When Setting Up a Business, You Might Need to Purchase

question 29

Multiple Choice

When setting up a business, you might need to purchase a building, computer, filing cabinets and furniture.This type of purchase would be called ____ by an economist.

• A)capital investment
• B)business consumption expenditures
• C)investment in human capital
• D)none of the above

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Definitions:

Conditioning

A method of modifying behavior in which an individual learns to connect a previously neutral stimulus with a behavior that is sought after.

Optimum Interstimulus Interval

The ideal time gap between the presentation of a conditioned stimulus and an unconditioned stimulus for effective associative learning to occur.

Knee-Jerk Reflex

A reflexive action produced by a sharp tap on the tendons just below the kneecap, demonstrating the patellar reflex.

CS

Stands for Conditioned Stimulus, which is a previously neutral stimulus that, after becoming associated with an unconditioned stimulus, eventually comes to trigger a conditioned response.