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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 did Tversky think he originally might want to become?
2. What did the Kahnemans do to pass as Christians while in hiding?
3. In Chapter 4, what did Kahneman say was necessary to study if one was interested in studying memory?
4. Where did Daryl Morey go to college?
5. Why does Kahneman remember April 27, 1944?
Short Essay Questions
1. What is the common theme of the stories Lewis collects from Tversky's friends' and colleagues' recollections about him in Chapter 3?
2. In 2007, what was the problem with the talented basketball player Sean Williams?
3. Who were some of Tversky's first subjects during his early experiments on decision-making?
4. In Chapter 4, how did Barbara Tversky adjust to life in Israel?
5. What was Danny Kahneman particularly known for as a lecturer?
6. In Chapter 3, how did Tversky approach the idea of physical danger from the time he was a child?
7. In Chapter 3, what general approach did Tverksy take to social science during his years in Michigan?
8. In Chapter 2, what did Shimon Shamir recall about Kahneman from their school days?
9. In Chapter 3, what was Amnon Rapoport's first impression of Amos Tversky?
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
In Chapter 7, why is Kahneman's and Tversky's work on uncertainty so upsetting to some historians who came to hear Tversky's lectures? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your answers.
Essay Topic 3
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?
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