Economic Problems That Led to the Recession at the End

question 117

Multiple Choice

Economic problems that led to the recession at the end of the first decade of the twenty-first century produced:

• A)not enough information to answer this question.
• B)low unemployment rates.
• C)little change in unemployment rates.
• D)high unemployment rates.

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Definitions:

Weak Situation

Contexts in which social norms, cues, or other situational factors are ambiguous, allowing for a greater variety of behaviors and making personal dispositions more influential.

Personality Differences

Variations in the patterns of thinking, feeling, and behaving that distinguish individuals from one another.

Situationism

The theory that behavior is determined more by situations than by personality traits.

Locus Of Control

A psychological concept that refers to individuals’ beliefs about the extent to which outcomes in their lives are under their own control versus external forces.