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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. Who was the head of the Israeli military psychology?

2. Once Tversky and Kahneman felt they had exhausted their research into judgment, what topic did they turn to?

3. Who was in charge of Israel's Ministry of Foreign Affairs that asked Kahneman for help in 1974?

4. What was the title of Tversky's and Kahneman's first paper to describe how people formed judgments?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. 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?

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

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

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

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

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

8. In Chapter 6, what surprised researchers about people's reactions to the motion in a room that simulated a swaying skyscraper?

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

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

Kahneman once said "No one ever made a decision because of a number They need a story" (250). Write an essay explaining what you think he meant by this statement, 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

How - and when - did Kahneman lose faith in the ability of the rest of the world to accept his and Tversky's work on decision-making and judgement? Write an essay explaining your answer.

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