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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part III (Chapters 6 - 8).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Kahneman determine was the real reason for the change in pilots' performance after praise or criticism?
(a) Financial hardship.
(b) Regression to the mean.
(c) Confidence.
(d) Insecurity.

2. Where were the leaders in decision analysis clustered in the early 1970s?
(a) The Sorbonne.
(b) Harvard Medical School.
(c) Oxford and Cambridge.
(d) The Stanford Research Institute.

3. What type of structure did researchers build to try to simulate the swaying at the top of the new World Trade Center?
(a) A caster room.
(b) A wind tunnel.
(c) A mechanical bull.
(d) A sway room.

4. What did Tversky and Kahneman begin to realize that people were often doing rather than making random mistakes when they formed judgments?
(a) Making mistakes based on misperception of color.
(b) Doing something fundamental to their survival.
(c) Making mistakes based on money.
(d) Doing something systematically wrong.

5. What school of psychological thought was Kahneman most attracted to as a young man?
(a) Gemeinschaft.
(b) Keynesian.
(c) Gestalt.
(d) Gesellschaft.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did the Kahnemans leave Europe?

2. In Chapter 5, how did Kahneman react to Tversky's lecture about Bayesian Theory?

3. How long did the War of Independence last?

4. What company did Kahneman's father work for in the early 1940s?

5. What was all that Daryl Morey wanted to do in life as a young man?

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