The Length of Time Required to Develop an Administrative Rule

question 54

True/False

The length of time required to develop an administrative rule from a proposal to actual publication in the Federal Register grew from an average of fifteen months to an average of thirty-five to forty months during the 1970s and 1980s.

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Definitions:

Operant Conditioning

A form of learning in which a voluntary response is strengthened or weakened by its association with positive or negative consequences.

Voluntary Response

A behavioral action that is performed willingly and without coercion.

Classical Conditioning

A learning process in which a biologically potent stimulus is paired with a previously neutral stimulus to elicit a response.

Neutral Stimulus

A stimulus that initially produces no specific response other than focusing attention in classical conditioning.