View a FREE sample

This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What position did Tversky eventually rise to in the Israeli army?

2. Which book did Lewis publish in 2003?

3. What used to cause Kahneman a great deal of shame as a boy in the early 1940s?

4. Where did Tversky's family move to in 1950?

5. Who was the owner of the Houston Rockets when Morey was a manager there?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What did Daryl Morey think was the best path to being able to pick draft players for an NBA team?

3. In 2007, what was the problem with the talented basketball player Sean Williams?

4. Which book did Lewis publish in 2003 and what was it about?

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

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

7. In Chapter 3, what was the first flight Tversky took during which he landed?

8. What event did Amos Tversky participate in in the late 1960s that drew him back into armed conflict?

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

10. In Chapter 4, how did Barbara Tversky adjust to life in Israel?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What did Kahneman's and Tversky's work reveal about the role of stereotypes in judgement and decision-making? Write an essay explaining your answers.

Essay Topic 2

Write an essay briefly explaining Bayesian theory and explaining why Kahneman challenged Tversky's explanation of the theory so forcefully. How did Bayesian theory, in some sense, spark the beginning of the Kahneman/Tversky collaboration?

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.

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 623 words (approx. 3 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample