When Teddy Roosevelt Called the Presidency a "Bully Pulpit," He

question 258

Multiple Choice

When Teddy Roosevelt called the presidency a "bully pulpit," he meant that

• A) only the president can speak for the nation and set the tone for government.
• B) the role of commander-in-chief makes it easy for the president to bully Congress.
• C) the president, like a preacher in a pulpit, had to remind the public of its moral and religious obligations.
• D) the president had very little real power over the executive branch.
• E) he really enjoyed being president.

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Definitions:

Phobia Learning

The process by which an irrational fear is acquired, often through classical conditioning or a traumatic experience.

Classical Conditioning

An acquisition of knowledge through the consistent coupling of two stimuli, wherein a response originally induced by the second stimulus is ultimately induced by the first stimulus on its own.

Conditioned Stimulus

An initially neutral stimulus that, after being associated with an unconditioned stimulus, elicits a conditioned response.

Unconditioned Stimulus

A stimulus that naturally triggers a reflexive response without any prior learning in classical conditioning.