The Tragedy of the Commons Is the Absence of Incentives

question 26

Multiple Choice

The tragedy of the commons is the absence of incentives to

• A) correctly measure the marginal benefit.
• B) prevent under use of the common resource.
• C) prevent overuse and depletion of the common resource.
• D) discover the resource.
• E) prevent the free-rider problem.

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Definitions:

Comprehend Language

The ability to understand and process spoken or written language.

Perceptual Scaffolding

The way in which a familiar word serves as an anchor for learning new words that come immediately before or after it.

Syntactic Bootstrapping

Use of knowledge of grammar to figure out the meaning of new words.

Fast Mapping

The way in which children quickly form an idea of the meaning of an unfamiliar word they hear in a familiar and highly structured social interaction.