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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 did Tversky spend the 1970-71 academic year?

2. Where did Kahneman fly to meet Anne Treisman and declare her love for her in 1975?

3. In Chapter 8, what was the hospital Donald Redelmeier worked at known for?

4. What one question did Kenneth Arrow ask Tversky after his lecture in Chapter 10?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Write an essay briefly explaining Bayesian theory and explaining why Kahneman challenged Tversky's explanation of the theory so forcefully. How did Bayesian theory, in some sense, spark the beginning of the Kahneman/Tversky collaboration?

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

Kahneman and Tversky both often told interviewers and others that they found it impossible to separate and distinguish which of the ideas in their collaborative works originated with whom. What change in their working circumstances and relationship led to a clearer distinction about whose ideas were whose? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your arguments.

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