In This Era of Globalization, One of the Main Reasons

question 15

Multiple Choice

In this era of globalization, one of the main reasons why some countries have remained closed to the rest of the world is:

• A)the fact that their governments follow policies that explicitly work against economic integration.
• B)racial discrimination.
• C)the fact that their governments impose extremely high mortgage taxes.
• D)the establishment of minimum wages.
• E)the fact that they are too poor to trade anything with the rest of the world.

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Definitions:

Anal Phase

The second stage in Freud's psychosexual development, focusing on bowel and bladder elimination and control issues.

Self-Serving Bias

The common tendency to attribute positive events to one's own character but attribute negative events to external factors.

Better-Than-Average Effect

The cognitive bias where individuals overestimate their own qualities and abilities compared to others.

Displacement

A psychological defense mechanism in which emotional impulses are redirected from a real object to a safer, substitute target.