The Undoing Project Quiz | Eight Week Quiz E

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The Undoing Project Quiz | Eight Week Quiz E

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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part IV (Chapters 9 - 11).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following did Tversky and Kahneman find that people overwhelmingly chose in gambling simulations?
(a) A sure loss over a sure gain.
(b) A sure smaller gain over a possible larger gain.
(c) A large amount of money over a small amount of money.
(d) A loss for a friend over a loss for oneself.

2. What was Lew Goldberg's work known for addressing?
(a) The idea that being cold makes one more likely to participate in violent acts.
(b) The idea that people's consumer habits are influenced heavily by colors.
(c) The idea that expert judgments could be less reliable than algorithms.
(d) The idea that being hungry makes one buy more when grocery shopping.

3. What kind of opinion did Tversky have about historians and history books?
(a) Tversky thought historians needed to work more closely with economists.
(b) Tversky thought historians needed to work more closely with fiction writers to make their writing more interesting.
(c) Tversky thought much of what was in history books was fiction created by the authors.
(d) Tversky had great respect for historians.

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

5. Why was Kahneman's father released from the Nazi prison camp after six weeks?
(a) He had connections in the French government.
(b) His employer, Eugene Schueller, asked for his release.
(c) His wife lobbied for his safe return.
(d) His child begged for his release.

Short Answer Questions

1. What school of psychological thought was Kahneman most attracted to as a young man?

2. When did the Kahnemans leave Europe?

3. How did Tversky's classmates in Michigan remember him in his earliest days there?

4. What did many people who knew Tversky remember most about him?

5. Once Tversky and Kahneman felt they had exhausted their research into judgment, what topic did they turn to?

(see the answer key)

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