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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 ____, two-person games neither player has an advantage.

2. An organism that can adapt to changing circumstances over long periods of time has developed ____.

3. What strategy was the most successful during Axelrod's tournaments?

4. If neither person swerves in a game of chicken what happens?

5. Who was Secretary of the Navy in 1950?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did a study reveal about the available bombs in the U.S. in 1947 and 1950?

2. Who is Robert Axelrod and why did he hold tournaments?

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

4. What is SAGE and why was it developed?

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

6. In the nuclear war debate how did Francis Matthews figure?

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

8. What was an example of a public nuclear game of chicken and who was involved?

9. How did von Neumann become the Atomic Energy Commissioner?

10. How did the tournaments operate?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Chicken has two Nash equilibrium points. What are they? Why does an irrational player have an advantage in a game of chicken? Explain the game of chicken in its simplest form on a highway and as Bertrand Russell presented it in relation to nuclear war. Which of the two strategies in the game of chicken has the maximum minimum? How was this strategy used in the Cuban Missile Crisis?

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

Prisoner's Dilemma and Chicken are two social dilemmas of fundamental importance in human affairs. Why? Explain the parameters of each dilemma in relation to real life and then discuss what makes each dilemma so important to human affairs. Also, conclude with which dilemma you feel is the most important of the two in regards to human affairs, and why.

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