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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. Who was the psychology professor who thought Tversky's and Kahneman's early work would win a Nobel Prize in Economics?

2. What was Barbara Tversky doing when the war broke out in Israel in 1973?

3. In Chapter 7, how did Tversky and Kahneman classify the relationship between prediction and judgment?

4. What did Redelmeier say Kahneman was more likely to see in his own work than Tversky was able to see in his own work?

5. What did the Israeli army mistakenly think was the result of superiors praising pilots?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. In Chapter 9, what is one practical change Kahneman suggested to the Israeli army based on the garbage he saw on the side of the road?

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

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

9. Why did Kahneman and Tversky move to the United States at the same time in Chapter 10?

10. To whom did most economists usually write - Kahneman or Tversky - and why?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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.

Essay Topic 2

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 3

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.

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