Which of the Following Is an Economic Cost of Rising

question 84

Multiple Choice

Which of the following is an economic cost of rising unemployment rates?

• A) Loss of GDP
• B) An inward shift in the production possibility frontier
• C) A fall in the amount of unemployment benefits paid by the government
• D) An increase in income levels, as people who lose their jobs move onto the unemployment benefits

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Definitions:

CS-CR Association

The learned association between the conditioned stimulus (CS) and the conditioned response (CR) in classical conditioning.

Pavlovian Conditioning

The association of a response with an environmental event as the result of pairing that event (conditioned stimulus, or CS) with a biologically significant event (unconditioned stimulus, or UCS).

Operant Conditioning

When a specific response produces reinforcement and the frequency of the response determines the amount of reinforcement obtained.

Learned Helplessness

A condition in which an individual learns to feel powerless and stops trying to change or escape a negative situation due to past failures.