Why Was Alexis De Tocqueville Interested in Visiting the United

question 16

Multiple Choice

Why was Alexis de Tocqueville interested in visiting the United States?

• A) To help establish a cotton mill in Waltham
• B) To investigate American democracy
• C) To find a location where he could hide from the French secret police
• D) To demonstrate that American society was teetering on collapse and headed for another revolution
• E) To investigate the causes of the long economic depression that had caused so much hardship in the new nation

---

Definitions:

Secondary Reinforcer

A reinforcer that acquires its positive value through an organism’s experience; a secondary reinforcer is a learned or conditioned reinforcer.

Positive Value

Something that is considered beneficial, desirable, or of worth according to individual or societal standards.

Organism's Experience

The subjective events and phenomena that occur within the life of a living entity.

Negative Reinforcement

A behavioral learning concept where the removal of an undesirable stimulus strengthens a behavior.