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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. In Chapter 8, where did Donald Redelmeier work?
2. Which mathematician had published the major theory of decision-making when Tversky and Kahneman started researching it?
3. Where was Richard Thaler an assistant professor in 1975?
4. In Chapter 11, at what institution was Miles Shore the Bullard Professor of Psychiatry?
5. Where did Tversky travel to as the cease-fire took hold?
Short Essay Questions
1. In Chapter 8, what did Kahneman predict about people's predictions about their own happiness?
2. In Chapter 11, what did Kahneman tell Miles Shore about one of his biggest difficulties with Tversky?
3. In Chapter 8, how did Tversky's and Kahneman's work influence Donald Redelmeier?
4. In Chapter 9, how does Lewis describe Kahneman's and Tversky's relationship?
5. In Chapter 6, what surprised researchers about people's reactions to the motion in a room that simulated a swaying skyscraper?
6. To whom did most economists usually write - Kahneman or Tversky - and why?
7. In Chapter 8, what was Redelmeier's impression about the differences between working with Kahneman and Tversky?
8. In 1973, why did Kahneman and Tversky rush home to Israel from the United States?
9. In Chapter 8, what is one reason Redelmeier suspected Tversky seemed to have so much time to work with him on ideas and papers?
10. In Chapter 6, how does Lewis describe heuristics?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
What role did the Israeli military play in both Tversky's and Kahneman's lives? Write an essay explaining your answer, citing specific references to the text to support your conclusions.
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 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.
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