The Role of Motivation in Teaching Complex Language
... • Moreover, he differentiated between motivational control and stimulus control by declaring that a “Drive is Not a Stimulus”. • He relied on the operations of deprivation/satiation and presentation of aversive stimuli to describe motivation. • Keller and Schoenfeld’s book Principles of Psychology ...
... • Moreover, he differentiated between motivational control and stimulus control by declaring that a “Drive is Not a Stimulus”. • He relied on the operations of deprivation/satiation and presentation of aversive stimuli to describe motivation. • Keller and Schoenfeld’s book Principles of Psychology ...
Detecting other-regarding behavior with virtual players
... money between herself and another player will offer nothing to the other player. Similarly, players should not cooperate in repeated prisoner dilemma games, nor contribute to the funding of public goods in typical voluntary contribution games.2 These predictions, however, are consistently violated i ...
... money between herself and another player will offer nothing to the other player. Similarly, players should not cooperate in repeated prisoner dilemma games, nor contribute to the funding of public goods in typical voluntary contribution games.2 These predictions, however, are consistently violated i ...
Forensic Economics - Dartmouth College
... marginal return to searching a given type of car must equal the average return. Thus if we assume that police seek to maximize felony drug arrests, and the average police search of a black motorist’s car is less likely to find drugs than the average police search of a white motorist’s car, it implie ...
... marginal return to searching a given type of car must equal the average return. Thus if we assume that police seek to maximize felony drug arrests, and the average police search of a black motorist’s car is less likely to find drugs than the average police search of a white motorist’s car, it implie ...
ISP - IES
... be reached more than once is zero whenever the support is uncountably infinite. There is also a problem of handling the estimated values as binary or categorical (banks usually use loss classes to describe the level of loss the bank should assume it will have to face with some probability). I would ...
... be reached more than once is zero whenever the support is uncountably infinite. There is also a problem of handling the estimated values as binary or categorical (banks usually use loss classes to describe the level of loss the bank should assume it will have to face with some probability). I would ...
Definition Business Buyer Behavior
... The buying behavior of organizations that buy goods and services for use in the production of other products and services that are sold, rented, or supplied to others. Also included are retailing and wholesaling firms that acquire goods for the purpose of reselling or renting them to others at a ...
... The buying behavior of organizations that buy goods and services for use in the production of other products and services that are sold, rented, or supplied to others. Also included are retailing and wholesaling firms that acquire goods for the purpose of reselling or renting them to others at a ...
Advances in Financial Risk Management and Economic Policy
... presence of economic policy uncertainty. The purpose of this special issue on “Advances in Financial Risk Management and Economic Policy Uncertainty” is to highlight some areas of research in which novel econometric, financial econometric and empirical finance methods have contributed significantly ...
... presence of economic policy uncertainty. The purpose of this special issue on “Advances in Financial Risk Management and Economic Policy Uncertainty” is to highlight some areas of research in which novel econometric, financial econometric and empirical finance methods have contributed significantly ...
An excerpt from Changing Problem Behavior
... The term behavior is general and may represent any measurable action an individual exhibits. Particular instances of a behavior are called responses. We avoid speculating about redundant or fictitious constructs that cannot be observed, measured and verified, such as the so-called “mind.” The postce ...
... The term behavior is general and may represent any measurable action an individual exhibits. Particular instances of a behavior are called responses. We avoid speculating about redundant or fictitious constructs that cannot be observed, measured and verified, such as the so-called “mind.” The postce ...
This PDF is a selection from a published volume from... Research Volume Title: Demography and the Economy
... This is pretty strong stuff, yet the case he has made for the consequences of inaction is so convincing that behavioral and political responses are inevitable. Indeed, many of these changes are already underway. Labor force participation among older workers has increased in many of the older European ...
... This is pretty strong stuff, yet the case he has made for the consequences of inaction is so convincing that behavioral and political responses are inevitable. Indeed, many of these changes are already underway. Labor force participation among older workers has increased in many of the older European ...
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... lead to this conclusion. First, not all mental constructs are unobservable. For instance, conscious thoughts and feelings are directly observable, even if only by the individual who possesses those thoughts and feelings (e.g., Hayes, 1995; Skinner, 1957). Likewise, identity theorists have put forwar ...
... lead to this conclusion. First, not all mental constructs are unobservable. For instance, conscious thoughts and feelings are directly observable, even if only by the individual who possesses those thoughts and feelings (e.g., Hayes, 1995; Skinner, 1957). Likewise, identity theorists have put forwar ...
Capital structure: the Modigliani and Miller theorem, impact of taxes
... outsiders in a firm and maximize the overall efficiency of a firm’s decisions. We will also look at how the market for corporate control (takeovers) helps (or fails) to ensure that firms are governed by the most able managers (or controlling owners) and that their incentives are best aligned with sh ...
... outsiders in a firm and maximize the overall efficiency of a firm’s decisions. We will also look at how the market for corporate control (takeovers) helps (or fails) to ensure that firms are governed by the most able managers (or controlling owners) and that their incentives are best aligned with sh ...
Economic or economical?
... the dwelling we live in, the clothing we wear and the way we spend our leisure time are all affected by economic forces. Economic forces also influence decisions in the world of business. In fact, one common definition of economics is “the study of how people make living”. We have seen that economic ...
... the dwelling we live in, the clothing we wear and the way we spend our leisure time are all affected by economic forces. Economic forces also influence decisions in the world of business. In fact, one common definition of economics is “the study of how people make living”. We have seen that economic ...
Using Behavioral Economics to Analyze Credit Policies in the
... Probably, in the last decades there has not been such a bitter debate in academic research as the one related to efficiency in financial markets. Hence, we will not find a unanimous answer to that question, but in the midst of the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression, it seems unavoidab ...
... Probably, in the last decades there has not been such a bitter debate in academic research as the one related to efficiency in financial markets. Hence, we will not find a unanimous answer to that question, but in the midst of the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression, it seems unavoidab ...
Debates in Macroeconomics: Monetarism, New Classical
... function is that unexpected increases in the price level can fool workers and firms into thinking that relative prices have changed, causing them to alter the amount of labor or goods they choose to supply. ...
... function is that unexpected increases in the price level can fool workers and firms into thinking that relative prices have changed, causing them to alter the amount of labor or goods they choose to supply. ...
CHAPTER 11
... If the market is fixed (non-expansible), the organization must concentrate its resources on increasing its share of the market If the market is expansible, the organization must concentrate resources on not only increasing its share of the market, but also on growing the overall size, or margin, of ...
... If the market is fixed (non-expansible), the organization must concentrate its resources on increasing its share of the market If the market is expansible, the organization must concentrate resources on not only increasing its share of the market, but also on growing the overall size, or margin, of ...
expected marginal utility approach
... she owns to get into this bet. • It must be that people make decisions by criteria other than maximizing expected monetary payoff. Slide 5 ...
... she owns to get into this bet. • It must be that people make decisions by criteria other than maximizing expected monetary payoff. Slide 5 ...
Economics - University of Sussex
... What is Economics? Students are often drawn to study Economics through the media and national politics. Stories of boom-and-bust or stop-go Economics, of trade-offs between unemployment and inflation, stock-market crashes and financial crises in the print and broadcast media are what most people th ...
... What is Economics? Students are often drawn to study Economics through the media and national politics. Stories of boom-and-bust or stop-go Economics, of trade-offs between unemployment and inflation, stock-market crashes and financial crises in the print and broadcast media are what most people th ...
Advance Mining of Temporal High Utility Itemset
... The rationale behind mining frequent itemsets is that only itemsets with high frequency are of interest to users. However, the practical usefulness of frequent itemsets is limited by the significance of the discovered itemsets. A frequent itemset only reflects the statistical correlation between ite ...
... The rationale behind mining frequent itemsets is that only itemsets with high frequency are of interest to users. However, the practical usefulness of frequent itemsets is limited by the significance of the discovered itemsets. A frequent itemset only reflects the statistical correlation between ite ...
Redalyc. The battle of stalingrad: a behavior analytic perspective
... Stalin from the rich oil and grain deposits located in Ukraine. It was composed of a series of armored thrusts and pincer movements spearheaded by Friedrich Paulus’s Sixth Army. In its opening stages, (June and July) operation Blue was highly successful as enormous numbers of Russian soldiers and ma ...
... Stalin from the rich oil and grain deposits located in Ukraine. It was composed of a series of armored thrusts and pincer movements spearheaded by Friedrich Paulus’s Sixth Army. In its opening stages, (June and July) operation Blue was highly successful as enormous numbers of Russian soldiers and ma ...
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... That study (Marion et al. 1979) had found a strong positive relationship between market dominance at the SMSA level, as measured by four firm concentration ratios and relative firm market share, and both firm profits and prices. Such findings are not uncommon in the literature, dating back to before ...
... That study (Marion et al. 1979) had found a strong positive relationship between market dominance at the SMSA level, as measured by four firm concentration ratios and relative firm market share, and both firm profits and prices. Such findings are not uncommon in the literature, dating back to before ...
A Random Walk Down Wall Street Seventh Edition
... and the financial markets this course hopes to shed light on how rhetorical arguments shape and influence the valuation and investing process. What are the common narratives used to justify the purchase or selling of a stock? What literary forms dominate the financial press during the upswing and do ...
... and the financial markets this course hopes to shed light on how rhetorical arguments shape and influence the valuation and investing process. What are the common narratives used to justify the purchase or selling of a stock? What literary forms dominate the financial press during the upswing and do ...
Third Truths
... writes, “a definitive art of political economy, which attempts to lay down absolute rules for the regulation of human conduct, will have vaguely defined limits, and be largely non-economic in character.” (J. N. Keynes 1891: 83) “Neoclassicals” following Classical Methodology This separation of appli ...
... writes, “a definitive art of political economy, which attempts to lay down absolute rules for the regulation of human conduct, will have vaguely defined limits, and be largely non-economic in character.” (J. N. Keynes 1891: 83) “Neoclassicals” following Classical Methodology This separation of appli ...
The Imperialism of Economics Over Ethics
... such causes as protecting the environment and alleviating poverty from economically depressed localities. This investment in ethics, however, is confronted with the problem that economists have no other way to approach reality without concentrating on questions of utility. A similar phenomenon is oc ...
... such causes as protecting the environment and alleviating poverty from economically depressed localities. This investment in ethics, however, is confronted with the problem that economists have no other way to approach reality without concentrating on questions of utility. A similar phenomenon is oc ...
appendix: making and using graphs
... 1.2 THE ECONOMIC WAY OF THINKING 1. Natural experiments: A situation that arises in the ordinary course of economic life in which the one factor of interest is different and other things are equal/similar. Ex: Canada has higher unemployment benefits than US ...
... 1.2 THE ECONOMIC WAY OF THINKING 1. Natural experiments: A situation that arises in the ordinary course of economic life in which the one factor of interest is different and other things are equal/similar. Ex: Canada has higher unemployment benefits than US ...
Department of Economics Working Paper Series
... that the real costs of contracts may lie in their inflexibility. “It may be desired to make a long-term contract for the supply of some article or service,” he writes. Now, owing to the difficulty of forecasting, the longer the period of the contract is for the supply of the commodity or service, th ...
... that the real costs of contracts may lie in their inflexibility. “It may be desired to make a long-term contract for the supply of some article or service,” he writes. Now, owing to the difficulty of forecasting, the longer the period of the contract is for the supply of the commodity or service, th ...
Problem Set 3 1) Go to court or settle? Assume Alan and Anna are
... Calculate the expected utility of each gamble. What are his choices between Gamble A and B and between Gamble C and D? Interpret your findings in relation to the ...
... Calculate the expected utility of each gamble. What are his choices between Gamble A and B and between Gamble C and D? Interpret your findings in relation to the ...