A Congestion Toll Imposed on a Highway Driver to Force

question 160

True/False

A congestion toll imposed on a highway driver to force the driver to take into account the increase in travel time she imposes on all other drivers is an example of internalizing the externality.

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Definitions:

Repression

A defense mechanism in psychoanalytic theory in which unpleasant thoughts, memories, or feelings are pushed out of the conscious mind.

Repression

A defense mechanism in which unpleasant thoughts, feelings, or desires are excluded from conscious awareness.

Proactive Interference

The phenomenon where older memories hinder the recall of newly acquired information.

Automatic Processing

The unconscious encoding of incidental information and well-learned tasks, requiring little to no cognitive effort.