It Is Inefficient for the Government to Charge a Price

question 11

Multiple Choice

It is inefficient for the government to charge a price for consuming public health information because

• A)no one will be willing to pay to use this information.
• B)the cost of providing this information to an additional person is essentially zero.
• C)the marginal costs of producing it exceed the marginal benefits of using it.
• D)the price cannot be set to cover all research costs.
• E)too much of the information will be produced.

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Definitions:

Spontaneous Recovery

The reappearance of a learned response after extinction has occurred.

Counterconditioning

A therapy technique used to replace an undesired response to a stimulus with a desired response, by associating the stimulus with a new, more desirable behavior.

Instinctive Drift

The tendency of an animal to revert to instinctive behaviors that interfere with a conditioned response.

Stimulus Discrimination

The tendency to stop making a generalized response to a stimulus that is similar to the original conditioned stimulus because the similar stimulus is never paired with the unconditioned stimulus.