Protectionism Is Best Defined as

question 40

Multiple Choice

Protectionism is best defined as

• A) using tariffs, quotas, or other barriers to trade to protect domestic jobs.
• B) reducing barriers to trade in order to protect firms that export to other nations.
• C) using low-cost loans from the government to encourage industries to offshore their operations to other nations.
• D) protecting workers from layoffs by subsidizing industries in danger of reducing their workforces.

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Definitions:

Active Listening

A technique of listening that involves paying full attention, understanding, responding, and then remembering what is being said.

Strong Feelings

Intense emotional reactions or attachments to situations, events, or people.

Classical Conditioning

A learning process where a natural response to a stimulus becomes triggered by a previously neutral stimulus through associative learning.

Behavior Therapies

A broad range of techniques and therapeutic methods used to change maladaptive behaviors, grounded in the principles of behavioral psychology.