Applied to Pollution Cases, Public Nuisance Is

question 443

Multiple Choice

Applied to pollution cases, public nuisance is:

• A) an unreasonable interference with the community's right to a reasonably clean and safe environment
• B) a term applied to a polluter who causes damage to the air
• C) a concept no longer used because of the Clean Air Act
• D) an unreasonable interference with a right held an individual
• E) repealed by the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act

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Definitions:

Induced Compliance

A special case of cognitive dissonance: inconsistency is experienced when a person is persuaded to behave in a way that is contrary to an attitude.

Cognitive Dissonance

The psychological discomfort experienced by an individual who holds two or more contradictory beliefs, ideas, or values at the same time.

Inoculation

A way of making people resistant to persuasion. By providing them with a diluted counter-argument, they can build up effective refutations to a later, stronger argument.

Reactance

Brehm’s theory that people try to protect their freedom to act. When they perceive that this freedom has been curtailed, they will act to regain it.