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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. Where was Redelmeier accepted as a resident in 1985?

2. What kind of audience did Tversky and Kahneman have in mind when they wrote their first papers together?

3. Which of the following was a problem for Kahneman and Tversky in their investigations of biases and heuristics?

4. What did both Tversky and Kahneman sense regarding their joint work during their year in Eugene?

5. What was Goldberg's paper about medical judgement that Lewis mentions in Chapter 6 titled?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Chapter 11, what did Kahneman tell Miles Shore about one of his biggest difficulties with Tversky?

2. 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?

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. 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?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

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.

Essay Topic 3

Write an essay exploring the concept of anchoring as explained by Kahneman and Tversky, citing specific references to the text to help support your answers.

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