Table 11-2 Consider a Small Town with Only Three Families, the Greene

question 23

Multiple Choice

Table 11-2
Consider a small town with only three families, the Greene family, the Brown family, and the Black family. The town does not currently have any streetlights so it is very dark at night. The three families are considering putting in streetlights on Main Street and are trying to determine how many lights to install. The table below shows each family's willingness to pay for each streetlight.
-Refer to Table 11-2. Suppose the cost to install each streetlight is $900 and the families have agreed to split the cost of installing the streetlights equally. To maximize their own surplus, how many streetlights would the Black's like the town to install?

• A)0 streetlights
• B)1 streetlight
• C)2 streetlights
• D)3 streetlights

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Definitions:

Psychical Mechanisms

Processes by which psychological factors influence or determine behavior and mental states.

Hysterical Phenomena

Symptoms or behaviors that are a manifestation of extreme stress, anxiety or unconscious conflict, often appearing without an apparent organic cause.

Freud And Breuer

Refers to Sigmund Freud and Josef Breuer, pioneers in the development of psychoanalysis, with their early work on hysteria laying the groundwork for psychoanalytic theory.

Hysteria

An outdated medical term once used to describe a variety of psychological disorders characterized by extreme emotional reactions and somatic symptoms; now understood in terms of specific disorders.