Match Each Statement with the Correct Term Below

question 107

Multiple Choice

Match each statement with the correct term below.
-Personal exemption amount

• A)Prepaid interest.
• B)An amount that each taxpayer who is neither a qualifying child nor a qualifying relative,and who files a return,is allowed to deduct.
• C)One test for a qualifying relative.
• D)The minimum amount a taxpayer can deduct for personal expenditures.
• E)A deduction in this category is always allowed.That is,there is no minimum allowable amount and generally no income limitation placed on these deductions.
• F)Generally,these deductions are for specifically allowed personal expenditures.
• G)An exception to this test is a custodial parent.
• H)Interest paid on debt used to buy securities.
• I)Interest paid on credit cards,personal loans,car loans,etc.
• J)Interest paid on a mortgage secured by the taxpayer's residence.The proceeds of the loan can be used for any purpose and the interest is still deductible.
• K)A tax designed to prevent the shifting of unearned income to children of the taxpayer.

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Definitions:

Learned Helplessness

A condition in which a person suffers from a sense of powerlessness, arising from traumatic events or persistent failure to succeed. It is thought to be one of the underlying causes of depression.

Contingency Blocking

A phenomenon in classical conditioning where a subject learns to associate a particular stimulus with an outcome, blocking the learning of an association with a new stimulus presented at the same time.

Response Generalization

The process by which a learned response is applied to similar stimuli beyond the original conditioned stimulus.

Conditioned Stimulus

an originally neutral stimulus that, after association with an unconditioned stimulus, comes to trigger a conditioned response.