MrCog Has 18 Hours a Day to Divide Between Labor

question 19

Multiple Choice

Mr.Cog has 18 hours a day to divide between labor and leisure.If he has 8 dollars of nonlabor income per day and gets a wage rate of 5 dollars per hour when he works, his budget equation, expressing combinations of consumption and leisure that he can afford to have, can be written as

• A)5R + C = 98.
• B)R + C/5 = 128.
• C)C = 98 + 5R.
• D)5R + C = 8.
• E)C = 122 + 5R.

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Definitions:

Behavior Change

A modification in an individual's behavior patterns, attitudes, or actions.

Multiple Baseline Design

A method of graphing behavioral observations that provides a way to evaluate the effectiveness of an intervention when a reversal design is not desirable. A multiple baseline design permits recording and analyzing behavioral observations from three variables: (1) two or more behaviors associated with one student in a single setting, (2) two or more students exhibiting the same behavior in a single setting, and (3) two or more settings in which one student is exhibiting the same behavior.

Reversal Design

An experimental technique where a behavior is measured before and after a treatment is introduced, and then once again when the treatment is removed.

Intervention

Actions or strategies implemented to produce a change in a situation or in the behavior of individuals, often within educational or therapeutic contexts.