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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did the Israeli army mistakenly think was the result of superiors praising pilots?
(a) The pilots performed worse on their next flights because of the praise.
(b) The superiors felt worse after praising the pilots.
(c) There was no effect from the praise on the pilots' next flights.
(d) The pilots performed better on their next flights due to the praise.

2. 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 by email.
(c) They communicated mostly through hand-written letters.
(d) They worked almost entirely over the phone.

3. Where was Redelmeier accepted as a resident in 1985?
(a) Stanford.
(b) Yale.
(c) Harvard.
(d) Thomas Jefferson University.

4. What book did Richard Thaler's father ask him to copy lines from when he was a child?
(a) The Chariots of Fire.
(b) A Tale of Two Cities.
(c) The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.
(d) The Jungle.

5. What did Redelmeier say Kahneman was more likely to see in his own work than Tversky was able to see in his own work?
(a) What was wrong with it.
(b) How others would likely criticize it.
(c) How it could be applied in the real world.
(d) How much money it would generate for the different universities.

6. Who was Tversky visiting in the United States in the summer of 1970?
(a) Amnon Rapoport.
(b) Paul Slovic.
(c) Lewis Goldberg.
(d) Danny Kahneman.

7. 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 systematically wrong.
(b) Doing something fundamental to their survival.
(c) Making mistakes based on money.
(d) Making mistakes based on misperception of color.

8. Which of the following was one of Tversky's and Kahneman's heuristics for judgement?
(a) Availability.
(b) Hunger.
(c) The Halo Effect.
(d) Hindsight.

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

10. What did Tversky and Kahneman eventually title their work about decision-making?
(a) Marshall Theory.
(b) Prospect Theory.
(c) Loss Theory.
(d) Gain Theory.

11. What theory did J. Allan Hobson refute effectively in his own research?
(a) The Keynesian theory of economics.
(b) The Freudian idea that dreams arose from unconscious desires.
(c) Game theory.
(d) The theory of regret in relation to gains.

12. Where did Tversky and Kahneman first go during the war in 1973 in the field?
(a) Tel Aviv.
(b) Syria.
(c) Jordan.
(d) The Sinai.

13. What problem was Redelmeier most concerned about in hospitals?
(a) Overcharging.
(b) Preventable infections.
(c) Lack of staff.
(d) Clinical misjudgment.

14. Once Tversky and Kahneman felt they had exhausted their research into judgment, what topic did they turn to?
(a) Happiness.
(b) Empathy.
(c) Fear.
(d) Decision-making.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the title of Tversky's and Kahneman's first paper to describe how people formed judgments?

2. Why were governments reluctant to seeding hurricanes?

3. In Oregon, where did Tversky and Kahneman find an office to work together in?

4. What type of structure did researchers build to try to simulate the swaying at the top of the new World Trade Center?

5. How did Kahneman change the way tank drivers were trained?

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