A Project Involving Alternative Methods of Financing Daycare Is Proposed

question 12

Multiple Choice

A project involving alternative methods of financing daycare is proposed in a federal legislature.Which of the following statements would a Burkean conservative most likely make?

• A) "A similar project failed ten years ago, so we should not bother trying again."
• B) "We have never done a project like this, so we should try, and see what happens."
• C) "A similar project worked in a different country, so we should go ahead and try it here."
• D) "There is popular demand and widespread support for this project, so we should try it."

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Definitions:

Proactive Interference

A situation where earlier memories hinder the ability to remember more recent memories.

Parallel-Distributed Processing

A model of information processing in which data is processed simultaneously by multiple pathways or networks, resembling the processing that occurs in the human brain.

Personally Relevant

Pertaining to or having a direct significance or importance to an individual's own life or interests.

Retrieval

The act of making stored memory information conscious and accessible.