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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part V (Chapters 12 - Coda).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which computer company offered to donate machines to Stanford's Psychology Department because of Tversky?
(a) Apple.
(b) Microsoft.
(c) Asus.
(d) Toshiba.

2. What did Tversky call to tell Amos only a few days after they had a big fight in Chapter 12?
(a) He had cancer and had only about 6 months left to live.
(b) He was quitting academia.
(c) His mother had died.
(d) His wife was ill and he was moving back to Israel.

3. What did Tversky and Kahneman eventually come to label the logical fallacy they saw illustrated repeatedly in their hypothetical about a bank teller?
(a) The fashion fallacy.
(b) The emotional fallacy.
(c) The conjunction fallacy.
(d) The availability fallacy.

4. What was the only think Kahneman and his mother found in their Paris apartment after the war?
(a) Two luxurious green chairs.
(b) A wooden cupboard.
(c) Some china plates.
(d) The mother's jewelry.

5. Which British psychologist did Kahneman meet in the 1960s who he would later marry?
(a) Marion Holland.
(b) Anne Treisman.
(c) Michelle Renquoir.
(d) Clodagh Ringwald.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Tversky and Kahneman begin to realize that people were often doing rather than making random mistakes when they formed judgments?

2. Which of Tversky's former teachers publicly criticized his and Kahneman's work in the 1980s?

3. Whose research established the dangers of talking on the phone while driving?

4. In Chapter 7, how did Tversky and Kahneman classify the relationship between prediction and judgment?

5. What did Tversky like to do in the summer of 1970 as he talked through some ideas with friends?

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