Which of the Following Is True Regarding Suicide

question 345

Multiple Choice

Which of the following is true regarding suicide?

• A) A social contagion, or spreading of suicide in a community rarely occurs in the wake of a suicide that received widespread publicity.
• B) Teenagers may romanticize a suicidal act as one of heroic courage.
• C) Copycat suicides are just an effort to garner attention by social outcasts.
• D) Copycat suicides are more likely with young persons with Twitter accounts.

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Definitions:

Diminishing Returns

A principle stating that as more of a variable input is added to a fixed input, beyond some point, the additional output from the additional input will decrease.

Marginal Cost

The financial outlay required to create another unit of a good or service.

Average Total Cost

The total cost of production (fixed plus variable costs) divided by the number of goods produced, essentially the per unit production cost.

Average Variable Cost

The total variable costs (like materials and labor) divided by the quantity of output produced, indicating the cost of producing each unit.