How Might the Establishment of Wildlife Refuges and International Treaties

question 37

Multiple Choice

How might the establishment of wildlife refuges and international treaties to protect endangered species actually increase their vulnerability and hasten their extinction?

• A) By accentuating their scarcity
• B) By driving up their value
• C) By making them a "positional good"
• D) All of the above

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Definitions:

Operant Conditioning

A learning process in which behavior is strengthened or weakened by the consequences, such as rewards or punishments.

Behaviorism

The view that psychology should be an objective science that studies behavior without reference to mental processes. Most psychologists today agree with the first part but not with the second part.

Spontaneous Recovery

The reappearance, after a pause, of an extinguished conditioned response.

Generalization

The tendency, once a response has been conditioned, for stimuli similar to the conditioned stimulus to elicit similar responses. In operant conditioning, generalization occurs when responses learned in one situation occur in other, similar situations.