How Is Family Defined by the U

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Essay

How is family defined by the U.S.Census Bureau? What family types are excluded from this definition? Why is the Census Bureau's definition of family sociologically important?

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Definitions:

Sense of Pain

The perception of discomfort or distress caused by injury, illness, or other stimuli.

Doctrine of Specific Nerve Energies

A theory suggesting that the nature of a sensation depends on which sensory fibers are stimulated, not on how the fibers are stimulated.

Visual Part

The component of cognition concerned with processing visual information.

Signal Detection Tasks

Psychological tasks used to measure the ability to differentiate between information-bearing patterns (signals) and random patterns that distract from the information (noise).