Compare and Contrast Ronald Reagan as a Leader and Agent

question 45

Essay

Compare and contrast Ronald Reagan as a leader and agent of political change in the 1980s with that of Franklin D.Roosevelt in the 1930s.

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Definitions:

B.F.Skinner

An American psychologist known for his work in behaviorism, particularly the development of the theory of operant conditioning, which relates behaviors to their consequences.

Operant Conditioning

A learning framework in which the force of a behavior is altered by the administration of rewards or corrective actions.

Spontaneous Recovery

A conditioned response that had been eliminated reemerges after a time without any contact with the stimulus that initially created it.

Respondent Behavior

Behavior that occurs in response to specific stimuli and is usually conditioned by previous experiences.