Which of the Following Statements Is False

question 69

Multiple Choice

Which of the following statements is false?

• A) Government can remove individuals from a prisoner's dilemma setting and make them better off.
• B) In a prisoner's dilemma setting,it is impossible for the government to define and enforce property rights that the individuals involved in the setting want to have defined and enforced.
• C) As long as government charges each individual in a prisoner's dilemma setting a tax that is less than the gain received by being removed from the setting,then government has made the individuals better off.
• D) Depending upon the amount of the tax charged to each individual in a prisoner's dilemma setting,the government can make both persons better off,both persons worse off,or one person better off and the other person worse off.

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Definitions:

Acquisition

In learning theory, the process of gaining new information and incorporating it into one's knowledge base.

Classical Conditioning

A learning process in which an association is made between a naturally occurring stimulus and a previously neutral stimulus.

Conditioned Stimulus

An initially neutral stimulus that becomes associated with an unconditioned stimulus, leading to a conditioned response in classical conditioning.

Classical Conditioning

An instructional process where two stimuli are frequently paired together; the response, initially triggered by the second stimulus, is subsequently drawn by the first stimulus alone.