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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 Israeli general spoke to Tversky's high school class during Tversky's senior year?
2. Where was Tversky briefly installed as a military governor?
3. What kind of professional does Morey often hire who always seem to disappoint him?
4. Which team did Stephan Curry play for?
5. Where was Ward Edwards fired from before he moved to Michigan?
Short Essay Questions
1. In Chapter 2, how did Kahneman feel about each of his parents?
2. In Chapter 2, what did Kahneman's father tell him the night before he died?
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. What was ironic about some people's perception that Daryl Morey must be a know-it-all?
6. In Chapter 3, how did Tversky approach the idea of physical danger from the time he was a child?
7. In Chapter 5, how did Kahneman react to Tversky's lecture to his own students about Ward Edwards' work on Bayesian Theory?
8. What did Daryl Morey think was the best path to being able to pick draft players for an NBA team?
9. Why did Morey ban the giving out of nicknames at the Houston Rockets?
10. In 2007, what was the problem with the talented basketball player Sean Williams?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
How does Lewis explain the phenomenon of others in the fields of psychology and economics trying particularly hard not only to refute Kahneman's and Tversky's work, but to almost humiliate the two men in the process? Write an essay explaining your answer, citing specific references to the text to support your arguments.
Essay Topic 2
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.
Essay Topic 3
How - and when - did Kahneman lose faith in the ability of the rest of the world to accept his and Tversky's work on decision-making and judgement? Write an essay explaining your answer.
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