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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. Which fellow student did Tversky have an intense relationship with in school?
2. What did Tversky think most people paid an enormous price for?
3. Where did the Kahnemans move after leaving Europe in the 1940s?
4. Which of the following principals did Tversky set out to study/prove during his time in Michigan?
5. What materials did researchers use to demonstrate Bayes's rule?
Short Essay Questions
1. In Chapter 4, what did Kahneman say you had to study in order to study memory?
2. In Chapter 3, what general approach did Tverksy take to social science during his years in Michigan?
3. What was Danny Kahneman particularly known for as a lecturer?
4. Why did Morey ban the giving out of nicknames at the Houston Rockets?
5. In Chapter 2, what did Kahneman's father tell him the night before he died?
6. What is the common theme of the stories Lewis collects from Tversky's friends' and colleagues' recollections about him in Chapter 3?
7. Why did Morey miss out on picking the very talented Jeremy Lin for the Houston Rockets team?
8. Who were some of Tversky's first subjects during his early experiments on decision-making?
9. In Chapter 3, for what action did Tversky receive the Israeli army's highest honor?
10. In Chapter 3, how did Tversky approach the idea of physical danger from the time he was a child?
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
What role did the Israeli military play in both Tversky's and Kahneman's lives? Write an essay explaining your answer, citing specific references to the text to support your conclusions.
Essay Topic 3
In Chapter 10, why do both Kahneman and Tversky move to America at the same time? How do their Israeli colleagues and friends react? Write an essay explaining your answers.
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