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Which of the Following Illustrates Consumers' Rights to Safe Products

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Which of the following illustrates consumers' rights to safe products?
Clothing must be labelled with information about its proper care.
A new vacuum cleaner must be free of electrical hazards while in use cleaning a consumer's home.
There must be open competition in the marketplace.
Procter & Gamble provides a toll-free telephone number for consumers to use for complaints or questions.
Food products must list their ingredients.

Understand the primary sources and types of water pollutants.
Identify the indicators of water pollution.
Differentiate between point and nonpoint sources of water pollution.
Recognize the ecological impacts of different pollutants on water bodies.

Definitions:

Behavior Modification

The application of operant-conditioning techniques to teach new responses or to reduce or eliminate maladaptive or problematic behavior; also called applied behavior analysis.

Puzzle Boxes

Experimental devices used in animal learning research, where an animal must solve a problem or manipulate mechanisms to escape or obtain a reward.

Thorndike

An American psychologist who developed the law of effect, which states that behaviors followed by positive outcomes are likely to be repeated, while those followed by negative outcomes are not.

Skinner Box

An experimental apparatus developed by B.F. Skinner for studying behavioral conditioning in animals, particularly through the use of reinforcements.

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