Increases in Government Regulations Can Make It More Costly for Producers,and

question 115

True/False

Increases in government regulations can make it more costly for producers,and the increase in production costs results in a leftward shift of the short-run aggregate supply curve.

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Definitions:

Conditioned Reinforcers

Stimuli or rewards that have become reinforcing by being paired with another reinforcer, sometimes called secondary reinforcers.

Established Reinforcers

Stimuli that have acquired the capacity to strengthen behavior due to their consistent association with primary reinforcers or through inherent desirability.

Operant Conditioning

A learning process in which behaviors are controlled by consequences, with rewards increasing the likelihood of a behavior and punishments decreasing it.

Reinforcement

In behavioral psychology, a process that increases the likelihood of a behavior being repeated by providing a consequence that is desirable for the individual.