Why Did the Government Recently Give Financial Bailouts to GM

question 135

Multiple Choice

Why did the government recently give financial bailouts to GM Canada and Chrysler Canada?

• A) because their bankruptcies would cause an enormous financial ruin for the Canadian economy
• B) because the Canadian government had previously borrowed from both companies in the past
• C) because the Canadian government owed a moral debt because of the jobs they had created in past decades
• D) because these companies had long histories of keeping production in Canada, compared to other companies who outsourced

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Definitions:

Evaluative Conditioning

A stimulus will become more liked or less liked when it is consistently paired with stimuli that are either positive or negative.

Spreading Attitude Effect

A liked or disliked person (or attitude object) may affect not only the evaluation of a second person directly associated but also others merely associated with the second person.

Automatic Activation

According to Fazio, attitudes that have a strong evaluative link to situational cues are more likely to automatically come to mind from memory.

Moderator Variable

A variable that qualifies an otherwise simple hypothesis with a view to improving its predictive power (e.g., A causes B, but only when C (the moderator) is present).