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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 was Marc Gasol's nickname that blinded Morey and some others from seeing his true talent?

2. What did Tversky and Kahneman write that people's intuitive expectations are governed by in one of their early papers?

3. Lewis opens the book with a quote from which author?

4. What does Morey realize was one of his big mistakes with the unsuccessful player his model chose in 2008?

5. In Chapter 3, who was only 18 years old when he was identified by the Israeli army as leadership material?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why did Morey ban the giving out of nicknames at the Houston Rockets?

2. In Chapter 4, what did Kahneman say you had to study in order to study memory?

3. Who were some of Tversky's first subjects during his early experiments on decision-making?

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

5. In Chapter 3, how did Tversky approach the idea of physical danger from the time he was a child?

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

7. What is the common theme of the stories Lewis collects from Tversky's friends' and colleagues' recollections about him in Chapter 3?

8. In Chapter 3, what general approach did Tverksy take to social science during his years in Michigan?

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

10. In Chapter 5, how did Kahneman react to Tversky's lecture to his own students about Ward Edwards' work on Bayesian Theory?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Kahneman once said "No one ever made a decision because of a number They need a story" (250). Write an essay explaining what you think he meant by this statement, citing specific references to the text to help support your answers.

Essay Topic 2

How does Lewis explain the relationship between classification and stereotypes, according to Tversky's and Kahneman's work? Write an essay explaining your answers.

Essay Topic 3

Write an essay explaining the core tenants of utility theory and explain how Kahneman's and Tversky's work sought to expose the flaws within it, citing specific references to the text to help support your answers.

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