Identify and Compare the Four Reasons Why Governments Turn to Regulation

question 47

Essay

Identify and compare the four reasons why governments turn to regulation as a way to solve their problems.

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Definitions:

Conditioned Response

An automatic response established by training to an ordinarily neutral stimulus.

Little Albert

An experiment in classical conditioning where a child was conditioned to fear a white rat, demonstrating how fears can be acquired through conditioning.

Instincts

Innate, typically fixed patterns of behavior in animals in response to certain stimuli.

Extinction

The process in which a previously learned behavior diminishes or disappears as a result of the discontinuation of reinforcement or the removal of a stimulus.