Who Would Be Included in the Labor Force

question 215

Multiple Choice

Who would be included in the labor force?

• A)Karen, who works most of the week in a steel factory
• B)Beth, who is waiting for her new job at the bank to start
• C)Dave, who does not have a job, but is looking for work
• D)All of the above are included in the labor force.

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Definitions:

Cognitive Processes

Mental activities such as thinking, understanding, learning, and remembering.

Unattended Information

Information that is present in the environment but is not the focus of one's attention and hence is processed minimally or not at all.

Sensory Memory

The shortest-term element of memory, which allows retention of impressions of sensory information after the original stimuli have ended.

Primacy and Recency Effects

Psychological terms describing the tendency to remember information that appears at the beginning (primacy) and end (recency) of a list better than information in the middle.