In a Typical Game of What Williams and Colleagues Called

question 63

Multiple Choice

In a typical game of what Williams and colleagues called cyberball,participants:

• A)begin playing an electronic game of "catch" with two avatars,and the avatars gradually increase the extent to which they include the participant.
• B)begin playing an electronic game of "catch" with two avatars,and the avatars eventually stop including the participant in the game.
• C)engage in a dialogue with a computerized avatar that they believe is a participant in another room on a different computer.
• D)engage in a dialogue with a participant in another room,whom they believe to be only a computerized avatar.

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Definitions:

Market Structure

Market structure refers to the organizational and other characteristics of a market, including the level of competition and the nature of market participants.

Oligopoly

An industry with just a few firms.

Perfect Competition

A market structure characterized by a large number of small firms, homogenous products, free entry and exit from the market, and full information availability, leading to no single firm influencing the market price.

Concentration Ratio

A metric used in economics to assess the degree of market concentration by measuring the market share of the largest firms within an industry.