If You Burn Your Class Notes in Your Dorm Room

question 91

Multiple Choice

If you burn your class notes in your dorm room at the end of the semester in spite of regulations against it, then you are

• A)acting economically irrationally and creating a social cost.
• B)avoiding the private costs associated with taking your notes to the recycling and creating a social cost.
• C)acting rationally and creating a positive externality.
• D)saving landfill space and creating a social benefit.

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Definitions:

Same Response

This term might suggest a repeated or identical reaction to a stimulus but lacks specificity without context. In behavioral psychology, it might imply a consistent behavior in response to a stimulus.

Behaviorists

Behaviorists are psychologists who focus on observable behaviors as the primary subject matter of psychology, often emphasizing the role of learning in behavior.

Learning

The process of acquiring new understanding, knowledge, behaviors, skills, values, or preferences.

Modern Behaviorists

Psychologists who focus on observable and measurable behaviors, rather than internal psychological processes.