When Gabriel Made a Rational Choice to Spend His Entire

question 171

Multiple Choice

When Gabriel made a rational choice to spend his entire allowance on candy bars,he did so by comparing the

• A) benefits of the candy bars to the desires he had for the candy bars.
• B) marginal benefits of the candy bars to the marginal costs of the candy bars.
• C) opportunity costs of the candy bars to the scarcity of the candy bars.
• D) benefits of the candy bars to the scarcity candy bars.
• E) self-interest to the social interest.

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Definitions:

Biological Preparedness

The concept that certain associations are learned more readily than others due to evolutionary predispositions.

Generalization

The extension of the response to stimuli that are similar to the conditioned stimulus in conditioned learning.

Conditioned Stimulus

In classical conditioning, a previously neutral stimulus that, after becoming associated with the unconditioned stimulus, eventually comes to trigger a conditioned response.

Flooding

A type of psychotherapy technique where an individual is exposed to a large amount of an undesirable stimulus in order to overcome their anxiety or fear.