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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 theory did J. Allan Hobson refute effectively in his own research?
(a) The Freudian idea that dreams arose from unconscious desires.
(b) The theory of regret in relation to gains.
(c) The Keynesian theory of economics.
(d) Game theory.

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

3. 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 being cold makes one more likely to participate in violent acts.
(c) The idea that being hungry makes one buy more when grocery shopping.
(d) The idea that people's consumer habits are influenced heavily by colors.

4. What did Tversky and Kahneman begin to realize that people were often doing rather than making random mistakes when they formed judgments?
(a) Making mistakes based on misperception of color.
(b) Doing something systematically wrong.
(c) Making mistakes based on money.
(d) Doing something fundamental to their survival.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Where did Tversky and Kahneman first go during the war in 1973 in the field?

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

4. What was Goldberg's paper about medical judgement that Lewis mentions in Chapter 6 titled?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. In Chapter 10, what habit did Richard Thaler have when he played board games as a child and what did this indicate about his personality?

2. In Chapter 9, what does Kahneman identify as a central component of the experience of misery?

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

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

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

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 Chapter 8, how did Tversky's and Kahneman's work influence Donald Redelmeier?

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

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

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

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