An Example of a Negative Externality Is

question 101

Multiple Choice

An example of a negative externality is

• A) a sales tax.
• B) cigarette smoke to a nonsmoker.
• C) education.
• D) a measles immunization.
• E) a subsidy.

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Definitions:

Painful Divorce

A distressing dissolution of marriage that involves significant emotional distress and adjustment difficulties.

Proactive Interference

The difficulty in learning new information because of the interference of existing knowledge.

Misinformation Effect

A phenomenon in which people's recollections of events can be distorted by exposure to incorrect or misleading information afterward.

Loftus and Palmer

Researchers who conducted seminal studies on the misinformation effect, demonstrating how post-event information can alter a person's memory of an event.