The Official Unemployment Rate Ignores

question 224

Multiple Choice

The official unemployment rate ignores:

• A) people with professional jobs.
• B) people who work on commission.
• C) discouraged workers.
• D) people with professional jobs, people who work on commission, and discouraged workers.

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Definitions:

Behavior Modification

The direct and systematic application of principles of learning to change maladaptive or unwanted behaviors into more desirable behaviors.

Reciprocal Determinism

A theory proposed by Albert Bandura that suggests human behavior, personal factors, and the environment continually interact and influence each other.

Extinction

The process through which a conditioned response diminishes over time as it is no longer reinforced.

Classical Conditioning

A learning process that occurs when two stimuli are repeatedly paired together; an unconditioned stimulus (which evokes an unconditioned response) is paired with a conditioned stimulus until the conditioned stimulus alone elicits a conditioned response.