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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 what year did North Korea invade South Korea to start the Korean War?

2. What strategy embodied some human psychology aspects according to Chapter 12?

3. In the face of major criticism game theory research shifted from a pure math focus to what?

4. Which two person game is similar to Prisoner's Dilemma except that in this game there is no reason to cooperate?

5. After WWI what did the U.S. push to develop in the hopes of gaining an edge over the Soviet Union?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. What is backwards induction?

7. What game did people think nuclear warfare modeled and why did this change?

8. What strategy dominated the original Ohio State studies and the later variations?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

In regards to the Flood-Dresher experiment the author tells a story about honor among thieves to explain the prisoner's dilemma that was first discussed in a paper authored by Flood. What was the original Flood-Dresher experiment like? What are some inherent problems with this dilemma? How can they be resolved for the best possible outcome for each player? What is the worst possible outcome for each player in this game model?

Essay Topic 2

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 3

The volunteer's dilemma is the multi-person version of a game of chicken. Explain how this works, and discuss implications of the examples provided in Chapter 10 when no one "volunteer's" or when everyone or only some of the people volunteer. What happened when a magazine ran a volunteer's dilemma experiment, inviting readers to send in cards asking for $20 to $100?

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