A University Offers a Free Shuttle Service Around Campus

question 28

Multiple Choice

A university offers a free shuttle service around campus.The opportunity cost of the shuttle service is equal to:

• A) zero, since it is free to students who want to ride.
• B) the wages paid to the shuttle drivers.
• C) the wages paid to the shuttle drivers, plus the gasoline expenses.
• D) the highest valued alternative use of the resources devoted to the shuttle program.

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Definitions:

Respondent Behavior

A behavioral response to stimuli that is conditioned through certain environmental or physiological triggers, as detailed in classical conditioning.

Classically Conditioned

The process by which a neutral stimulus becomes associated with an innately meaningful stimulus and acquires the capacity to evoke a similar response.

Observational Learning

Learning that occurs through observing the behavior of others and the outcomes of those behaviors.

Conditioned Response

A learned response to a previously neutral stimulus that becomes conditioned after being associated with an unconditioned stimulus.