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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 both Tversky and Kahneman sense regarding their joint work during their year in Eugene?
2. What was Lew Goldberg's work known for addressing?
3. In Chapter 9, what does Lewis say Kahneman's and Tversky's relationship was like in every way other than sexually?
4. What subject was Kahneman running experiments on in his Berkeley lab by the time he met Redelmeier?
5. Who was the architect of the World Trade Center in Chapter 6?
Short Essay Questions
1. In Chapter 7, why did Kahneman's and Tverksy's theories upset historians so much?
2. In Chapter 7, what mathematical principle did Kahneman find was responsible for pilots' performance after praise or criticism?
3. In Chapter 9, what did Tversky and Khaneman uncover about a main motivating factor in the decision-making process?
4. In Chapter 8, what did Kahneman predict about people's predictions about their own happiness?
5. In Chapter 8, what was Redelmeier's impression about the differences between working with Kahneman and Tversky?
6. In Chapter 10, what habit did Richard Thaler have when he played board games as a child and what did this indicate about his personality?
7. 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?
8. In Chapter 6, how does Lewis describe heuristics?
9. Why did Kahneman and Tversky move to the United States at the same time in Chapter 10?
10. In Chapter 8, what is one reason Redelmeier suspected Tversky seemed to have so much time to work with him on ideas and papers?
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
How does Lewis explain the relationship between classification and stereotypes, according to Tversky's and Kahneman's work? Write an essay explaining your answers.
Essay Topic 3
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.
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