Gladys Loves Music and Spends Her Money Only on Tapes

question 2

Multiple Choice

Gladys loves music and spends her money only on tapes and compact discs.She is always willing to trade 2 tapes for 1 compact discs.Originally, music stores sold compact disc for $9 each and tapes for $5 each.Then the price of compact discs fell to $8 each.The change in her consumption of compact discs that resulted was

• A)entirely due to the substitution effect.
• B)entirely due to the income effect.
• C)partly due to the income effect and partly due to the substitution effect.
• D)due to the income effect for low incomes and the substitution effect for high incomes.
• E)There was no change in her demand for compact discs.

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Definitions:

Spotlight Metaphor

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Nature Of Attention

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Shadowing Performance

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Treisman's Experiment

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