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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. What materials did researchers use to demonstrate Bayes's rule?
2. Morey said that knowledge is literally which of the following?
3. Who did Amos Tversky dedicate his PhD dissertation to?
4. Which of the following principals did Tversky set out to study/prove during his time in Michigan?
5. What used to cause Kahneman a great deal of shame as a boy in the early 1940s?
Short Essay Questions
1. What was Tversky's first impression of Ward Edwards, the professor he had come to Michigan to study under?
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. In Chapter 3, for what action did Tversky receive the Israeli army's highest honor?
5. In Chapter 2, what did Kahneman's father tell him the night before he died?
6. What was ironic about some people's perception that Daryl Morey must be a know-it-all?
7. In Chapter 3, what was the first flight Tversky took during which he landed?
8. Who were some of Tversky's first subjects during his early experiments on decision-making?
9. What was Danny Kahneman particularly known for as a lecturer?
10. In Chapter 2, what revolutionary work did Kahneman do for the Israeli army at a very young age?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Write an essay exploring the concept of anchoring as explained by Kahneman and Tversky, citing specific references to the text to help support your answers.
Essay Topic 2
In Chapter 7, why is Kahneman's and Tversky's work on uncertainty so upsetting to some historians who came to hear Tversky's lectures? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your answers.
Essay Topic 3
What role does regret play in the decision-making process, and why did Kahneman in particular believe it was such a powerful emotion? Write an essay explaining your answers.
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