Increases in Productivity Are NOT Responsible for Increased Standards of Living

question 115

True/False

Increases in productivity are NOT responsible for increased standards of living.

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Definitions:

Sensory Adaptation

The mechanism where sensory receptors reduce their responsiveness to stimuli that remain constant over time.

Weber's Law

A principle in psychology that states the smallest perceptible difference in a stimulus is proportional to the intensity of the original stimulus.

High Threshold

A term indicating a level of high sensitivity or resistance to stimulus before a response is triggered.

Signal-detection Theory

A method for measuring the capacity to differentiate informative patterns from random, distracting ones.