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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part V (Chapters 12 - Coda).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which computer company offered to donate machines to Stanford's Psychology Department because of Tversky?
(a) Toshiba.
(b) Asus.
(c) Apple.
(d) Microsoft.

2. What feeling was regret closely linked to, according to Tversky's and Kahneman's research in Chapter 9?
(a) Disliking one's spouse.
(b) Feeling anger towards a parent.
(c) Hurting someone else's feelings.
(d) Coming close to some goal or desire but not achieving it.

3. What did Barbara Tversky say Amos Tversky's and Kahneman's phone calls were like?
(a) A divorce.
(b) A funeral.
(c) An Irish wake.
(d) A parade.

4. What dream did Kahneman tell Tvresky he had while they were both in New York together in the early 1990s?
(a) That he was having a heart attack.
(b) That he had fallen off a cliff.
(c) That his wife had died.
(d) That he only had six months to live.

5. Who coauthored the first article Tversky ever wrote about medicine?
(a) Danny Kahneman.
(b) Hal Sox.
(c) Don Redelmeier.
(d) Lew Goldberg.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the late 1960s, what did Kahneman help the Israeli army to do?

2. What did Tversky and Kahneman eventually come to label the logical fallacy they saw illustrated repeatedly in their hypothetical about a bank teller?

3. Where was Redelmeier accepted as a resident in 1985?

4. What does Lewis say that Kahneman's volatility was for Danny?

5. Morey said that knowledge is literally which of the following?

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