Immediately Following the Death of Michael Brown, the Pew Research

question 27

Multiple Choice

Immediately following the death of Michael Brown, the Pew Research Center organized a survey by ______.

• A) conducting a random sample of 1,000 American adults using landlines and cell phones
• B) posting a self-selected survey on a public internet site titled DoBlackLivesMatter.org
• C) going to Ferguson and personally interviewing more than 2,000 active protesters
• D) recording the opinions of callers who responded on local talk radio programs

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Definitions:

Conditioned Stimulus

A previously neutral stimulus that, after becoming associated with the unconditioned stimulus, eventually triggers a conditioned response.

Classical Conditioning

An instructional process where pairing two stimuli repeatedly results in a response first prompted by the second stimulus, but eventually prompted by only the first stimulus.

Extinction

A process in which the conditioned response is weakened when the conditioned stimulus is repeated without the unconditioned stimulus.

Acquisition

The gradual formation of an association between conditioned and unconditioned stimuli.