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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 introduced the term "affective forecasting"?

2. Who coined the term "Econs and Humans"?

3. Who is the intellectual leader of an association of scholars against the author's works who call themselves NDM's?

4. Who is the author of Clinical vs. Statistical Prediction: A Theoretical Analysis and a Review of the Evidence?

5. Who wrote the article "The Robust Beauty of Improper Linear Models in Decision Making"?

Short Essay Questions

1. What two different meanings does the author attribute to the word utility in Chapter 35?

2. What findings were published in "Money, Kisses, and Electric Shocks: On the Affective Psychology of Risk"?

3. Wht is duration neglect?

4. What is a correlations coefficient?

5. What does "hedonimeter" refer to?

6. What did Tversky and Kahneman conclude in their study of pain during medical procedures?

7. What is the principle of diminishing sensitivity?

8. How does the author suggest a person should go about hiring a sales representative for his firm using algorhythms?

9. How does the author assert terrorism works in Chapter 30?

10. What is a framing effect?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What is prospect theory? What are the principles of prospect theory? How does the model of prospect theory differ from normative models?

Essay Topic 2

How are normalcy and the capacity for surprise defined and analyzed in "Assessing Normalcy"? To which system of thought does each apply? What happens when several surprises happen in succession of one another?

Essay Topic 3

What is the halo effect? How does the author demonstrate the halo effect through examples in the text? How would the halo effect come into place when interviewing potential employees for a position?

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