Micromotives and Macrobehavior Quiz | Eight Week Quiz C

Thomas Schelling
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 138 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

Micromotives and Macrobehavior Quiz | Eight Week Quiz C

Thomas Schelling
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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. What does Schelling say governs each decision?
(a) Longing and fear.
(b) The collective unconscious.
(c) Dread and awe.
(d) Preferences and goals.

2. What does Schelling use his lecture to an audience of 800 people to illustrate?
(a) Group dynamics.
(b) Economic theories of entertainment.
(c) Randomness.
(d) Spatial distribution.

3. What does the heating-system-like aspect of human behavior seek, in Schelling's analysis?
(a) Relief from tension.
(b) An appropriate level.
(c) Emptiness.
(d) Perpetual comfort.

4. What does Schelling say social conventions mediate between?
(a) Violence and the threat of punishment.
(b) Desire and restraint.
(c) Individual interest and collective purpose.
(d) Order and chaos.

5. What does Schelling say is the term for a situation where two people hurt themselves and each other by making self-interested decisions?
(a) The tipping-point/critical-mass model.
(b) The Spanish prisoner.
(c) The lemon model.
(d) Prisoner's dilemma.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Schelling say Hardin based his research on?

2. What does Schelling say has to be closely attended to, in economic analysis?

3. In Schelling's analysis, what behavior governs the people filling the theater?

4. What social science does Schelling say sociology resembles?

5. What does Schelling say is the key to predicting whether there will be a critical mass?

(see the answer key)

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