What Is a Trade Association

question 45

Multiple Choice

What is a trade association?

• A) a coalition of public interest groups in a specific policy area, such as environmental policy
• B) an organization that coordinates exchanges of information and resources among multiple interest groups
• C) a type of labor union
• D) an organization that represents businesses within a specific industry
• E) an organization that represents the federal government during the negotiation of international trade agreements

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Definitions:

Accommodation Strategy

A cognitive process described by Piaget, where individuals adjust their existing schemas or develop new ones to incorporate new information.

Assimilating

The process of absorbing new information into our previously existing schemas or understanding, especially noted in the context of learning and cognitive development.

Transitivity

In mathematics, a property indicating that if a relation holds between a and b, and b and c, then it also holds between a and c. In linguistics, it refers to a property of verbs that require both a subject and one or more objects.

Principle

A fundamental truth or proposition that serves as the foundation for a system of belief or behavior or for a chain of reasoning.