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

2. What does Schelling compare to the process of tracking the circulation of money in an economy?
(a) Rumors circulating.
(b) Musical chairs.
(c) Water's movement from the ocean to clouds to rivers to the ocean.
(d) The development and use of language.

3. What example from human psychology does Schelling contrapose to conscious choice?
(a) Instinct.
(b) Parasympathetic behavior.
(c) Hunger.
(d) Dread and awe.

4. What does Schelling say the presence of a small group of black students in a college student body does for any economic propositions about the behavior of that student body?
(a) Introduces tension and inequality.
(b) Introduces uncertainty.
(c) Introduces non-economic competition.
(d) Introduces randomness.

5. What does Schelling say distinguishes the sociologist from other scientists?
(a) He publishes in different journals.
(b) He studies himself as well as his subject.
(c) He uses non-mathematical data.
(d) He is involved in the life he is studying.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Schelling say the defines independent variable in a behavioral system?

2. What does Schelling say the measles story is an example of?

3. What does Schelling say social scientists hope to describe by characterizing a system?

4. What else does Schelling say social scientists consider in behavior modeling?

5. What natural phenomenon does Schelling compare the economy to?

Short Essay Questions

1. What aspect of the history of nuclear weapons does Schelling describe?

2. What are discrete variables and continuous variables?

3. What does Schelling mean when he says that certain behaviors have the character of mathematical "identical truisms"?

4. What is the open model, in Schelling's analysis?

5. What is a closed model, in Schelling's analysis?

6. Which U.S. presidents' decisions about nuclear weapons does Schelling describe?

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

8. What factors influence how effective a proposition is, in Schelling's analysis?

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

10. How does Schelling use mathematical formulations to express his economic models of behavior?

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