A Minimum Wage That Is Less Than the Prevailing Market

question 127

Multiple Choice

A minimum wage that is less than the prevailing market wage will

• A) have no effect on the market.
• B) increase unemployment.
• C) increases wages.
• D) reduce wages.

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Definitions:

Counterconditioning

A behavioral therapy technique that involves the conditioning of an unwanted behavior or response to a stimulus into a desired behavior by associating the stimulus with a new, incompatible response.

Instinctive Drift

The phenomenon whereby an animal's conditioned responses revert to instinctual behaviors, interfering with learned behaviors.

Stimulus Discrimination

The ability to distinguish between different stimuli, responding only to specific stimuli while ignoring others.

Higher-Order Conditioning

A conditioning process in which a stimulus that previously was neutral is paired with a conditioned stimulus to produce the same conditioned response, even in the absence of the original unconditioned stimulus.