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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 served as the middleman in the negotiations between Israel and Syria in 1974?

2. Which of the following was one of Tversky's and Kahneman's heuristics for judgement?

3. What did Redelmeier's experiment measuring the so-called "peak-end rule" involve?

4. What did Tversky hate but tolerate as a habit of Kahneman's?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. 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?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What did Kahneman's and Tversky's work reveal about the role of stereotypes in judgement and decision-making? Write an essay explaining your answers.

Essay Topic 2

How - and when - did Kahneman lose faith in the ability of the rest of the world to accept his and Tversky's work on decision-making and judgement? Write an essay explaining your answer.

Essay Topic 3

What role does regret play in the decision-making process, and why did Kahneman in particular believe it was such a powerful emotion? Write an essay explaining your answers.

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