With Respect to Violence in Schools

question 71

Multiple Choice

With respect to violence in schools:

• A) the number of school shootings has been steadily increasing since the 1990s.
• B) although school shootings that garner public attention generally involve White youth, a disproportionate number of homicides in schools involve non-White youth.
• C) homicide in schools involves primarily White students.
• D) school officials are becoming more skilled at identifying which students are most likely to be involved in school
• Shootings.

Identify the concepts of inferior and normal goods and how their demand changes with income.

Understand the relationship between wage rates and labor supply, including the income and substitution effects.

Comprehend the concept of indifference curves and how they are used to analyze consumer preferences and decision-making.

Recognize the optimization condition where an individual's indifference curve is tangent to their budget constraint.

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Definitions:

Social Facilitation

The tendency for people to perform differently when in the presence of others than when alone, typically improving performance on simple or well-rehearsed tasks and hindering it on complex tasks.

Drive Theory

A theory in psychology that explains motivation as being driven by the desire to reduce internal tensions caused by unmet needs.

Social Facilitation

The tendency for individuals to perform better on tasks when in the presence of others than when alone.

Wisdom of the Crowd

The phenomenon that collective judgment or decision of a diverse group of individuals is often more accurate than that of any single member of the group.