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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 and Kahneman first go during the war in 1973 in the field?
2. What was the prevailing theory of decision-making called when Tversky and Kahneman began researching it?
3. Where did Tversky travel to do research in the summer of 1970?
4. In Chapter 11, at what institution was Miles Shore the Bullard Professor of Psychiatry?
5. What did Tversky and Kahneman eventually title their work about decision-making?
Short Essay Questions
1. In Chapter 10, what was Kenneth Arrow's one big question for Tversky when he lectured on decision-making theory?
2. In Chapter 6, what was a main feature of the way that Kahneman and Tversky worked together?
3. In Chapter 6, how did Kahneman say Tversky helped streamline his own thinking during the early years they worked together?
4. In Chapter 11, what did Kahneman tell Miles Shore about one of his biggest difficulties with Tversky?
5. In Chapter 8, how did Tversky's and Kahneman's work influence Donald Redelmeier?
6. 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?
7. In Chapter 9, how does Lewis describe Kahneman's and Tversky's relationship?
8. In Chapter 9, what did Tversky find when he went to the Suez Canal at the end of the conflict in 1973?
9. In Chapter 6, what surprised researchers about people's reactions to the motion in a room that simulated a swaying skyscraper?
10. In Chapter 9, what did Tversky and Kahneman find out about soldiers' motivations for fighting?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Write an essay discussing the meaning behind this book's title. What does "undoing" refer to?
Essay Topic 2
What role did Tversky think the concept of similarity play in the process of decision-making, according to Tversky's beliefs and research? Write an essay explaining your answer, citing specific references to the text to help support your answers.
Essay Topic 3
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?
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