While Taking a Test, Suppose You Are Distracted by the Student

question 34

Multiple Choice

While taking a test, suppose you are distracted by the student next to you who is smacking her gum as she chews it. However, after a few minutes, you no longer attend to the smacking, even though your neighbor keeps doing this. Your response in this situation is best considered to be the result of:

• A) reinforcement
• B) punishment
• C) classical conditioning
• D) habituation

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Definitions:

Mixed Cost

A cost that contains both variable and fixed cost elements, making its total expense vary with changes in the level of output.

Fixed Cost

Expenses that do not fluctuate with changes in production volume, staying constant even as production levels vary.

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Step-Variable Cost

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