Why Do Some People Think That the Productivity Slowdown Since

question 77

Multiple Choice

Why do some people think that the productivity slowdown since 1973 is just a return to normalcy after fast productivity growth during the previous 25 years?

• A) Productivity growth of the previous 25 years was abnormally low.
• B) The Great Depression and World War II had prevented technological opportunities from being exploited.
• C) Canada is the only country to face the slowdown, due to poor regulatory decisions.
• D) Canada has allowed countries like Japan to steal its technological breakthroughs.

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Definitions:

Proactive Interference

The phenomenon where older memories interfere with the recall of newer memories.

Encoding Failure

A situation where information does not get stored in long-term memory due to insufficient encoding during the learning phase.

Source Amnesia

A memory disorder where one can recall certain information but is unable to remember where, when, or how they learned that information.

Working Memory

The part of short-term memory that is concerned with immediate conscious perceptual and linguistic processing.