You Have an Idea to Open a Rooftop Restaurant in the Downtown

question 79

Multiple Choice

You have an idea to open a rooftop restaurant in the downtown area of your community, as none currently exists. However, after some investigation you discover that any rooftop restaurant would violate city regulations. What makes this an abnormal circumstance?

• A) Innovation
• B) Market failure
• C) Intervention
• D) Goals other than profit

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Definitions:

Spontaneous Recovery

The reappearance of a learned response after extinction has occurred.

Counterconditioning

A therapy technique used to replace an undesired response to a stimulus with a desired response, by associating the stimulus with a new, more desirable behavior.

Instinctive Drift

The tendency of an animal to revert to instinctive behaviors that interfere with a conditioned response.

Stimulus Discrimination

The tendency to stop making a generalized response to a stimulus that is similar to the original conditioned stimulus because the similar stimulus is never paired with the unconditioned stimulus.