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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 Goldberg's paper about medical judgement that Lewis mentions in Chapter 6 titled?

2. Who coauthored the first article Tversky ever wrote about medicine?

3. Why were governments reluctant to seeding hurricanes?

4. How did Paul Slovic describe Tversky's and Kahneman's way of collaborating?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

2. In Chapter 6, what was a main feature of the way that Kahneman and Tversky worked together?

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

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

5. 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?

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

7. In Chapter 8, what is one reason Redelmeier suspected Tversky seemed to have so much time to work with him on ideas and papers?

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

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

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

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

How did Kahneman's collaboration with Tversky change the way Kahneman worked and lived - and vice versa? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your arguments.

Essay Topic 3

In Chapter 10, why do both Kahneman and Tversky move to America at the same time? How do their Israeli colleagues and friends react? Write an essay explaining your answers.

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