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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3: Thermostats, Lemons, and Other Families of Models.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Schelling describe daylight savings time?
(a) As a self-displacing prophecy.
(b) As a critical mass.
(c) As a self-enforcing convention.
(d) As a self-fulfilling prophecy.

2. How does Schelling describe the Golden Gate Bridge?
(a) As an open system.
(b) As a static equilibrium.
(c) As a closed system.
(d) As a semi-closed system.

3. How does the heating system parallel human behavior in Schelling's example?
(a) A voice distributes its energy into the environment around it.
(b) A rising variable alternatively over and under performs.
(c) A trait becomes more and more intense until it expresses itself in heat.
(d) A vessel carries whatever hot or cold air or water runs through it.

4. What case does Schelling use to illustrate the difficulty of making an economic proposition?
(a) Ending the draft.
(b) Raising the draft age.
(c) Lowering the drinking age.
(d) Raising the drinking age.

5. What is the first thing Schelling says a social behavior model can be?
(a) A hypothetical explanation of individual's motives.
(b) A form of accounting.
(c) A precise statement of a set of relationships.
(d) A flow chart.

Short Answer Questions

1. What example from human psychology does Schelling contrapose to conscious choice?

2. What does Schelling say individual behaviors have in economic analysis?

3. What does Schelling say governs each decision?

4. How many calls does the individual receive, in the aggregate, in Schelling's analysis?

5. What does Schelling say a doctor administering measles vaccines found, that illustrates the human behavior Schelling is describing?

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