In Determining Your Credit Capacity, You First Provide for Basic

question 168

Multiple Choice

In determining your credit capacity, you first provide for basic necessities, such as:

• A) furniture.
• B) home furnishings.
• C) mortgage or rent.
• D) automobile.
• E) durable goods.

Understand the concept of rational self-interest in economic decision-making.

Differentiate between normative and positive economic statements.

Recognize the role of economists in storytelling to clarify economic theories and models.

Identify the characteristics of rational behavior in economic models.

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Definitions:

Extinction

In behavioral psychology, the process by which a previously learned response decreases in frequency or disappears when reinforcement is withheld.

Inhibition

A psychological or physiological process that decreases or suppresses certain behaviors, emotions, or actions.

Suppression

The conscious deliberate effort to control and inhibit unwanted or unacceptable thoughts, feelings, or impulses.

Conditioned Forgetting

The loss of a memory due to interference from learning through conditioning, rather than organic causes.