Which of the Following Statements Is Accurate About William Howard

question 69

Multiple Choice

Which of the following statements is accurate about William Howard Taft?

• A) Like his predecessor, Theodore Roosevelt, Taft emphasized military intervention to achieve American strategic goals in the Western Hemisphere.
• B) Taft discouraged the United Fruit Company from establishing banana plantations in Honduras.
• C) Taft believed the best way to promote American interests in the Caribbean and Central America was through economic investment.
• D) Taft coined the term, "Dollar Diplomacy" in describing the foreign policy approach of Theodore Roosevelt.

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Definitions:

Shaping

A method of behavior training in which reinforcement is given for progressively closer approximations of the desired behavior.

Classically Conditioned

A learning process that occurs through associations between an environmental stimulus and a naturally occurring stimulus.

Extinction

In behavioral psychology, the process of diminishing a conditioned response by repeatedly presenting the conditioned stimulus without the unconditioned stimulus.

Conditioned Response

A learned response to a previously neutral stimulus that has become associated with an unconditioned stimulus through classical conditioning.