Laci Is Trying to Teach Her Toddler to Use His

question 46

Multiple Choice

Laci is trying to teach her toddler to use his manners.She gives him a cookie whenever he remembers to say "please".Which neurotransmitter regulates the toddler's use of manners to obtain the cookie?

• A)glutemate
• B)dopamine
• C)GABA
• D)acetylcholine

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Definitions:

Homothetic Preferences

Consumer preferences that are consistent or proportionate across different scales or levels of consumption, indicating a straight line through the origin in a utility function graph.

Quasilinear Preferences

Preferences where utility is a linear function of one good, making the consumer's marginal rate of substitution between goods independent of the level of consumption of that good.

Convex Preferences

Consumer preferences where the consumer prefers averages or mixes of goods to extremes, represented graphically by convex indifference curves.

Monotonic Transformation

A monotonic transformation involves a function that either entirely increases or decreases, preserving the order of the original function’s elements.