An Example Cited by the Text of How Grassroots Opposition

question 30

Multiple Choice

An example cited by the text of how grassroots opposition to a governmental action can influence Congress is

• A) the Food and Drug Administration's banning of saccharin.
• B) the Forest Service's banning of campfires in national parks.
• C) the Environmental Protection Agency's approval of acid rain.
• D) the Central Intelligence Agency's approval of strategic assassination.
• E) the Internal Revenue Service's approval of electronic filing.

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Definitions:

Fixed-ratio Schedule

A type of reinforcement schedule in operant conditioning where a response is reinforced only after a specified number of responses, leading to a high and steady rate of responding.

Classical Conditioning

Classical Conditioning is a learning process that occurs through associations between an environmental stimulus and a naturally occurring stimulus, famously illustrated by Pavlov's dogs experiment.

Unconditioned Stimulus

In classical conditioning, an unconditioned stimulus is something that naturally and automatically triggers a response without any learning process involved.

Unconditioned Response

An automatic, natural reaction to a stimulus that occurs without prior learning or conditioning.