The Optimal Size of a Club That Shares a Public

question 38

Multiple Choice

The optimal size of a club that shares a public good _____.

• A)gets smaller if external costs decline
• B)gets larger if external costs decline
• C)gets smaller if congestion costs decline
• D)gets larger if congestion costs decline

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Definitions:

Stimulus Discrimination

The learned ability to respond differently to similar stimuli based on their differences, significant in the context of conditioning.

Stimulus Generalization

The tendency for the conditioned response to be evoked by stimuli that are similar to the stimulus to which the response was initially conditioned.

Higher-Order Conditioning

A process in classical conditioning where a stimulus that was previously neutral becomes a conditioned stimulus by being paired with another conditioned stimulus.

Shaping

A method of teaching new behaviors by rewarding successive approximations toward a desired behavior.