Traffic fatalities related to alcohol were increasing. Currently in every state across the US, the drinking age is 21. Each state however, has the ability to increase or decrease the drinking age. In 1984, the federal government created the National Minimum Age Drinking Act to prevent alcohol related deaths from driving. The act involve taking 10% of the highway funding for each state that did not raise the drinking age to 21. To this day, each state raised its drinking age to 21 in order to obtain its highway fundings from the government.
This organization is a legitimate pediatric society, and would only make decisions that follow laws, policies, and authorizations. They took these statistics and, in the common interest of the people, created recommendations for minors.
Robert Rescorla is one of the experimental psychologists most important of our time; one of his works, the Rescorla - Wagner model, is one of the theoretical models that more has influenced research in learning psychology
