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Suppose an initial increase in government expenditure increases output by $50,000. If the size of the multiplier was 1.0, the size of the initial increase in government expenditure was _____
Habituation
Tendency of the brain to stop attending to constant, unchanging information.
Learned Helplessness
A condition in which a person suffers from a sense of powerlessness, arising from traumatic events or persistent failure to succeed. It is thought to be one of the underlying causes of depression.
Contingency Blocking
A phenomenon in classical conditioning where a subject learns to associate a particular stimulus with an outcome, blocking the learning of an association with a new stimulus presented at the same time.
Response Generalization
The process by which a learned response is applied to similar stimuli beyond the original conditioned stimulus.
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