Match the Terms with the Definitions

question 12

Multiple Choice

Match the terms with the definitions.
-A grant by the federal government to an inventor giving the exclusive right to produce, use, and sell an invention for a period of twenty years.

• A)Accelerated Cost Recovery System (ACRS)
• B)accelerated depreciation methods
• C)amortization
• D)trademark
• E)cash equivalent price
• F)long-term assets
• G)copyright
• H)cost
• I)patent
• J)depreciable cost (base)
• K)depreciation
• L)physical depreciation
• M)tangible assets
• N)sum-of-the-years'-digits method
• O)salvage value
• P)property, plant, and equipment

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Definitions:

Specific Attributions

The process of assigning a cause to a particular behavior or event, focusing on factors unique to that specific situation.

Fundamental Attribution Error

The tendency for observers to underestimate situational influences and overestimate dispositional characteristics when explaining others' behaviors.

Stable Internal Characteristics

Traits or attributes within an individual that are enduring and consistent across different situations and over time.

Situational Attribution

is the process of attributing a person's behavior to external or situational factors, rather than to internal characteristics or dispositions.