Scarcity Is a Situation

question 13

Multiple Choice

Scarcity is a situation:

• A) where people's needs exceed their resources.
• B) where people's wants exceed their resources.
• C) where the quantity of resources is sufficient to meet all wants.
• D) where people's needs exceed other people's resources.
• E) where the quantity of resources is sufficient to meet all needs.

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Definitions:

Cognitive Restructuring

A psychotherapeutic process of learning to identify and dispute irrational or maladaptive thoughts known as cognitive distortions, such as "all-or-nothing" thinking.

Pessimistic Attributional Styles

A tendency to habitually explain negative events with causes that are stable, global, and internal.

Internal Validity

The extent to which a research study provides evidence that a causal relationship exists between the variables tested, without influence from external factors.

External Validity

How much the outcomes of a research can be extrapolated to different contexts and different people.