List What Appears to You to Have Been the Requirements

question 87

Essay

List what appears to you to have been the requirements for election to high political office in the 1870s and 1880s. How did these seemingly extra-Constitutional requirements affect the quality, preparedness, and priorities of those candidates for high political office during this period?

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Definitions:

Second-order Conditioning

A form of learning where a stimulus that was previously neutral is associated with a conditioned stimulus to elicit the same conditioned response, without the original unconditioned stimulus.

Habituation

A procedure in which a life form diminishes or halts its response to a recurring stimulus as time goes by.

Sensitization

The process where repeated administration of a stimulus results in the progressive amplification of a response.

Higher-order Conditioning

A conditioning process in which a stimulus that's already associated with a reflex becomes associated with a new, neutral stimulus.