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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following was a problem for Kahneman and Tversky in their investigations of biases and heuristics?
(a) They did not have the physical stamina to complete their research.
(b) They did not have the intellectual tools to understand what they were finding.
(c) They did not have the time to complete their research.
(d) They did not have the funding to complete their research.

2. What did Tversky and Kahneman eventually title their work about decision-making?
(a) Prospect Theory.
(b) Loss Theory.
(c) Marshall Theory.
(d) Gain Theory.

3. Where did Tversky travel to as the cease-fire took hold?
(a) The Suez Canal area.
(b) Moscow.
(c) Tel Aviv.
(d) The Sinai.

4. What kind of audience did Tversky and Kahneman have in mind when they wrote their first papers together?
(a) Economists.
(b) World leaders.
(c) Their family and friends.
(d) No particular audience.

5. Where did Tversky travel to do research in the summer of 1970?
(a) Chicago, Illinois.
(b) Eugene, Oregon.
(c) Seattle, Washington.
(d) Ann Arbor, Michigan.

6. Where did Tversky and Kahneman first go during the war in 1973 in the field?
(a) Jordan.
(b) The Sinai.
(c) Syria.
(d) Tel Aviv.

7. Where was Richard Thaler an assistant professor in 1975?
(a) Stanford University.
(b) Harvard University.
(c) University of Rochester.
(d) University of Chicago.

8. Where did Tversky spend the 1970-71 academic year?
(a) Stanford University.
(b) Princeton University.
(c) Harvard University.
(d) Yale University.

9. Who was the head of the Israeli military psychology?
(a) Marshall Fishbein.
(b) Larry Sheinbaum.
(c) Benny Shalit.
(d) Lew Goldberg.

10. Which Nobel prize-winner said that Tversky had a first-rate mind, which one could tell by listening to his lectures?
(a) Murray Gell-Mann.
(b) Marshall Mathers.
(c) Kenneth Arrow.
(d) Richard Feynman.

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

12. What did Redelmeier's experiment measuring the so-called "peak-end rule" involve?
(a) Optical exams.
(b) Blood tests.
(c) Colonoscopies.
(d) Bone breakages.

13. What did the Israeli army mistakenly think was the result of superiors praising pilots?
(a) The superiors felt worse after praising the pilots.
(b) There was no effect from the praise on the pilots' next flights.
(c) The pilots performed worse on their next flights because of the praise.
(d) The pilots performed better on their next flights due to the praise.

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

15. Once Tversky and Kahneman felt they had exhausted their research into judgment, what topic did they turn to?
(a) Empathy.
(b) Fear.
(c) Decision-making.
(d) Happiness.

Short Answer Questions

1. Kahneman felt that it was the anticipation of which of the following that affected many people's decisions?

2. What subject was Kahneman running experiments on in his Berkeley lab by the time he met Redelmeier?

3. What did Tversky and Kahneman spend the academic year 1970 - 71 doing?

4. Who coauthored the first article Tversky ever wrote about medicine?

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

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