is the prisoner's dilemma considered the center of gravity for the other three games in relation to pay offs? Be sure to include how switching two of the pay offs in the order of preference helps derive each of the three games from the prisoner's dilemma.

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