Health Care Improvements Often Don't Happen Because

question 69

Multiple Choice

Health care improvements often don't happen because:

• A) citizens generally prefer government investment in other policies.
• B) policy advisors tend to undervalue health care compared to other policy areas.
• C) doctors in government clinics have limited incentives to practice good medicine.
• D) home remedies and traditional medicine are generally more expensive.

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Definitions:

A-not-B Error

A cognitive error observed in infants where they continue to reach for an object at a place where it was last found (A) rather than its new location (B).

Infant Memory

The capacity of infants to encode, store, and retrieve information experienced early in life.

Preferential Looking

A research methodology based on the observation that infants will look longer at more interesting or complex visual stimuli, used to assess vision and cognitive processing.

Accommodation

In cognitive development, the process by which an individual modifies existing cognitive schemas, perceptions, and understandings to make new information fit.