View a FREE sample

This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who was the engineer for the World Trade Center project?
(a) Les Robertson.
(b) Thomas Colhard.
(c) Rachel Adams.
(d) Marcus Samuelson.

2. In Chapter 9, what did Tversky and Kahneman briefly focus on once they despaired of changing adult minds about decision-making mistakes?
(a) College courses to help train parents to teach their children about flaws in decision-making processes.
(b) Programs for elementary-aged children.
(c) Cartoon programs to help teach children about decision-making mistakes.
(d) Fictional books to help teach children about flaws in logical processes.

3. What did Kahneman and Tversky discover about the soldiers' reasons for fighting?
(a) They were fighting for Zionism.
(b) They were fighting to avoid another fascist regime.
(c) They were fighting because of their hatred of the Russians.
(d) They were fighting for friends and families.

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

5. What did Tversky and Kahneman spend the academic year 1970 - 71 doing?
(a) Gathering grant money.
(b) Collecting data.
(c) Writing separate books.
(d) Researching questionnaire methods.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following did Tversky and Kahneman find that people overwhelmingly chose in gambling simulations?

2. What did Tversky like to do in the summer of 1970 as he talked through some ideas with friends?

3. What was the prevailing theory of decision-making called when Tversky and Kahneman began researching it?

4. What did Tversky and Kahneman begin to realize that people were often doing rather than making random mistakes when they formed judgments?

5. What kind of audience did Tversky and Kahneman have in mind when they wrote their first papers together?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Chapter 10, what was Kenneth Arrow's one big question for Tversky when he lectured on decision-making theory?

2. In Chapter 6, how did Kahneman say Tversky helped streamline his own thinking during the early years they worked together?

3. In Chapter 8, what was Redelmeier's impression about the differences between working with Kahneman and Tversky?

4. In Chapter 8, what did Kahneman predict about people's predictions about their own happiness?

5. In Chapter 6, what did Lew Goldberg's experiments into decision-making in medicine reveal?

6. In Chapter 9, what did Tversky find when he went to the Suez Canal at the end of the conflict in 1973?

7. In 1973, why did Kahneman and Tversky rush home to Israel from the United States?

8. In Chapter 9, what did Tversky and Kahneman find out about soldiers' motivations for fighting?

9. In Chapter 9, what is one practical change Kahneman suggested to the Israeli army based on the garbage he saw on the side of the road?

10. In Chapter 8, what is one reason Redelmeier suspected Tversky seemed to have so much time to work with him on ideas and papers?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 867 words (approx. 3 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample