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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What state did Tversky leave Kahneman's seminar in in Chapter 5 that was unusual for him?

2. Which book had a big influence on Daryl Morey when he was a teenager?

3. In Chapter 4, what did Kahneman say was necessary to study if one was interested in studying memory?

4. What did Tversky think most people paid an enormous price for?

5. Which book did Lewis publish in 2003?

Short Essay Questions

1. In 2007, what was the problem with the talented basketball player Sean Williams?

2. In Chapter 3, what was the first flight Tversky took during which he landed?

3. What did Daryl Morey think was the best path to being able to pick draft players for an NBA team?

4. In Chapter 2, what did Shimon Shamir recall about Kahneman from their school days?

5. Which book did Lewis publish in 2003 and what was it about?

6. In Chapter 3, what was Amnon Rapoport's first impression of Amos Tversky?

7. Why did Morey miss out on picking the very talented Jeremy Lin for the Houston Rockets team?

8. In Chapter 2, how did Kahneman feel about each of his parents?

9. In Chapter 2, what did Kahneman's father tell him the night before he died?

10. In Chapter 4, how did Barbara Tversky adjust to life in Israel?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What role did Tversky think the concept of similarity play in the process of decision-making, according to Tversky's beliefs and research? Write an essay explaining your answer, citing specific references to the text to help support your answers.

Essay Topic 2

In Chapter 7, why is Kahneman's and Tversky's work on uncertainty so upsetting to some historians who came to hear Tversky's lectures? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your answers.

Essay Topic 3

Write an essay explaining what transitivity of preferences means in the context of decision-making and describe why this tenant is so important to Tversky's and Kahneman's early works.

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