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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 was the compound involved in seeding hurricanes?
2. What publication did Tversky and Kahneman think offered them the best chance of reaching audiences outside of psychology?
3. Where was Richard Thaler an assistant professor in 1975?
4. Where were the leaders in decision analysis clustered in the early 1970s?
5. Who was the head of the Israeli military psychology?
Short Essay Questions
1. In Chapter 8, how did Tversky's and Kahneman's work influence Donald Redelmeier?
2. In Chapter 7, what mathematical principle did Kahneman find was responsible for pilots' performance after praise or criticism?
3. To whom did most economists usually write - Kahneman or Tversky - and why?
4. 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?
5. In Chapter 8, what was Redelmeier's impression about the differences between working with Kahneman and Tversky?
6. In Chapter 6, how did Kahneman say Tversky helped streamline his own thinking during the early years they worked together?
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, how does Lewis describe Kahneman's and Tversky's relationship?
9. 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?
10. In Chapter 6, how does Lewis describe heuristics?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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 2
Why do you think Lewis chooses to use sports - particularly experiences picking draft players in the NBA - as a common thread running through different parts of this book? Write an essay explaining your answer.
Essay Topic 3
Write an essay discussing the meaning behind this book's title. What does "undoing" refer to?
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