a) Identify ONE specific example of how historians might argue that the end of the Cold War was attributable to Reagan's
policies and US pressure.
b) Identify ONE specific example of how historians might argue that the end of the Cold War was attributable to Gorbacher's
leadership
c) Identify ONE reason (other than partisanship), based on the events of the last decade of the Cold War, that historians
might still debate the respective influences of Reagan and Gorbachev on the end of the Cold War.

Answer:

A. One example that historians might argue that the end of the cold war was attributable to Reagans policies and US pressure is that Reagan when in his last year of presidency was in a press conference and said he was the supporting actor of the end of the cold war. 

B. Historians may argue Gorbachev ended the cold war because during the press conference Reagan says the end of the cold war was most credited to Gorbachev for being the leader of his country. 

C. One reason that historians may argue who is attributable to the end of the cold war is that it wasn't as simple one person they both contributed therefore, it's a matter of who's strategy was better.  

Explanation:

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a) Identify ONE specific example of how historians might argue that the end of the Cold War was attributable to Reagan’s policies and US pressure.

Ronald Reagan was a huge factor in ending the Cold War, as he negotiated with Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev numerous times, building up a friendship while working on the sidelines to end the Cold War. Besides negotiating, Reagan "developed a broad counteroffensive strategy. He initiated a $1.5 trillion military buildup, the largest in American peacetime history, which was aimed at drawing the Soviets into an arms race he was convinced they could not win. He was also determined to lead the Western alliance in deploying 108 Pershing II and 464 Tomahawk cruise missiles in Europe to counter the SS-20s. At the same time, Reagan did not eschew arms control negotiations. Indeed, he suggested that for the first time the two superpowers drastically reduce their nuclear stockpiles" (historynet.com). The fact that Ronald Reagan negotiated treaties to de-escalate the rising threat of a nuclear war gives a great example of how the end of the Cold War was attributable to Reagan’s policies and US pressure.

b) Identify ONE specific example of how historians might argue that the end of the Cold War was attributable to Gorbachev’s leadership.

While Mikhail Gorbachev "is not popular with the Russian people who blame him for the loss of Soviet power" (belfercenter.org), the end of the Cold War was attributable to Gorbachev’s leadership due to the actions the former Soviet President took. "Ultimately, the deepest causes of the Soviet collapse were the decline of communist ideology and economic failure. This would have happened even without Gorbachev. In the early Cold War, communism and the Soviet Union had considerable soft power. Many communists led the resistance against fascism in Europe and many people believed that communism was the wave of the future" (belfercenter.org).

c) Identify ONE reason (other than partisanship), based on the events of the last decade of the Cold War, that historians might still debate the respective influences of Reagan and Gorbachev on the end of the Cold War.

The respective influences of Reagan and Gorbachev on the end of the Cold War are widely debated by American People long after the end of the Cold War for differing reasons.  Many people directly involved are still asking: Was Soviet communism defeated? Was it overthrown? Or did it simply collapse from within? Many people across the globe question whether Reagan "won" the war or not. Michael Cox, a British professor, asked his students a simple question regarding the Cold War: "Indeed, in a recent class I taught at my home institution—the London School of Economics—I asked a simple question about which policy-maker at the time was most instrumental in ending Soviet control in Eastern and Central Europe. Reagan was of course high on my list of possible candidates; and you might say that for a European I made a fairly strong case for him—but to no avail. Amongst a group of 500 very bright first-year students, there seemed to be only one correct answer, and that was not Ronald Reagan but, rather, Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev. By a considerable margin it was the Russian rather than the American who won the overwhelming majority of votes (over 70 percent of the total)" (ap.gilderlehrman.org), showing that there is still debate on the respective influences of Reagan and Gorbachev on the end of the Cold War.

You should present a cogent argument based on your critical analysis of the questions posed, using appropriate psychological terminology. It is not enough to answer a question by merely listing facts. REMEMBER SODAS

Researchers dropped 200 identical wallets on sidewalks near a large university. Each wallet contained the name and address of the owner and either a photograph of a baby, a photograph of a puppy, a photograph of a young family, a photograph of an older couple, or no photograph. The researchers hypothesized that the type of photograph left in the wallet would influence the rate of return. The wallets with a photograph of the baby and the wallets with a photograph of the puppy were left early in the morning, the wallets with a photograph of the young family were left in the afternoon, and the wallets with either no photograph or a photograph of an older couple were left in the evening. Eighty-four of the 200 wallets (42%) were eventually mailed back to the owner, as shown below.

Type of Photograph Baby Puppy Young family No photograph Older couple
Return Rate 80% 65% 47% 10% 5%
A. Identify the following aspects of the study as described above.

Control condition
Dependent variable
Confounding variable
B. How might cognitive dissonance explain why people returned the wallets?

C. How might individualistic culture explain why people did not return the wallets?

D. How might out-group bias explain the low rate of return for the wallets with the older couple’s photograph?

E. A survey was conducted in which individuals were asked, “Would you return a lost wallet that you found?” Use social desirability bias to explain whether the percentage of individuals who answered “yes” to this survey question would be higher, the same, or lower than the overall return rate (42%) in the study above.

How do animals contribute to soil productivity?

A)
soil tramping
B)
defecation
C)
plant consumption
D)
plant habitation
E)
all of the above