Geeta Was One of Several Hundred People Who Received Tainted

question 28

True/False

Geeta was one of several hundred people who received tainted blood from a hospital that carelessly collected and stored blood.Although each of the victims will be able to make essentially the same arguments against the hospital, a court will, as a general rule, not certify a class action unless each of the victims also intends to claim roughly the same amount of damages.

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Definitions:

Behavior Modification

A method of therapy rooted in operant conditioning principles, which aims to substitute negative behaviors with positive ones using either rewards or penalties.

Classical Conditioning

The procedure of learning through continual pairing of two stimuli; a behavior that initially results from the second stimulus later results from only the first stimulus.

Instinctive Drift

The inclination of an animal to return to innate behaviors that disrupt a learned reaction.

Extinction

The gradual weakening and eventual disappearance of a learned response.