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question 54

Short Answer

Case 5.2: R. Jeffrey Smith, "DeLay PAC Is Indicted for Illegal Donations: Corporate Gifts Aided GOP in Texas Races"
-If you were a judge in this case, how would you determine which laws had been broken, who deserved to be indicted, and who would have to be sentenced or pay a fine? Can you see a way to stop this sort of corruption in the future, or is this type of crossover between money and politics inevitable given our political system?

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Definitions:

Learning

A relatively permanent change in behavior potential that occurs as a result of experience.

Learned Helplessness

A scenario in which an individual is plagued by feelings of helplessness, caused by either a distressing event or repeated failures to accomplish their goals.

Seligman

Known for his work on learned helplessness and its connection to depression, proposing that it results from a perceived lack of control over the outcome of a situation.

Concept

An abstract idea or a mental symbol used to represent something that is recognized and understood based on specific characteristics.