The '"Fleeing Felon' Rule' Refers to the Now Obsolete Common

question 21

True/False

The '"fleeing felon' rule' refers to the now obsolete common law rule that police can use deadly force against any felon who flees the scene of a crime.

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Definitions:

Reinforcement Principles

Psychological concepts that involve strengthening a behavior by providing a desirable consequence or removing an undesirable one.

Stimulus Generalization

The process by which a conditioned response is triggered by stimuli that are similar but not identical to the original conditioned stimulus.

White Rats

Laboratory rats, often of the albino variety, used in research and experiments.

Classical Conditioning

In this learning approach, two stimuli are repeatedly linked, and a reaction that starts out being caused by the second stimulus is in time caused by just the first stimulus.