Washington Failed to Push Successfully to Have His Troops Inoculated

question 9

True/False

Washington failed to push successfully to have his troops inoculated against smallpox,and as a result,he lost perhaps 10,000 men to the disease.

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Definitions:

Rescorla

Robert Rescorla, a psychologist best known for his work with Allan Wagner on the Rescorla-Wagner model of classical conditioning, focusing on the predictability of the unconditioned stimulus.

Classical Conditioning

An educational strategy where two stimuli are habitually paired together, causing a response that initially results from the second stimulus to be gradually elicited by the first stimulus.

Likelihood Of Occurrence

Refers to the probability or chance that a given event will happen.

Pairing

Associating two stimuli or events together in such a way that the occurrence or presence of one leads to the appearance of the other.