A Recession Runs from the

question 142

Multiple Choice

A recession runs from the

• A)peak of the business cycle to its trough.
• B)peak of the business cycle to a recovery.
• C)expansion of a business cycle to its peak.
• D)trough of a business cycle to its peak.
• E)trough of a business cycle to its expansion.

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Definitions:

Evaluative Conditioning

A stimulus will become more liked or less liked when it is consistently paired with stimuli that are either positive or negative.

Spreading Attitude Effect

A liked or disliked person (or attitude object) may affect not only the evaluation of a second person directly associated but also others merely associated with the second person.

Automatic Activation

According to Fazio, attitudes that have a strong evaluative link to situational cues are more likely to automatically come to mind from memory.

Moderator Variable

A variable that qualifies an otherwise simple hypothesis with a view to improving its predictive power (e.g., A causes B, but only when C (the moderator) is present).