Rational Ignorance Helps Explain Why:​

question 25

Multiple Choice

Rational ignorance helps explain why:​

• A)legislators often trade votes on key issues to produce positive sum games between them.
• B)legislators usually disregard the desires of those constituencies that cannot influence their chances for reelection.
• C)legislation generates large benefits for a few people but imposes costs on many people.
• D)individuals or firms attempt to obtain favorable treatment from government officials.
• E)voters may choose to remain ignorant of issues when there are large costs associated with becoming informed.

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Definitions:

Eyewitnesses

Individuals who have directly seen an event occur, whose accounts can provide crucial information for investigations.

Source Misattribution

A memory error where a person remembers the information but forgets the source of that information, leading to potential misinformation.

Partial Loss

A situation where there is a reduction or diminishment in quantity, quality, or extent of something, but not a complete loss.

Memory

The faculty by which the mind stores and remembers information.