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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. Who was the engineer for the World Trade Center project?

2. How did Paul Slovic describe Tversky's and Kahneman's way of collaborating?

3. Where did Redelmeier grow up?

4. To whom did Tversky write to explain his reasoning for staying in the United States?

5. What feeling was regret closely linked to, according to Tversky's and Kahneman's research in Chapter 9?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Chapter 8, what was Redelmeier's impression about the differences between working with Kahneman and Tversky?

2. In Chapter 9, what is one practical change Kahneman suggested to the Israeli army based on the garbage he saw on the side of the road?

3. In Chapter 7, what mathematical principle did Kahneman find was responsible for pilots' performance after praise or criticism?

4. In Chapter 8, what is one reason Redelmeier suspected Tversky seemed to have so much time to work with him on ideas and papers?

5. In Chapter 10, what habit did Richard Thaler have when he played board games as a child and what did this indicate about his personality?

6. In 1973, why did Kahneman and Tversky rush home to Israel from the United States?

7. In Chapter 9, what touched Kahneman about Tversky's advice to him about where to sleep while they were in the area of the fighting in Israel?

8. Why did Kahneman and Tversky move to the United States at the same time in Chapter 10?

9. In Chapter 6, what did Lew Goldberg's experiments into decision-making in medicine reveal?

10. In Chapter 9, what did Tversky find when he went to the Suez Canal at the end of the conflict in 1973?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 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

What role did the Israeli military play in both Tversky's and Kahneman's lives? Write an essay explaining your answer, citing specific references to the text to support your conclusions.

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