Principles of Microeconomics: Explain Error

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When students make a common mistake in answering a question in our Principles of Microeconomics software, the program’s artificial intelligence pinpoints their exact error and provides detailed feedback to correct the mistake.

The software not only tells students what they got wrong, but why they’re wrong—letting students immediately fix their errors before committing them to memory.

This feedback is provided through the tool Explain Error. View examples of it below!

Example from Chapter 3: Demand and Supply

In the following question, we ask students to calculate the change in quantity demanded of apples. To solve for this, students will need to know the formula for cross price elasticity of demand.

Explain Error will provide this formula, and in this scenario we also identify that the student made a simple math error when solving for the quantity demanded of apples by dividing the cross-price elasticity (given) by the % change in price of oranges (given), rather than multiplying those two values.

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Examples from Chapter 5: Elasticity

We provide specific feedback to help students who are struggling to apply the concept of elasticity to labor supply by explaining how a change in wages will or will not impact the job mentioned in the question.

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Examples from Chapter 9: Monopoly

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Principles of Microeconomics

0. Math Review
1. Welcome to Economics
2. Choice in a World of Scarcity
3. Demand and Supply
4. Labor and Financial Markets
5. Elasticity
6. Consumer Choices
7. Production, Costs, and Industry Structure
8. Perfect Competition
9. Monopoly
10. Monopolistic Competition and Oligopoly
11. Monopoly and Antitrust Policy
12. Environmental Protection and Negative Externalities
13. Positive Externalities and Public Goods
14. Labor Markets and Income
15. Poverty and Economic Inequality
16. Information, Risk, and Insurance
17. Financial Markets
18. Public Economy
19. International Trade
20. Globalization and Protectionism

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Introduction to Psychology

1. Psychological Science
2. Biopsychology
3. States of Consciousness
4. Sensation and Perception
5. Learning
6. Thinking and Intelligence
7. Memory
8. Lifespan Development
9. Emotion and Motivation
10. Personality
11. Social Psychology
12. Industrial-Organizational Psychology
13. Stress, Lifestyle, and Health
14. Psychological Disorders
15. Therapy and Treatment

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Introducing Our NEW Principles of Microeconomics Course

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Principles of Microeconomics in iPad Principles of Microeconomics helps students gain a broad understanding of microeconomics concepts. This engaging, interactive course takes students through all the main microeconomics topics.

Through multimodal instruction, interactive practice, and real-world examples, students learn to think as economists and apply basic micro principles to the situations around them.

Included in this new course is a chapter covering fundamental math concepts for students to review before delving into the economics topics that build off that necessary knowledge.

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Introduction to Psychology in iPad Introduction to Psychology offers students a comprehensive guide to core psychological concepts. Aligned with APA learning outcomes, the course emphasizes disciplinary diversity and the skeptical habits of a scientific mind. It features engaging, interactive practice and contemporary, multimodal learning that foster a meaningful exploration of a vast and growing field.

In a conversational tone, Introduction to Psychology leads students to a foundational and relevant understanding of psychology through a consistent focus on applying concepts in their own lives.

10.1	What Is Personality?
10.2	Freud and the Psychodynamic Perspective
10.3	Neo-Freudians: Adler, Erikson, Jung, and Horney
10.4	Learning Approaches
10.5	Humanistic Approaches
10.6	Biological Approaches
10.7	Trait Theorists
10.8	Cultural Understandings of Personality
10.9	Personality Assessment
Chapter 10 Review	Chapter 10 Review

Chapter 11: Social Psychology

11.1	What Is Social Psychology?
11.2	Self-presentation
11.3	Attitudes and Persuasion
11.4	Conformity, Compliance, and Obedience
11.5	Prejudice and Discrimination
11.6	Aggression
11.7	Prosocial Behavior
Chapter 11 Review	Chapter 11 Review

Chapter 12: Industrial-Organizational Psychology

12.1	What Is Industrial and Organizational Psychology?
12.2	Industrial Psychology: Selecting and Evaluating Employees
12.3	Organizational Psychology: The Social Dimension of Work
12.4	Human Factors Psychology and Workplace Design
Chapter 12 Review	Chapter 12 Review

Chapter 13: Stress, Lifestyle, and Health

13.1	What Is Stress?
13.2	Stressors
13.3	Stress and Illness
13.4	Regulation of Stress
13.5	The Pursuit of Happiness
Chapter 13 Review	Chapter 13 Review

Chapter 14: Psychological Disorders

14.1	What Are Psychological Disorders?
14.2	Diagnosing and Classifying Psychological Disorders
14.3	Perspectives on Psychological Disorders
14.4	Anxiety Disorders
14.5	Obsessive-Compulsive and Related Disorders
14.6	Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
14.7	Mood Disorders
14.8	Schizophrenia
14.9	Dissociative Disorders
14.10	Personality Disorders
14.11	Disorders in Childhood
Chapter 14 Review	Chapter 14 Review

Chapter 15: Therapy and Treatment

15.1	Mental Health Treatment: Past and Present
15.2	Types of Treatment
15.3	Treatment Modalities
15.4	Substance-Related and Addictive Disorders: A Special Case
15.5	The Sociocultural Model and Therapy Utilization
Chapter 15 Review	Chapter 15 Review

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0.1	Addition and Subtraction
0.2	Multiplication and Division
0.3	Order of Operations
0.4	Algebraic Expressions
0.5	Basics of Percent
0.6	Linear Equations
0.7	Graphing
0.8	Calculating Area
Chapter 0 Review	Chapter 0 Review

1.1	What Is Economics, and Why Is It Important?
1.2	Economic Theories, Models, and Systems
Chapter 1 Review	Chapter 1 Review

2.1	How Individuals Make Choices Based on Their Budget Constraint
2.2	The Production Possibilities Frontier and Social Choices
2.3	Confronting Objections to the Economic Approach
Chapter 2 Review	Chapter 2 Review

3.1	Demand, Supply, and Equilibrium in Markets for Goods and Services
3.2	Shifts in Demand and Supply for Goods and Services
3.3	Changes in Equilibrium Price and Quantity: The Four-Step Process
3.4	Price Ceilings and Price Floors
3.5	Demand, Supply, and Efficiency
Chapter 3 Review	Chapter 3 Review

4.1	Demand and Supply at Work in Labor Markets
4.2	Demand and Supply in Financial Markets
4.3	The Market System as an Efficient Mechanism for Information
Chapter 4 Review	Chapter 4 Review

5.1	Price Elasticity of Demand and Price Elasticity of Supply
5.2	Polar Cases of Elasticity and Constant Elasticity
5.3	Elasticity and Pricing
5.4	Elasticity in Areas Other Than Price
Chapter 5 Review	Chapter 5 Review

6.1	Consumption Choices
6.2	How Changes in Income and Prices Affect Consumption Choices
6.3	Behavioral Economics: An Alternative Framework for Consumer Choice
Chapter 6 Review	Chapter 6 Review

7.1	Explicit and Implicit Costs, and Accounting and Economic Profit
7.2	Production in the Short Run
7.3	Costs in the Short Run
7.4	Production in the Long Run
7.5	Costs in the Long Run
Chapter 7 Review	Chapter 7 Review

8.1	Perfect Competition and Why It Matters
8.2	How Perfectly Competitive Firms Make Output Decisions
8.3	Entry and Exit Decisions in the Long Run
8.4	Efficiency in Perfectly Competitive Markets
Chapter 8 Review	Chapter 8 Review

9.1	How Monopolies Form: Barriers to Entry
9.2	How a Profit-Maximizing Monopoly Chooses Output and Price
Chapter 9 Review	Chapter 9 Review

10.1	Monopolistic Competition
10.2	Oligopoly
Chapter 10 Review	Chapter 10 Review

11.1	Corporate Mergers
11.2	Regulating Anticompetitive Behavior
11.3	Regulating Natural Monopolies
11.4	The Great Deregulation Experiment
Chapter 11 Review	Chapter 11 Review

12.1	The Economics of Pollution
12.2	Policies to Reduce Pollution
12.3	The Benefits and Costs of US Environmental Laws
12.4	International Environmental Issues
12.5	The Tradeoff between Economic Output and Environmental Protection
Chapter 12 Review	Chapter 12 Review

13.1	Why the Private Sector Underinvests in Innovation
13.2	How Governments Can Encourage Innovation
13.3	Public Goods
Chapter 13 Review	Chapter 13 Review

14.1	The Theory of Labor Markets
14.2	Wages and Employment in an Imperfectly Competitive Labor Market
14.3	Market Power on the Supply Side of Labor Markets
14.4	Employment Discrimination
14.5	Immigration
Chapter 14 Review	Chapter 14 Review

17.1	How Businesses Raise Financial Capital
17.2	How Households Supply Financial Capital
17.3	How to Accumulate Personal Wealth
Chapter 17 Review	Chapter 17 Review

18.1	Voter Participation and Costs of Elections
18.2	Special Interest Politics
18.3	Flaws in the Democratic System of Government
Chapter 18 Review	Chapter 18 Review

19.1	Absolute and Comparative Advantage
19.2	What Happens When a Country Has an Absolute Advantage in All Goods
19.3	Intra-industry Trade between Similar Economies
19.4	The Benefits of Reducing Barriers to International Trade
Chapter 19 Review	Chapter 19 Review

20.1	Protectionism: An Indirect Subsidy from Consumers to Producers
20.2	International Trade and its Effects on Jobs, Wages, and Working Conditions
20.3	Arguments in Support of Restricting Imports
20.4	Trade Policy
Chapter 20 Review	Chapter 20 Review

15.1	Drawing the Poverty Line
15.2	The Poverty Trap
15.3	The Safety Net
15.4	Income Inequality: Measurement and Causes
15.5	Government Policies to Reduce Income Inequality
Chapter 15 Review	Chapter 15 Review

16.1	The Problem of Imperfect Information and Asymmetric Information
16.2	Insurance and Imperfect Information
Chapter 16 Review	Chapter 16 Review

1.1	What is Psychology?
1.2	Contemporary Psychology
1.3	Why Is Research Important?
1.4	Approaches to Research
1.5	Analyzing Findings
1.6	Ethics
Chapter 1 Review	Chapter 1 Review

2.1	Human Genetics
2.2	Cells of the Nervous System
2.3	Parts of the Nervous System
2.4	The Brain and Spinal Cord
2.5	The Endocrine System
Chapter 2 Review	Chapter 2 Review

3.1	What Is Consciousness?
3.2	Sleep and Why We Sleep
3.3	Stages of Sleep
3.4	Sleep Problems and Disorders
3.5	Substance Use and Abuse
3.6	Other States of Consciousness
Chapter 3 Review	Chapter 3 Review

4.1	Sensation versus Perception
4.2	Waves and Wavelengths
4.3	Vision
4.4	Hearing
4.5	The Other Senses
4.6	Gestalt Principles of Perception
Chapter 4 Review	Chapter 4 Review

5.1	What Is Learning?
5.2	Classical Conditioning
5.3	Operant Conditioning
5.4	Observational Learning (Modeling)
Chapter 5 Review	Chapter 5 Review

6.1	What Is Cognition?
6.2	Language
6.3	Problem Solving
6.4	What Are Intelligence and Creativity?
6.5	Measures of Intelligence
6.6	The Source of Intelligence
Chapter 6 Review	Chapter 6 Review

7.1	How Memory Functions
7.2	Parts of the Brain Involved with Memory
7.3	Problems with Memory
7.4	Ways to Enhance Memory
Chapter 7 Review	Chapter 7 Review

8.1	What Is Lifespan Development?
8.2	Lifespan Theories
8.3	Stages of Development
8.4	Death and Dying
Chapter 8 Review	Chapter 8 Review

Example from Chapter 3: Demand and Supply

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Examples from Chapter 5: Elasticity

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Examples from Chapter 9: Monopoly

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Table of Contents:

Chapter 0: Math Review

Chapter 1: Welcome To Economics

Chapter 2: Choice in a World of Scarcity

Chapter 3: Demand and Supply

Chapter 4: Labor and Financial Markets

Chapter 5: Elasticity

Chapter 6: Consumer Choices

Chapter 7: Production, Costs, and Industry Structure

Chapter 8: Perfect Competition

Chapter 9: Monopoly

Chapter 10: Monopolistic Competition and Oligopoly

Chapter 11: Monopoly and Antitrust Policy

Chapter 12: Environmental Protection and Negative Externalities

Chapter 13: Positive Externalities and Public Goods

Chapter 14: Labor Markets And Income

Chapter 15: Poverty and Economic Inequality

Chapter 16: Information, Risk, and Insurance

Chapter 17: Financial Markets

Chapter 18: Public Economy

Chapter 19: International Trade

Chapter 20: Globalization and Protectionism

Table of Contents:

Chapter 1: Psychological Science

Chapter 2: Biopsychology

Chapter 3: States of Consciousness

Chapter 4: Sensation and Perception

Chapter 5: Learning

Chapter 6: Thinking and Intelligence

Chapter 7: Memory

Chapter 8: Lifespan Development

Chapter 9: Emotion and Motivation

Chapter 10: Personality

Chapter 11: Social Psychology

Chapter 12: Industrial-Organizational Psychology

Chapter 13: Stress, Lifestyle, and Health

Chapter 14: Psychological Disorders

Chapter 15: Therapy and Treatment

9.1	Motivation
9.2	Hunger and Eating
9.3	Sexual Behavior
9.4	Emotion
Chapter 9 Review	Chapter 9 Review