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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. Why does Morey ultimately pass on drafting Satnam Singh?
2. What could often be heard from behind the closed door of the room Tversky and Kahneman worked in?
3. Why did Amnon Rapoport travel to North Carolina in 1961?
4. What did Tversky think he originally might want to become?
5. How much older than he was Amos Tversky's sister?
Short Essay Questions
1. In Chapter 3, how did Tversky approach the idea of physical danger from the time he was a child?
2. In Chapter 3, what general approach did Tverksy take to social science during his years in Michigan?
3. In Chapter 4, what did Kahneman say you had to study in order to study memory?
4. In Chapter 3, what was the first flight Tversky took during which he landed?
5. Who were some of Tversky's first subjects during his early experiments on decision-making?
6. In Chapter 4, how did Barbara Tversky adjust to life in Israel?
7. What was Tversky's first impression of Ward Edwards, the professor he had come to Michigan to study under?
8. Why did Morey ban the giving out of nicknames at the Houston Rockets?
9. In 2007, what was the problem with the talented basketball player Sean Williams?
10. In Chapter 3, for what action did Tversky receive the Israeli army's highest honor?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
How did Kahneman's collaboration with Tversky change the way Kahneman worked and lived - and vice versa? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your arguments.
Essay Topic 2
Why is the concept of regression to the mean so important, and often so deeply misunderstood, in the field of behavioral psychology/economics? Write an essay explaining your answers.
Essay Topic 3
Write an essay exploring the concept of anchoring as explained by Kahneman and Tversky, citing specific references to the text to help support your answers.
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