Mandatory Motorcycle Helmet Laws Are Designed to Reduce the Severity

question 220

Multiple Choice

Mandatory motorcycle helmet laws are designed to reduce the severity of injuries resulting from motorcycle involvement in traffic accidents.In this sense, these mandatory helmet laws are reducing ________ of risky behavior.

• A)positive externalities
• B)negative externalities
• C)the private benefit
• D)the social benefit

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Definitions:

Fear of Heights

An anxiety disorder characterized by an extreme and irrational fear of high places, also known as acrophobia.

Primary Reinforcers

A type of reinforcement that is innately satisfying and does not require any learning to become pleasurable, such as food and water.

Secondary Reinforcers

Stimuli which become rewarding through their association with primary reinforcers.

Shaping

A method of behavior training in which reinforcement is given for progressively closer approximations of the desired behavior.