The Rule of Law Imposing Vicarious Liability on an Innocent

question 2

True/False

The rule of law imposing vicarious liability on an innocent employer for the wrong of an employee is known as the doctrine of respondeat superior.

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Definitions:

Vicarious Conditioning

Learning that occurs by observing the reactions of others to an environmental stimulus rather than through direct experience.

Tabula Rasa

A theory suggesting that individuals are born without built-in mental content, and all knowledge comes from experience or perception.

Associative Learning

A learning process in which a new experience is connected with a previously unrelated stimulus, leading to a change in behavior.

Classical Conditioning

An educational process where two signals are consistently linked together; initially, the response is triggered by the second signal but over time, it starts being triggered by the first signal alone.