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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. Kahneman felt that it was the anticipation of which of the following that affected many people's decisions?

2. In Chapter 9, why was Tversky worried about where Kahneman was sleeping?

3. Why were governments reluctant to seeding hurricanes?

4. Where did Tversky spend the 1970-71 academic year?

5. What did Tversky and Kahneman do in the war in 1973?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Chapter 8, what did Kahneman predict about people's predictions about their own happiness?

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

3. In Chapter 9, what does Kahneman identify as a central component of the experience of misery?

4. To whom did most economists usually write - Kahneman or Tversky - and why?

5. 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?

6. In Chapter 9, what was one event that made Kahneman lose faith in his and Tversky's research to change minds at a high level?

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

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

9. 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?

10. After the conflict in 1973, what topic did Tversky entice Kahneman to work with him on tackling?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How does Lewis explain the phenomenon of others in the fields of psychology and economics trying particularly hard not only to refute Kahneman's and Tversky's work, but to almost humiliate the two men in the process? Write an essay explaining your answer, citing specific references to the text to support your arguments.

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

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.

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