Delia Gives Students a Questionnaire on Attitudes Toward Affirmative Action

question 38

Multiple Choice

Delia gives students a questionnaire on attitudes toward affirmative action. Then she shows her participants a movie on affirmative action. Then the participants fill out the same questionnaire again. Which of the following problems is most likely in Delia's study?

• A) Reactive measures
• B) Selection
• C) Nonreactive measures
• D) Type III error

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Definitions:

Price Takers

Market participants who accept prevailing prices because they have no power to influence the market price due to their small market share.

Perfect Competition

A market structure characterized by a large number of small firms, homogeneous products, free entry and exit, and perfect information, leading to firms being price takers.

Diminishing Marginal Returns

A principle stating that as more of a variable input is added to a fixed input, the additional output from each new unit of input will eventually decrease.

Profit-Maximizing Output

The level of production at which a firm achieves the highest possible profit, where marginal cost equals marginal revenue.