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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 like to do in the summer of 1970 as he talked through some ideas with friends?

2. What did Tversky like to call good ideas?

3. Why were governments reluctant to seeding hurricanes?

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

5. What publication did Tversky and Kahneman think offered them the best chance of reaching audiences outside of psychology?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. In Chapter 10, what was Kenneth Arrow's one big question for Tversky when he lectured on decision-making theory?

3. In Chapter 8, how did Tversky's and Kahneman's work influence Donald Redelmeier?

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

5. In Chapter 9, how does Lewis describe Kahneman's and Tversky's relationship?

6. In Chapter 9, what did Tversky and Khaneman uncover about a main motivating factor in the decision-making process?

7. In Chapter 9, what did Tversky and Kahneman find out about soldiers' motivations for fighting?

8. In Chapter 7, why did Kahneman's and Tverksy's theories upset historians so much?

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

10. In Chapter 6, how does Lewis describe heuristics?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Kahneman once said "No one ever made a decision because of a number They need a story" (250). Write an essay explaining what you think he meant by this statement, 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 Tversky think the concept of similarity play in the process of decision-making, according to Tversky's beliefs and research? Write an essay explaining your answer, citing specific references to the text to help support your answers.

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