Over Time, There Have Been Technological Advances in the Production

question 116

Essay

Over time, there have been technological advances in the production of radios. At the same time, it has become less popular to listen to radio. Taking these two events into account, what would be the likely effect on the wages of workers who manufacture radios?

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Definitions:

Anal-expulsive Personality

A psychoanalytic concept that suggests a personality type characterized by messiness, carelessness, and a lack of self-control, believed to originate from certain experiences in early childhood.

Anal-retentive

A term derived from Freudian psychoanalysis referring to an individual who is perceived as excessively neat, precise, and stubborn, often as a result of stringent potty training in the anal stage of development.

Oedipal

Pertaining to the Oedipus complex, a Freudian theory involving a child's unconscious sexual desire for the opposite-sex parent and jealousy towards the same-sex parent.

Electra

A psychoanalytic theory that suggests a girl's psychosexual competition with her mother for possession of her father.