Consider the Following Combinations of Guns and Butter That Can

question 91

Multiple Choice

Consider the following combinations of guns and butter that can be produced: 0 guns,20,000 units of butter; 5,000 guns,15,000 units of butter; 10,000 guns,10,000 units of butter; 15,000 guns,5,000 units of butter; 20,000 guns,0 units of butter.The PPF between guns and butter is

• A) a downward-sloping bowed-out curve.
• B) a downward-sloping straight line.
• C) an upward-sloping straight line.
• D) It is impossible to answer this question without knowing which good would be plotted on the vertical axis.

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Definitions:

Tasty Food

Edible substances that are perceived as having a pleasant flavor profile by the taste receptors.

Discriminative Stimuli

A specific stimulus in the presence of which a particular response is more likely to be reinforced, and in the absence of which a response is not reinforced.

Stimulus Generalization

The process by which a response is elicited by stimuli similar to the original stimulus associated with that response.

Higher-Order Conditioning

Higher-order conditioning is a process in classical conditioning by which a conditioned stimulus comes to signal another stimulus that is already associated with an unconditioned stimulus, leading to the same conditioned response.