Emma Is Constantly Putting Herself Down and Believes That She

question 61

Multiple Choice

Emma is constantly putting herself down and believes that she is stupid. Her negative thinking often depresses her mood. Which perspective might be most helpful in understanding the cause of Emma's depression?

• A) Sociocultural
• B) Psychoanalytic
• C) Biological
• D) Cognitive

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Definitions:

Quasilinear Preferences

Preferences where utility is linear in one argument, usually money, allowing for easy analysis of changes in wealth while other goods are evaluated non-linearly.

Homothetic

Pertaining to a class of production functions or utility functions where equal proportionate changes in inputs result in equal proportionate changes in output.

Utility Function

An economic tool used to encode a consumer's preference orderings over a set of alternatives into a real-valued function. (Duplicate rephrase)

Income

Funds obtained regularly as a result of employment or from returns on investments.