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Thomas Schelling
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Micromotives and Macrobehavior Test | Mid-Book Test - Medium

Thomas Schelling
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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Schelling say social scientists hope to describe by characterizing a system?
(a) Heuristics with which to judge behavior in nature.
(b) An explanation for other phenomena that fit the same pattern.
(c) A mathematical model that accounts for all microbehavior within the phenomenon.
(d) Information about the difficulties of modeling social behavior.

2. What does Schelling say is an atomic pile is an example of?
(a) A lemon model.
(b) A half-life model.
(c) A paradoxical process.
(d) A critical-mass model.

3. What does Schelling say the "tipping" critical-mass model first described?
(a) The boom-bust cycle in economics.
(b) Political change.
(c) New ethnicities moving into neighborhoods.
(d) Dust being drizzles onto scales.

4. What does Schelling say about balance in individual cases?
(a) It is a transcendent law.
(b) It is evidence of the collective unconscious.
(c) It defines the nature of human beings.
(d) It does not exist.

5. What does Schelling say provides clear evidence of black versus white areas in American cities?
(a) History books.
(b) First-hand observation.
(c) Demography.
(d) Maps.

Short Answer Questions

1. What term does Garrett Hardin use to describe people who infringe on others by following their own desires intently?

2. What ingrained behavior does Schelling say informs the decision where to sit in a theater?

3. How does Schelling describe the system of skiers going up a lift and coming down the trails?

4. What does Schelling say the farmer needs to know?

5. What does Schelling say social conventions mediate between?

Short Essay Questions

1. What are some of the other traits Schelling says parents might be able to choose in the future?

2. Where does the equivalence of terms in an economic break down, in Schelling's analysis?

3. What natural preference does Schelling say leads to segregation of populations in American cities?

4. How does Schelling describe the role of the social scientist?

5. What is the relationship between behaviors that can be modeled and free will, in Schelling's analysis?

6. What is one consequence Schelling describes of parents being able to choose the sex of their children?

7. What distinction does Schelling draw between decisions other people have made?

8. What behavior does discrimination allow Schelling to model?

9. What methodological difficulty does Schelling see in a college where the population is 75% female, with a handful of black students?

10. How many possible genetic variations can result when two people have a baby together?

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