What Is the Primary Task of the Texas Secretary of State

question 17

Multiple Choice

What is the primary task of the Texas secretary of state?

• A) to oversee the state's foreign, economic, and diplomatic policy
• B) to handle elections and voter registration
• C) to collect child-support payments
• D) to coordinate and plan projects in conjunction with the federal government

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Definitions:

Conditioning

An approach to modifying behavior by teaching a subject to connect a favorable behavior with a stimulus that was initially unrelated.

Extinction

In behavioral psychology, the gradual decrease and eventual elimination of a conditioned response when it is no longer reinforced.

Unconditioned Stimulus

A stimulus that naturally triggers a response without the need for prior learning.

Conditioned Stimulus

A previously neutral stimulus that, after being associated with an unconditioned stimulus, comes to elicit a conditioned response.