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Decide whether each of the following scenarios describes an example of mechanism design, a default option nudge, an information nudge, encouragement nudge, or a push policy.

a. A college professor has the college bookstore order the textbook bundled with the Study Guide, which is optional for the course, and then tells her students on the first day of class that they can purchase the textbook by itself from the publisher if they want to.

b. A second-grade teacher puts gold stars on the spelling tests earning As.

c. A college professor develops a way of curving exams that cleverly gives students in his Monday/Wednesday section a disincentive from sharing information about the exam with the students in his Tuesday/Thursday section.

d. An elementary school principal sends out a memo telling the teachers that they must start using either gold stars or smiley face stickers on all "A" work.

e. A college professor allows her students to forgo the regular grade composition and instead earn their entire grade based on the final exam, if they submit their choice to her in writing.f. 

f. A junior high hangs up signs indicating the relatively low incidence of smoking and illegal drug use among junior high students.