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Multiple Choice

Use the following to answer questions :
Figure: Fiscal Policy and the End of the Great Depression
-(Figure: Fiscal Policy and the End of the Great Depression) Look at the figure Fiscal Policy and the End of the Great Depression. The period from 1939 through 1943 would seem to indicate that in the short run a large increase in government deficit spending can _____ the unemployment rate.

• A)reduce
• B)increase
• C)not affect
• D)reduce or increase

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Definitions:

Symbolic Thinking

The ability to use symbols, words, or objects to represent something that is not physically present.

Preoperational Child

A stage in Piaget's theory of cognitive development describing children aged 2 to 7, characterized by the development of language and symbolic thought but limited in logical reasoning.

Conservation

In cognitive psychology, the principle that properties of substances such as weight and mass remain the same (are conserved) when superficial characteristics such as their shapes or arrangement are changed.

Irreversibility

A cognitive concept where an individual does not understand that actions can be reversed to return to the original state.