One of Your New Patients Is Suffering from a Severe

question 464

Multiple Choice

One of your new patients is suffering from a severe disorder. All you know about this person is that they have received a ECT. Most likely, they were suffering from

• A)schizophrenia
• B)a severe phobia
• C)dissociative identity disorder
• D)obsessive-compulsive disorder
• E)depression

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Definitions:

Marginal Social Benefit

The additional gain to society as a whole from an additional unit of a good or service.

Emissions Tax

A tax imposed on the emission of pollutants, aimed at reducing the environmental externality costs of these emissions.

Optimal Tax

A tax designed to generate government revenue with the minimum economic distortion or welfare loss.

Marginal Social Cost

The total cost to society of producing an additional unit of a good or service, including both the cost to the producer and the cost of any negative externalities associated with production.