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

2. 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.

3. Which theorist had offered an alternative to utility theory in the 1950s?
(a) Jonathan Keynes.
(b) Maurice Allais.
(c) Murray Gell-Mann.
(d) Richard Thaler.

4. What did Tversky and Kahneman find about many choices all decision-makers face?
(a) The choices are affected by whether or not one is a parent.
(b) The choices are often two unpleasant options.
(c) The choices are clouded by positive emotions.
(d) The choices are clouded by other people's opinions.

5. In Chapter 9, what did Kahneman say people needed in order to make a decision rather than a number?
(a) A story.
(b) A conscience.
(c) A soul.
(d) A heart.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Kahneman and Tversky discover about the soldiers' reasons for fighting?

2. Once Tversky and Kahneman felt they had exhausted their research into judgment, what topic did they turn to?

3. What theory did J. Allan Hobson refute effectively in his own research?

4. What was the compound involved in seeding hurricanes?

5. Why were governments reluctant to seeding hurricanes?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. In Chapter 6, how does Lewis describe heuristics?

5. In Chapter 7, why did Kahneman's and Tverksy's theories upset historians so much?

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

7. In Chapter 9, what touched Kahneman about Tversky's advice to him about where to sleep while they were in the area of the fighting in Israel?

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

9. In Chapter 6, what was a main feature of the way that Kahneman and Tversky worked together?

10. 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?

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