Suppose You Are Provided with the Following Data for Your

question 58

Multiple Choice

Suppose you are provided with the following data for your country for a particular month: 200 million people are working,20 million are not working but are looking for work,and 40 million are not working and have given up looking for work.The official unemployment rate for that month is

• A)7.7%.
• B)9.1%.
• C)10%.
• D)23%.
• E) 30%.

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Definitions:

Operant Conditioning

A method of learning that employs rewards and punishments for behavior, which affects the likelihood of that behavior being repeated.

Latent Learning

A form of learning that occurs without any immediate or obvious reinforcement, only becoming apparent through a subsequent change in behavior.

Observational Learning

Learning that occurs through observing the behaviors of others and the outcomes of those behaviors, without direct experience.

Positive Reinforcers

Stimuli that, when introduced after a behavior, increase the likelihood of that behavior occurring again.