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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 and Kahneman eventually title their work about decision-making?

2. What was Barbara Tversky doing when the war broke out in Israel in 1973?

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

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

5. What did people treat all remote probabilities as, according to Tversky's and Kahneman's findings?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. In Chapter 9, what is one practical change Kahneman suggested to the Israeli army based on the garbage he saw on the side of the road?

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

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

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

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

10. 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?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

In Chapter 7, why is Kahneman's and Tversky's work on uncertainty so upsetting to some historians who came to hear Tversky's lectures? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your answers.

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 discussing the meaning behind this book's title. What does "undoing" refer to?

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