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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 subject was Kahneman running experiments on in his Berkeley lab by the time he met Redelmeier?

3. Why were governments reluctant to seeding hurricanes?

4. To whom did Tversky write to explain his reasoning for staying in the United States?

5. In Chapter 8, what was the hospital Donald Redelmeier worked at known for?

Short Essay Questions

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

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 8, how did Tversky's and Kahneman's work influence Donald Redelmeier?

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

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

6. In Chapter 9, what did Tversky find when he went to the Suez Canal at the end of the conflict in 1973?

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

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

9. In Chapter 8, what is one reason Redelmeier suspected Tversky seemed to have so much time to work with him on ideas and papers?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How did Kahneman's collaboration with Tversky change the way Kahneman worked and lived - and vice versa? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your arguments.

Essay Topic 2

Kahneman once said "No one ever made a decision because of a number They need a story" (250). Write an essay explaining what you think he meant by this statement, citing specific references to the text to help support your answers.

Essay Topic 3

What did Kahneman's and Tversky's work reveal about the role of stereotypes in judgement and decision-making? Write an essay explaining your answers.

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