Positive Economics

question 144

Multiple Choice

Positive economics

• A) always gives an optimistic spin to economic news.
• B) is concerned with the economic policies that should be implemented.
• C) is objective.
• D) was not used by nineteenth century economists.

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Definitions:

Unconscious Conflicts

Internal struggles arising from unresolved, often repressed, desires or impulses that can lead to mental disturbances or disorders according to psychoanalytic theories.

Psychoanalysis

Freud’s therapeutic technique for analyzing an individual’s unconscious thoughts.

Psychoanalysis

A therapeutic approach and theory of psychological disorders founded by Sigmund Freud, emphasizing unconscious processes and unresolved past conflicts.

Free Association

A psychoanalytic technique that involves encouraging individuals to say aloud whatever comes to mind, no matter how trivial or embarrassing.