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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Chapter 9, why was Tversky worried about where Kahneman was sleeping?
(a) He thought it was too near a tank and Kahneman night be crushed.
(b) He thought Kahneman would be a target for abuse from other soldiers.
(c) He thought Kahneman might get hit by a sniper's bullet.
(d) He thought Kahneman might contract pneumonia.

2. Which theorist had offered an alternative to utility theory in the 1950s?
(a) Jonathan Keynes.
(b) Maurice Allais.
(c) Richard Thaler.
(d) Murray Gell-Mann.

3. How did Paul Slovic describe Tversky's and Kahneman's way of collaborating?
(a) They talked to each other for hour after hour after hour.
(b) They worked almost entirely over the phone.
(c) They worked almost entirely by email.
(d) They communicated mostly through hand-written letters.

4. Which mathematician had published the major theory of decision-making when Tversky and Kahneman started researching it?
(a) Daniel Bernoulli.
(b) Jonathan Keynes.
(c) Harold Bayes.
(d) Leonardo DaVinci.

5. What did Tversky and Kahneman begin to realize that people were often doing rather than making random mistakes when they formed judgments?
(a) Doing something fundamental to their survival.
(b) Doing something systematically wrong.
(c) Making mistakes based on money.
(d) Making mistakes based on misperception of color.

6. What subject was Kahneman running experiments on in his Berkeley lab by the time he met Redelmeier?
(a) Happiness.
(b) Regret.
(c) Envy.
(d) Financial Hardship.

7. What type of structure did researchers build to try to simulate the swaying at the top of the new World Trade Center?
(a) A wind tunnel.
(b) A caster room.
(c) A mechanical bull.
(d) A sway room.

8. What kind of opinion did Tversky have about historians and history books?
(a) Tversky thought historians needed to work more closely with economists.
(b) Tversky thought historians needed to work more closely with fiction writers to make their writing more interesting.
(c) Tversky had great respect for historians.
(d) Tversky thought much of what was in history books was fiction created by the authors.

9. How did Kahneman change the way tank drivers were trained?
(a) He said they would learn best in trios.
(b) He said they would learn best by taking notes.
(c) He said they would learn best in pairs.
(d) He said they would learn best in bursts of 30-minute intervals.

10. What was Lew Goldberg's work known for addressing?
(a) The idea that people's consumer habits are influenced heavily by colors.
(b) The idea that expert judgments could be less reliable than algorithms.
(c) The idea that being cold makes one more likely to participate in violent acts.
(d) The idea that being hungry makes one buy more when grocery shopping.

11. In Chapter 9, what did Tversky and Kahneman briefly focus on once they despaired of changing adult minds about decision-making mistakes?
(a) Fictional books to help teach children about flaws in logical processes.
(b) Programs for elementary-aged children.
(c) Cartoon programs to help teach children about decision-making mistakes.
(d) College courses to help train parents to teach their children about flaws in decision-making processes.

12. What hypothetical problem was a classic example of a framing issue?
(a) The Asian Disease Problem.
(b) The Blue Ocean Rant.
(c) The Fleishman Problem.
(d) The Kobayashi Maru.

13. What kind of audience did Tversky and Kahneman have in mind when they wrote their first papers together?
(a) Economists.
(b) World leaders.
(c) Their family and friends.
(d) No particular audience.

14. What did Redelmeier's experiment measuring the so-called "peak-end rule" involve?
(a) Optical exams.
(b) Colonoscopies.
(c) Blood tests.
(d) Bone breakages.

15. What was Barbara Tversky doing when the war broke out in Israel in 1973?
(a) She was in the U.S. visiting family.
(b) She was cooking in a restaurant.
(c) She was on the way to the emergency room with her eldest son.
(d) She was teaching a class.

Short Answer Questions

1. What theory did J. Allan Hobson refute effectively in his own research?

2. Where did Tversky travel to as the cease-fire took hold?

3. What did Tversky hate but tolerate as a habit of Kahneman's?

4. What did Tversky like to call good ideas?

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

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