Under Benjamin Harrison and Other Administrations of the Late Nineteenth

question 42

Multiple Choice

Under Benjamin Harrison and other administrations of the late nineteenth century, the center of political initiative and power was generally

• A) Congress.
• B) the president.
• C) the Supreme Court.
• D) the federal bureaucracy.
• E) the states.

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Definitions:

Food-deprived Rats

Rodents that have been subjected to a period without food to study various behaviors or physiological responses.

Reinforcers

Stimuli that increase the probability of a response when they follow that response, a key concept in behaviorism.

Respondent Behavior

A type of behavior that is elicited as an automatic response to a certain stimulus without the organism engaging in any conscious decision making.

Operant Behavior

A method of learning that employs rewards and punishments for behavior, emphasizing the strength of behaviors as a result of their consequences.