The Functionalists Were Interested in How Thoughts, Feelings, Perceptions, and Habits

question 218

Multiple Choice

The functionalists were interested in how thoughts, feelings, perceptions, and habits help people and animals

• A)form meaningful Gestalts.
• B)introspect and experience the phi phenomenon.
• C)adapt to their environment.
• D)form connections between stimuli and responses.

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Definitions:

Normal Profit

The payment made by a firm to obtain and retain entrepreneurial ability; the minimum income that entrepreneurial ability must receive to induce entrepreneurs to provide their entrepreneurial ability to a firm; the level of accounting profit at which a firm generates an economic profit of zero after paying for entrepreneurial ability.

Implicit Cost

The monetary income a firm sacrifices when it uses a resource it owns rather than supplying the resource in the market; equal to what the resource could have earned in the best-paying alternative employment; includes a normal profit.

Law of Diminishing Returns

The economic principle stating that as one input variable is increased, there is a point at which the marginal gain in output begins to decrease, holding all other inputs constant.

Diseconomies of Scale

Diseconomies of scale occur when a firm's costs per unit increase as the scale of its output increases, often due to inefficiencies that arise from managing a larger organization.