One Similarity Between the Great Recession and the Great Depression

question 104

Multiple Choice

One similarity between the Great Recession and the Great Depression is that in both episodes

• A) large numbers of banks failed.
• B) there were significant problems in financial markets.
• C) the U.S.government raised taxes.
• D) the U.S.government allowed the money supply to decrease.
• E) the unemployment rate exceeded 20 percent.

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Definitions:

Sensory Input

Information received through the senses, which is then processed by the brain.

Perception

The process of organizing, identifying, and interpreting sensory information in order to represent and understand the environment.

Signal-detection Theory

A psychological theory that explains how we discern between information-bearing patterns and random noise in the environment.

Sensory Processes

The mechanisms by which information from the environment is absorbed, transformed into neural signals, and perceived.