If an Index of Well-Being Were Included in the National

question 199

True/False

If an index of well-being were included in the national income and product accounts, information on life expectancy, the stock of human capital, income distributions, poverty rates, and unemployment rates might be collected.

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Definitions:

Spontaneous Recovery

The reappearance, after a pause, of an extinguished conditioned response.

Respondent Behavior

Behavior that occurs as an automatic response to some stimulus.

Generalization

The tendency, once a response has been conditioned, for stimuli similar to the conditioned stimulus to elicit similar responses.

Operant Conditioning

A type of learning in which behavior is strengthened if followed by a reinforcer or diminished if followed by a punisher.