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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 did Kahneman and Tversky discover about the soldiers' reasons for fighting?

2. What was the compound involved in seeding hurricanes?

3. In Chapter 9, what does Lewis say Kahneman's and Tversky's relationship was like in every way other than sexually?

4. What did Kahneman determine was the real reason for the change in pilots' performance after praise or criticism?

5. Why were governments reluctant to seeding hurricanes?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Chapter 9, what does Kahneman identify as a central component of the experience of misery?

2. In Chapter 11, what did Kahneman tell Miles Shore about one of his biggest difficulties with Tversky?

3. 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?

4. In Chapter 9, what did Tversky and Khaneman uncover about a main motivating factor in the decision-making process?

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

6. In Chapter 8, what was Redelmeier's impression about the differences between working with Kahneman and Tversky?

7. In 1973, why did Kahneman and Tversky rush home to Israel from the United States?

8. In Chapter 6, what was a main feature of the way that Kahneman and Tversky worked together?

9. In Chapter 7, what mathematical principle did Kahneman find was responsible for pilots' performance after praise or criticism?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Write an essay explaining what transitivity of preferences means in the context of decision-making and describe why this tenant is so important to Tversky's and Kahneman's early works.

Essay Topic 2

Write an essay explaining the core tenants of utility theory and explain how Kahneman's and Tversky's work sought to expose the flaws within it, citing specific references to the text to help support your answers.

Essay Topic 3

Why do you think Kahneman and Tversky, at one point, switched from focusing more on their research in academia and more on trying to reform the educational system from the early childhood years? Write an essay explaining your answer, citing specific references to the text to help support your conclusions.

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