-Figure 96 Shows an Individual's Demand Curve for Time Per Month

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Essay

-Figure 9.6 shows an individual's demand curve for time per month spent telecommunicating while driving (talking on the car phone.)A car phone is useless except for talking with somebody who is not in the car.If calls are priced at ten cents per minute,what is the consumer surplus derived from talking? What is the most this person would pay for the car phone? Explain.

Identify and explain the two classes of social dilemmas.

Differentiate between social movements organized around regressive and progressive social change, with examples.

Understand the features of mass behavior, including fads, fashions, and social dilemmas, and how they differ and relate.

Compare theories on why people join social movements and the assumptions behind them.

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Definitions:

Observational Learning

is the process of acquiring new behaviors by watching and imitating the actions of others, as described by Albert Bandura.

Prosocial Behavior

Refers to voluntary actions intended to help or benefit another individual or group of individuals, such as sharing, comforting, or rescuing.

Operant Conditioning

A learning process in which the strength of a behavior is modified by reinforcement or punishment, integral to behaviorist psychology.

Mirror Neuron Activity

The firing of neurons in the brain that occurs both when an individual performs an action and when they observe the same action performed by another, thought to be related to understanding intentions, empathy, and learning through imitation.