What Are the Various Individual Factors That Make a Person

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Essay

What are the various individual factors that make a person more likely to engage in political behavior?

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Definitions:

Habituation

The psychological process by which an individual becomes accustomed to a stimulus and consequently responds less to it over time.

Discrimination

Unjust or prejudicial treatment of different categories of people, often based on race, age, sex, or disability.

Extinction

Eliminating the conditioned response.

Ivan Pavlov

A Russian physiologist best known for his work in classical conditioning, particularly his experiments with dogs that led to the concept of the conditioned reflex.