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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What type of structure did researchers build to try to simulate the swaying at the top of the new World Trade Center?
(a) A wind tunnel.
(b) A mechanical bull.
(c) A caster room.
(d) A sway room.

2. What was the title of Tversky's and Kahneman's first paper to describe how people formed judgments?
(a) Heuristics: A Primer.
(b) The March of Time in Eugene.
(c) Who Will Choose the Pickle?
(d) Subjective Probability: A Judgment of Representativeness.

3. What did Redelmeier struggle with as a child?
(a) Polio.
(b) Blindness.
(c) A speech impediment.
(d) Eczema.

4. Where did Redelmeier grow up?
(a) San Francisco.
(b) Beijing.
(c) Toronto.
(d) Tokyo.

5. What did the Israeli army mistakenly think was the result of superiors praising pilots?
(a) The pilots performed better on their next flights due to the praise.
(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 superiors felt worse after praising the pilots.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which theorist had offered an alternative to utility theory in the 1950s?

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

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

4. Which mathematician had published the major theory of decision-making when Tversky and Kahneman started researching it?

5. Why were governments reluctant to seeding hurricanes?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Chapter 11, what did Kahneman tell Miles Shore about one of his biggest difficulties with Tversky?

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

3. Why did Kahneman and Tversky move to the United States at the same time in Chapter 10?

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

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

6. After the conflict in 1973, what topic did Tversky entice Kahneman to work with him on tackling?

7. In Chapter 9, what did Tversky and Khaneman uncover about a main motivating factor in the decision-making process?

8. In Chapter 9, how does Lewis describe Kahneman's and Tversky's relationship?

9. In Chapter 6, what surprised researchers about people's reactions to the motion in a room that simulated a swaying skyscraper?

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

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