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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. What subject was Kahneman running experiments on in his Berkeley lab by the time he met Redelmeier?
(a) Happiness.
(b) Regret.
(c) Financial Hardship.
(d) Envy.

2. What did Redelmeier think was odd, in hindsight, about his relationships with Tversky and Kahneman?
(a) How each man did his best work while playing basketball and discussing their ideas at the same time.
(b) How little he knew about each man's life.
(c) How little he knew about each man's educational background.
(d) How strange it was that neither man had invited him to travel to Israel.

3. How did Tversky's classmates in Michigan remember him in his earliest days there?
(a) He was quiet and attentive.
(b) He always spoke in French.
(c) He was loud and disruptive.
(d) He was largely absent from class.

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

5. What did Tversky and Kahneman write that people's intuitive expectations are governed by in one of their early papers?
(a) Fear.
(b) A consistent misperception of the world.
(c) Love.
(d) Hunger.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 6, who persuaded the National Science Foundation to allocate $60,000 to him for a behavioral science research center?

2. In Chapter 4, what did Kahneman say was necessary to study if one was interested in studying memory?

3. Which book had a big influence on Daryl Morey when he was a teenager?

4. What was Marc Gasol's nickname that blinded Morey and some others from seeing his true talent?

5. Which fellow student did Tversky have an intense relationship with in school?

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