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If you want people to buy more sustainable products on a regular basis, which of the following would be more effective from a behavioral perspective:

A farmer wanted to prevent wolves from attacking his sheep but did not want to kill the wolves.  He decided to put out some sheep meat laced with a chemical that would make the wolves ill when they ate it.  The wolves tried the meat a few times and then eventually avoided the meat as well as the live sheep.  In this example of classical conditioning, the unconditioned stimulus to produce aversion of eating sheep is the:

According to ecopsychologists, because there is synergy between human health and planetary health

Which of the following is an example of externalizing costs?

For people who want to do something correctly or well:

  When Obama was elected President, many people were convinced that the environment would be improved and therefore stopped pushing the government to make improvements.  This illustrates:  

According to place theory

An example of a (positive) punisher for throwing things in the trash that could be recycled would be:

Ecopsychology

  Sally has to pay for her trash by weight but does not have to pay for any recycling she produces. As a result, she recycles everything she can.  When she is at her office, she also recycles paper, although nobody there keeps track or employs a penalty for not doing so.  Thus, her paper recycling is likely because of _____________ (in behavioral terms).