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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 was the prevailing theory of decision-making called when Tversky and Kahneman began researching it?

2. What hypothetical problem was a classic example of a framing issue?

3. What publication did Tversky and Kahneman think offered them the best chance of reaching audiences outside of psychology?

4. Who was Tversky visiting in the United States in the summer of 1970?

5. Where did Kahneman fly to meet Anne Treisman and declare her love for her in 1975?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Chapter 10, what was Kenneth Arrow's one big question for Tversky when he lectured on decision-making theory?

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

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

4. In Chapter 9, what did Tversky and Kahneman find out about soldiers' motivations for fighting?

5. 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?

6. In Chapter 8, what did Kahneman predict about people's predictions about their own happiness?

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Kahneman and Tversky both often told interviewers and others that they found it impossible to separate and distinguish which of the ideas in their collaborative works originated with whom. What change in their working circumstances and relationship led to a clearer distinction about whose ideas were whose? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your arguments.

Essay Topic 2

What role did Tversky think the concept of similarity play in the process of decision-making, according to Tversky's beliefs and research? Write an essay explaining your answer, citing specific references to the text to help support 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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