The Three Largest Categories of Spending by the Federal Government

question 400

Multiple Choice

The three largest categories of spending by the Federal government in order from first to third would be

• A) Social Security, Medicare, and national defense
• B) national defense, net interest, and Social Security
• C) Social Security, national defense, and income security
• D) income security, Social Security, and national defense

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Definitions:

Repression

A defense mechanism proposed by Freud, which involuntarily pushes threatening or disturbing thoughts out of conscious awareness.

Source Amnesia

A memory disorder in which someone can remember certain information but is unable to recall where, when, or how that information was acquired.

Proactive Interference

The phenomenon where old memories inhibit the capacity to remember new information.

Retrieval Cues

Stimuli or prompts that aid the recall of information stored in memory.