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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 find about many choices all decision-makers face?

2. Where were the leaders in decision analysis clustered in the early 1970s?

3. In Chapter 11, at what institution was Miles Shore the Bullard Professor of Psychiatry?

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

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 did Tversky and Kahneman find out about soldiers' motivations for fighting?

2. In Chapter 9, what did Tversky find when he went to the Suez Canal at the end of the conflict in 1973?

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

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

5. To whom did most economists usually write - Kahneman or Tversky - and why?

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

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

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

9. In Chapter 8, what was Redelmeier's impression about the differences between working with Kahneman and Tversky?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Write an essay explaining what transitivity of preferences means in the context of decision-making and describe why this tenant is so important to Tversky's and Kahneman's early works.

Essay Topic 2

What role does regret play in the decision-making process, and why did Kahneman in particular believe it was such a powerful emotion? Write an essay explaining your answers.

Essay Topic 3

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.

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