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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 think he wrongly passed on drafting Jeremy Lin?
2. Which team does Daryl Morey work for?
3. In Chapter 4, what did Dalia Etzion say Kahneman had difficulty distinguishing between?
4. Which institution did Kahneman return to in 1967?
5. Where did the Kahnemans move after leaving Europe in the 1940s?
Short Essay Questions
1. What was Danny Kahneman particularly known for as a lecturer?
2. In 2007, what was the problem with the talented basketball player Sean Williams?
3. What is the common theme of the stories Lewis collects from Tversky's friends' and colleagues' recollections about him in Chapter 3?
4. What event did Amos Tversky participate in in the late 1960s that drew him back into armed conflict?
5. In Chapter 3, for what action did Tversky receive the Israeli army's highest honor?
6. In Chapter 2, what did Shimon Shamir recall about Kahneman from their school days?
7. What was Tversky's first impression of Ward Edwards, the professor he had come to Michigan to study under?
8. Which book did Lewis publish in 2003 and what was it about?
9. In Chapter 4, what did Kahneman say you had to study in order to study memory?
10. In Chapter 2, how did Kahneman feel about each of his parents?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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 2
Why do you think Lewis chooses to use sports - particularly experiences picking draft players in the NBA - as a common thread running through different parts of this book? Write an essay explaining your answer.
Essay Topic 3
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.
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