All Other Factors Being Equal, Assess Which of the Following

question 17

Multiple Choice

All other factors being equal, assess which of the following families would most likely contribute to slowing its country's birth rates.

• A) The sons are encouraged to complete as many years of formal education as possible before marrying and/or beginning to raise children themselves.
• B) The sons and daughters are encouraged to become active consumers.
• C) The daughters are encouraged to complete as many years of formal education as possible before marrying and/or beginning to bear children themselves.
• D) The daughters are provided with "abstinence only" sex-education classes in school.
• E) The sons and daughters of a family are given classes on birth-control techniques, but they are also expected to get married during their teen years.

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Definitions:

Discrimination Learning

The ability to differentiate between various stimuli or situations based on learned characteristics.

Generalization Gradient

The degree to which learned behavior is conducted in response to variations of the original conditioned stimulus, showing the relationship between similarity to the original stimulus and behavioral response.

Discrimination Training

A learning process in which an organism learns to respond differently to various stimuli that are not identical.

Inhibition Generalizes

A psychological phenomenon where the suppression of a response to a particular stimulus also suppresses responses to similar stimuli.