The Interwar Period May Be Viewed as a Series of Failures

question 20

Multiple Choice

The interwar period may be viewed as a series of failures typified by all of the following EXCEPT the:

• A) collapse of democracies across Europe.
• B) failure of capitalism in the Great Depression.
• C) failure of the League of Nations to deal with totalitarian regimes.
• D) apprehension and dread with which most people looked to the future.
• E) failure of new authoritarian regimes to establish a sense of political legitimacy.

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Definitions:

Operant Conditioning

A process of influence in learning where the magnitude of behavior is adjusted by means of rewards or corrections.

Lever Pressing

An experimental task used in behaviorism to study learning and conditioning, where subjects press a lever to receive a reward.

Dependent Variable

The variable in an experiment that is tested and measured, often seen as the effect or outcome influenced by the independent variable.

Classical Conditioning

A learning process that occurs through associations between an environmental stimulus and a naturally occurring stimulus, famously demonstrated by Pavlov's dogs experiment.