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

2. What did Kahneman determine was the real reason for the change in pilots' performance after praise or criticism?
(a) Financial hardship.
(b) Insecurity.
(c) Regression to the mean.
(d) Confidence.

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

4. Who was the original owner of the World Trade Center?
(a) Newark Transport Authority.
(b) New Jersey Airport.
(c) New York Port Authority.
(d) Pennsylvania Transport Authority.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Tversky and Kahneman eventually title their work about decision-making?

2. What kind of opinion did Tversky have about historians and history books?

3. What subject was Kahneman running experiments on in his Berkeley lab by the time he met Redelmeier?

4. Who served as the middleman in the negotiations between Israel and Syria in 1974?

5. What did Tversky and Kahneman find about many choices all decision-makers face?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Chapter 6, what surprised researchers about people's reactions to the motion in a room that simulated a swaying skyscraper?

2. In Chapter 8, what is one reason Redelmeier suspected Tversky seemed to have so much time to work with him on ideas and papers?

3. In Chapter 6, how does Lewis describe heuristics?

4. In Chapter 7, why did Kahneman's and Tverksy's theories upset historians so much?

5. In Chapter 6, how did Kahneman say Tversky helped streamline his own thinking during the early years they worked together?

6. After the conflict in 1973, what topic did Tversky entice Kahneman to work with him on tackling?

7. To whom did most economists usually write - Kahneman or Tversky - and why?

8. In Chapter 9, what was one event that made Kahneman lose faith in his and Tversky's research to change minds at a high level?

9. In Chapter 6, what did Lew Goldberg's experiments into decision-making in medicine reveal?

10. In Chapter 8, how did Tversky's and Kahneman's work influence Donald Redelmeier?

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