State Mandates Is a Process Where

question 54

Multiple Choice

State mandates is a process where

• A)local governments have significant flexibility to solve problems and are provided sufficient funding to address those problems.
• B)the state directs local government on how to solve a problem and, at the same time, ensures uniformity of policy among its local governments.
• C)the state only repeats the guidance it has received from the federal government.
• D)the state provides guidance but then defers to local government preferences.

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Definitions:

Classical Conditioning

A learning process that occurs through associations between an environmental stimulus and a naturally occurring stimulus.

Evoked Responses

Electrical potentials recorded from the nervous system following presentation of a stimulus, used to assess sensory function and neural pathways.

Extinction

The process by which stimuli lose their ability to evoke learned responses because the events that had followed the stimuli no longer occur. The learned responses are said to be extinguished.

Operant Conditioning

A method of learning that occurs through rewards and punishments for behavior, aiming at increasing or decreasing specific behaviors.