In the AD-AS model, identify how each of the scenarios affects short-run aggregate supply. The U.S. government increases the minimum wage. Widespread adoption of the Internet by business increases productivity and efficiency. The government decreases the personal income tax rate paid by households.

The graph shows the relevant cost curves for a perfectly competitive firm. On the following graph, MC is marginal cost, ATC is average total cost, AVC is average variable cost, and AFC is average fixed cost. What value must the price of the good exceed for the firm to earn positive economic profits?

Mike consumes guitar picks (G) and fishing lures (L) where P=$1 and P=$2. His utility function is given by U(L,G) = LG, where MU=0.5L

Map the following argument in MindMup using another tab. After you have finished mapping this argument for Mastery Check 4.3, in MindMup, click File –> Share and type rsaucedo@lamar.edu to share your maps with me for grading, just as you did for the MindMup – Honorlock Test.“Do you think that the citizens of a rich country like the United States are obligated to give money to charity? Let’s consider this question carefully. If you came upon a child who was drowning and you could rescue this child, then you’re obligated to do so, even if this ruins your clothes. Therefore, if it’s in your power to save someone at little cost to yourself, then you’re obligate to save this person. Notice, though, that the citizens of rich countries can save a person at little cost to themselves by giving money to effective charities. That’s because the citizens of rich countries can easily afford to give a few thousand dollars to aid organization and it’s possible to save a person’s life in the developing world by giving a few thousand dollars to an effective aid organization. After all, researchers estimate that a $5,000 donation to the Against Malaria Foundation, an organization that provides anti-malarial bed nets to people in Sub-Saharan Africa, will save one life. It follows that the citizens of a rich country are obligated to give money to effective charities.”

Map the following argument in MindMup using another tab. After you have finished mapping this argument for Mastery Check 4.3, in MindMup, click File –> Share and type rsaucedo@lamar.edu to share your maps with me for grading, just as you did for the MindMup – Honorlock Test.“Colleges often allow students to select their own roommates. But a few universities, such as Duke University, randomly assign roommates to new students. How, in your opinion, should our university assign roommates? It’s clear that our university should randomly assign roommates. That’s because our university should reduce racial and economic segregation between students. After all, racial and economic segregation increases tension between students. Additionally, racial and economic segregation interferes with students’ education. Now, suppose you agree that our university should reduce racial and economic segregation between students. Well, how should our university achieve this goal? The random assignment of roommates would reduce the racial and economic segregation between students, as the random assignment of roommates would increase contact and social bonds between different kinds of students since they’d be forced to interact with one another. Thus, our university ought to randomly assign roommates.”

Map the following argument in MindMup using another tab. After you have finished mapping this argument for Mastery Check 4.3, in MindMup, click File –> Share and type rsaucedo@lamar.edu to share your maps with me for grading, just as you did for the MindMup – Honorlock Test.“Ethical relativism maintains that there are no objective moral facts, and asserts instead that right and wrong is nothing more than a matter of opinion. The most common variety of ethical relativism is cultural relativism which maintains that ethical judgments are simply expressions of a culture’s moral code. According to cultural relativism, a culture’s moral code determines what’s morally right and wrong within that culture in much the same way that a game’s rules determine what moves are permissible or impermissible within that game. Although it may appear attractive at first, cultural relativism isn’t the correct theory of ethics. First, because cultural relativism maintains that there are no cross-cultural ethical standards by which one culture can pass moral judgment on another, cultural relativism would have us believe that we can never correctly identify another culture’s practices as unethical. In at least some cases, however, we can correctly identify another culture’s practices as unethical. Didn’t we justifiably criticize Nazi Germany’s practices as unethical? Can’t we correctly judge the apartheid of South Africa to be unethical? Second, according to cultural relativism there is no such thing as moral progress because any assessment of the effect that things are better now than they used to be would require us to compare the current state of affairs to the former state of affairs using some set of objective criteria. In many instances, however, we have witnessed moral progress. Doesn’t the abolition of slavery constitute moral progress? What about the expansion of rights for women?”

Explain the example we discussed about Operant Conditioning.

Map the following argument in MindMup using another tab. After you have finished mapping this argument for Mastery Check 4.3, in MindMup, click File –> Share and type rsaucedo@lamar.edu to share your maps with me for grading, just as you did for the MindMup – Honorlock Test.“Should you fear death? Of course, many people rightly fear the process of dying and all of the pain and suffering that day may involve. But should you fear death – the state of being dead – on the assumption that there is no afterlife? In other words, should you fear your future non-existence? Although it may seem obvious that the answer to this question is “yes,” careful reflection reveals that, in fact, you shouldn’t fear death. Why not? Well, you should only actually fear something if it’s bad for you. And death isn’t bad for you. First of all, surely you agree that something can only be bad for you if it affects you. However, death (the state of being dead) doesn’t affect you. Observe that death doesn’t affect you while you’re alive because death hasn’t happened yet while you’re alive. And death doesn’t affect you when you’re dead either. After all, if death affected you when you’re dead, then it would affect you when you don’t exist and it’s impossible for something to affect you when you don’t exist. Thus, death doesn’t affect you. Perhaps you’re still not entirely convinced that death isn’t bad for you. So, here’s another argument for this claim. The time before you were born wasn’t bad for you given that you didn’t exist for billions of years before you were born and the fact that you didn’t exist for billions of years before you were born wasn’t so terrible. However, the time before you were born and the time after you die are just the same in relevant respects since both of these times are episodes of non-existence. This is another reason to believe that death, the time after you die, is also not bad for you.”

Which of the following is the most common cause of dementia? 

Scientific evidence states that human activities are causing the temperature on Earth to rise.  This environmental issue is called _______________.