When Certain Consumer Products Are in High Demand,producers Might Buy

question 158

Multiple Choice

When certain consumer products are in high demand,producers might buy extra materials and equipment and when demand subsides,producers will cut back on their material purchases.This describes ____ demand.

• A)joint
• B)inelastic
• C)consumer
• D)fluctuating
• E)derived

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Definitions:

Generalization

The process in learning where a response to a specific stimulus is extended to include responses to similar stimuli.

Biological Preparedness

The concept that certain associations are learned more readily than others due to evolutionary predispositions.

Generalization

The extension of the response to stimuli that are similar to the conditioned stimulus in conditioned learning.

Conditioned Stimulus

In classical conditioning, a previously neutral stimulus that, after becoming associated with the unconditioned stimulus, eventually comes to trigger a conditioned response.