Legislators Who Focus on Local Spending Projects for Their Own

question 1

Multiple Choice

Legislators who focus on local spending projects for their own district typically show a lack of sufficient concern for

• A) meeting the demands of special interest groups.
• B) spending in the interest of the nation as a whole.
• C) law and non-market based economics.
• D) the prevalence of voting cycles.

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Definitions:

Recency Effect

A cognitive bias that makes people more likely to remember the last items in a series.

Primacy Effect

The tendency to remember information at the beginning of a list better than the information that follows.

Anterograde

Related to or denoting the inability to form new memories following a traumatic event or damage to the brain.

Encoding Specificity

The principle suggesting that memory is most effective when information available at encoding is also present at retrieval.