Wilson Once Remarked That He Was "Going to Teach the South

question 63

Essay

Wilson once remarked that he was "going to teach the South American republics to elect good men." Do you think that this was a proper function for the president of the United States? Why or why not? Use U.S. relations with Mexico to illustrate your view.

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Definitions:

Establishing

The process of founding or creating something firmly, such as rules, principles, or relationships, in a definitive manner.

Operant Conditioning

A system of learning where behavior modification is achieved through incentivization or disciplinary measures.

Classical Conditioning

A learning process first described by Ivan Pavlov, in which an organism comes to associate two stimuli, leading to a change in behavior.

Observational Learning

Learning that occurs through observing the behavior of others and the outcomes of those behaviors, without direct personal experience.