As a General Rule, Technological Progress

question 94

Multiple Choice

As a general rule, technological progress

• A) shifts the production possibilities curve outward, away from the origin.
• B) reduces the slope of the production possibilities curve, making it flatter.
• C) increases the slope of the production possibilities curve, making it steeper.
• D) shifts the production possibilities curve inward, toward the origin.

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Definitions:

Spatial Rearrangements

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Conservation-of-Number Task

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Experimenter's Longer Row

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Maze Task

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