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<u>Answer</u>:
Since the mid 1970s, the United States had a significant trade deficit.
<u>Explanation</u>:
The U.S had undergone a trade deficit since the 1970s. This has been contributed to the fact that they have been importing way more supplies and goods than the other countries were buying from the Americans. These imports have affected the native industries. Also, the demand for American products went down drastically and thus contributing to the deficit.
While Europe and Great Britain undertook industrialization in the 18th century, Americans started it in the 19th century-this delay resulted in the US depending upon imported goods and also in US struggling to meet Europe's levels of export.
Emphasis was shifted from <u>experiments</u> in the academic laboratory to the application of phycology to the issues of teaching and learning.
Transition took place from controlled environments to focusing the interest on real ones, each of them totally different from others and where external conditions affect human reactions, for example, the socioeconomical, cultural or familiar conditions of students in teaching and learning processes are going to affect their responses to the metodologies they are exposed to. This cannot occur in an artificially controlled environment such as a laboratory.