An Increase in the Unemployment Rate That Is Accompanied by a Decrease

question 66

Multiple Choice

An increase in the unemployment rate that is accompanied by a decrease in the inflation rate is represented by a ________ the Phillips curve.

• A) movement down
• B) movement up
• C) upward shift of
• D) downward shift of

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Definitions:

Top-to-bottom Processing

Cognitive processing that starts with the formulation of the perceptual hypothesis about a stimulus and works downwards to finer detail.

Reversible Figures

Visual illusions or images that can be perceived in more than one way, revealing cognitive processes involved in visual perception.

Figure and Ground

A principle in gestalt psychology that refers to the tendency of the perceptual system to simplify a scene into the main object that we focus on (figure) and everything else that forms the background (ground).

Gestalt Principle

A psychological theory suggesting that individuals perceive objects as whole systems rather than the sum of their parts.