What Is Wisdom? What Characteristics Make a Person Wise? Identify

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Essay

What is wisdom? What characteristics make a person wise? Identify someone (living or dead) who you think has/had wisdom, and discuss why you think that person is/was wise.

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Definitions:

Successive Approximations

A behavior modification technique involving the reinforcement of behaviors that are progressively closer to the desired behavior.

Reinforcing

The process of strengthening a behavior by providing a consequence that the individual finds rewarding.

Punishing

The act of imposing a penalty or negative consequence for an undesirable action or behavior, with the intent of reducing or eliminating that behavior.

Classical Conditioning

A learning process that occurs when two stimuli are repeatedly paired; a response that is at first elicited by the second stimulus is eventually elicited by the first stimulus alone.