Explain How the Courts Determine Whether a Duty of Care

question 54

Essay

Explain how the courts determine whether a duty of care exists in a negligence action.

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Definitions:

Operant Conditioning

A method of learning that occurs through rewards and punishments for behavior, influencing the likelihood of that behavior being repeated.

Pavlovian Conditioning

A form of learning in which a neutral stimulus comes to elicit a response after being paired with a stimulus that naturally brings about that response.

Classical Conditioning

A conditioning technique where, through recurrent pairing of two stimuli, a reaction initially caused by the second stimulus is eventually caused by the first stimulus alone.

Species-Specific

Pertaining or unique to a particular species.