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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. When did Kahneman and Tversky solidify their working collaboration by?
2. Which of the following books did Kahneman like as a boy?
3. In the late 1960s, what did Kahneman help the Israeli army to do?
4. Which psychologist's work prompted Tversky to travel to Michigan to study?
5. What materials did researchers use to demonstrate Bayes's rule?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why did Morey miss out on picking the very talented Jeremy Lin for the Houston Rockets team?
2. In 2007, what was the problem with the talented basketball player Sean Williams?
3. In Chapter 2, how was Kahneman's father saved when the Nazis took him away in November 1941?
4. What event did Amos Tversky participate in in the late 1960s that drew him back into armed conflict?
5. In Chapter 3, what was Amnon Rapoport's first impression of Amos Tversky?
6. In Chapter 3, how did Tversky approach the idea of physical danger from the time he was a child?
7. Which book did Lewis publish in 2003 and what was it about?
8. What was Tversky's first impression of Ward Edwards, the professor he had come to Michigan to study under?
9. What is the common theme of the stories Lewis collects from Tversky's friends' and colleagues' recollections about him in Chapter 3?
10. In Chapter 3, for what action did Tversky receive the Israeli army's highest honor?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Write an essay discussing the meaning behind this book's title. What does "undoing" refer to?
Essay Topic 2
What role did the Israeli military play in both Tversky's and Kahneman's lives? Write an essay explaining your answer, citing specific references to the text to support your conclusions.
Essay Topic 3
Why is the concept of regression to the mean so important, and often so deeply misunderstood, in the field of behavioral psychology/economics? Write an essay explaining your answers.
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