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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who served as the middleman in the negotiations between Israel and Syria in 1974?
(a) Bill Mitchell.
(b) Henry Kissinger.
(c) Richard Nixon.
(d) Bill Clinton.

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

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

4. What did Tversky like to do in the summer of 1970 as he talked through some ideas with friends?
(a) Play hockey.
(b) Shoot baskets.
(c) Play video games.
(d) Play soccer.

5. What did people treat all remote probabilities as, according to Tversky's and Kahneman's findings?
(a) Impossibilities.
(b) Dreams.
(c) Possibilities.
(d) Homework.

6. To whom did Tversky write to explain his reasoning for staying in the United States?
(a) Gidon Czapski.
(b) Mitchell Rodeon.
(c) Robert Scheinbaum.
(d) Marcus Samuel.

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

8. Where were the leaders in decision analysis clustered in the early 1970s?
(a) Oxford and Cambridge.
(b) The Sorbonne.
(c) The Stanford Research Institute.
(d) Harvard Medical School.

9. What one question did Kenneth Arrow ask Tversky after his lecture in Chapter 10?
(a) What can we apply from this lecture to the field of economics?
(b) What is a loss?
(c) What is the difference between regret and envy?
(d) What is a gain?

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

11. In Chapter 6, who persuaded the National Science Foundation to allocate $60,000 to him for a behavioral science research center?
(a) Marshall McLuhan.
(b) Amos Tversky.
(c) Paul Hoffman.
(d) Danny Kahneman.

12. Kahneman felt that it was the anticipation of which of the following that affected many people's decisions?
(a) Contentment.
(b) Embarrassment.
(c) Anger.
(d) Regret.

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

14. In Chapter 11, at what institution was Miles Shore the Bullard Professor of Psychiatry?
(a) Hebrew University Medical School.
(b) Princeton Medical School.
(c) Harvard Medical School.
(d) Yale Medical School.

15. What did both Tversky and Kahneman sense regarding their joint work during their year in Eugene?
(a) Growing interest in their work.
(b) Less financial opportunities for both of them.
(c) More financial opportunities for both of them.
(d) A waning interest in their work.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Redelmeier struggle with as a child?

2. What did Tversky like to call good ideas?

3. What was the title of Tversky's and Kahneman's first paper to describe how people formed judgments?

4. What did one Hebrew University official say to Tversky about him leaving Israel for the United States?

5. In Chapter 9, what did Kahneman say people needed in order to make a decision rather than a number?

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