What Preparatory Step May Be Necessary When Devising a Strategy

question 42

Multiple Choice

What preparatory step may be necessary when devising a strategy or plan of action?

• A) purchasing walking shoes for a fitness class
• B) selecting a behavior to change
• C) rewarding yourself with a movie
• D) determining which events trigger the behavior

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Definitions:

Bought Titles

The practice of purchasing noble titles, historically common in some societies, allowing individuals to gain nobility status through financial means.

Despotic Practice

Actions or policies of a ruler or government exhibiting absolute power and often cruel, oppressive, or tyrannical control over its subjects.

Absolutism

A political theory and form of government where unlimited, complete power is held by a centralized sovereign individual, without checks or balances from any other part of the state or government.

Ottoman Empire

A historical empire founded at the end of the 13th century in northwestern Anatolia by the Turkish tribal leader Osman, lasting until the end of World War I.