Prior to Attending College,Marvin Is Offered a Lucrative Four-Year Contract

question 173

Multiple Choice

Prior to attending college,Marvin is offered a lucrative four-year contract as an actor on a daytime soap opera.Assuming that acting and attending college are Marvin's preferred alternatives and that he must choose between these two options,his opportunity cost of attending college after receiving the offer on the soap opera ________________,making him ____________ likely to attend college than before he received the offer.

• A) increases; less
• B) decreases; more
• C) stays the same; equally likely
• D) increases; more
• E) decreases; less

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Participants

The people who are studied in a research project. Participants is the term now used in psychology; other disciplines still call these people “subjects.”

Nurture

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Characteristics of an individual or species that are influenced by environmental factors rather than genetic ones.

Development

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