Diffusion Helps Ensure Internal Validity

question 27

True/False

Diffusion helps ensure internal validity.

Understand key events and figures in the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s.

Recognize the significance of landmark civil rights legislation and Supreme Court decisions.

Identify strategies and philosophies that shaped the civil rights movement.

Acknowledge the role of individual and collective action in challenging racial segregation and discrimination.

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Definitions:

Cognitive Dissonance Theory

suggests that individuals experience discomfort (or dissonance) when holding conflicting cognitions, leading them to change attitudes, beliefs, or actions to reduce the dissonance.

Psychoanalytic Theory

A theory of psychology and psychotherapy developed by Sigmund Freud that emphasizes unconscious processes and childhood experiences in shaping behavior.

Equity

Fairness or justice in the way people are treated, often discussed in the context of social policy, economics, or law.

Social Exchange

A theory that suggests social behavior is the result of an exchange process aimed at maximizing benefits and minimizing costs to individuals.