Athena Wants to Determine If She Should Itemize Her Deductions

question 75

Multiple Choice

Athena wants to determine if she should itemize her deductions. She has identified several possible deductions. Which of the following is NOT a proper itemized deduction?

• A) Contributions to charitable organizations
• B) Mortgage interest
• C) Medical and dental expenses that exceed 10% of AGI
• D) Miscellaneous expenses less than 2% of AGI
• E) State income taxes

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Definitions:

Operant Conditioning

An educational method where the intensity of an action is altered by either encouraging or penalizing it.

Forgetting

The loss of information from long-term memory, often considered a normal process due to various factors like interference, decay, or retrieval failure.

Classical Conditioning

a learning process that occurs when two stimuli are repeatedly paired; a response that is initially elicited by the second stimulus is eventually elicited by the first stimulus alone.

Extinction

In psychology, the gradual weakening and disappearance of a conditioned response when the conditioned stimulus is no longer paired with the unconditioned stimulus.