If the Acceptance Strategy Is Used to Handle Every Vulnerability

question 81

True/False

If the acceptance strategy is used to handle every vulnerability in the organization, its managers may be unable to conduct proactive security activities and may portray an apathetic approach to security in general.

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Definitions:

Partial Reinforcement Effect

The tendency for a behavior to become more resistant to extinction following intermittent reinforcement than after continuous reinforcement.

Behavioral Contrast Effect

A phenomenon observed in conditioning where the response to a conditioned stimulus changes when an alternative stimulus is presented with different reinforcement conditions.

Extinction

In behavioral psychology, the process whereby a conditioned response decreases in frequency and eventually disappears as a result of the conditioned stimulus being presented without reinforcement.

Reinforcer

Any stimulus that strengthens or increases the likelihood of a behavior by its occurrence.