View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was Tversky's favorite television drama?
(a) Night Court.
(b) Hill Street Blues.
(c) NYPD Blue.
(d) 21 Jump Street.

2. Which of the following was one of Tversky's and Kahneman's heuristics for judgement?
(a) Hindsight.
(b) The Halo Effect.
(c) Availability.
(d) Hunger.

3. Who was Tversky visiting in the United States in the summer of 1970?
(a) Paul Slovic.
(b) Danny Kahneman.
(c) Lewis Goldberg.
(d) Amnon Rapoport.

4. When did Kahneman and Tversky solidify their working collaboration by?
(a) Fall 1969.
(b) Summer 1960.
(c) Spring 1963.
(d) Winter 1964.

5. How did Paul Slovic describe Tversky's and Kahneman's way of collaborating?
(a) They worked almost entirely by email.
(b) They communicated mostly through hand-written letters.
(c) They talked to each other for hour after hour after hour.
(d) They worked almost entirely over the phone.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did the Kahnemans move after leaving Europe in the 1940s?

2. What publication did Tversky and Kahneman think offered them the best chance of reaching audiences outside of psychology?

3. Where did Redelmeier grow up?

4. What did Tversky and Kahneman write that people's intuitive expectations are governed by in one of their early papers?

5. Who was the psychology professor who thought Tversky's and Kahneman's early work would win a Nobel Prize in Economics?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 211 words (approx. 1 page at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample