Adolf Hitler Was Able to Create a Powerful Unified State

question 16

Multiple Choice

Adolf Hitler was able to create a powerful unified state in Germany, in part, by blaming ethnic minorities for the country's problems and promoting the idea of "ethnically German" people as different and superior. This made the idea of persecuting minorities and expanding German dominance over Europe seem like a reasonable course of action. What do we call this feeling of belonging and superiority?

• A) social cohesion
• B) militarization
• C) nationalism
• D) racism

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Definitions:

Higher-Order Conditioning

A conditioning process where a stimulus that's associated with a conditioned stimulus also becomes a conditioned stimulus itself.

Spontaneous Recovery

The reappearance of an extinguished response (in a weaker form) when an organism is exposed to the original conditioned stimulus following a rest period.

Extinction

In behavioral psychology, the process by which a conditioned response decreases in frequency and eventually disappears after the conditioned stimulus is repeatedly presented without the unconditioned stimulus.

Conditioned Response

A learned response to a previously neutral stimulus that becomes associated with a significant stimulus.