In Order to Determine the Quantity of a Government-Provided Service

question 26

Multiple Choice

In order to determine the quantity of a government-provided service that should be produced, one should consider the

• A)price minus the average cost of the service.
• B)marginal cost and benefit of the service.
• C)total cost and benefit of the service.
• D)average cost and benefit of the service.
• E)marginal benefit and average cost of the service.

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Definitions:

Classical Conditioning

A process of learning through which two stimuli are habitually paired; the response, initially drawn out by the second stimulus, is eventually evoked by just the first stimulus.

Conditioned Stimulus

A previously neutral stimulus that, after becoming associated with an unconditioned stimulus, eventually triggers a conditioned response.

Unconditioned Stimulus

In classical conditioning, a stimulus that instinctively and automatically induces a response without previously being learned.

Extinction

In psychology, the gradual disappearance of a conditioned response when the reinforcement is withheld; in biology, the end of an organism or of a group of organisms.