All of the Following Are Risk Factors for Gestational Diabetes

question 37

Multiple Choice

All of the following are risk factors for gestational diabetes except

• A)being Hispanic or African American.
• B)being over 25 years of age.
• C)having a family history of diabetes.
• D)being underweight.

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Definitions:

Stimulus Generalisation

The psychological phenomenon in which responses to a specific stimulus become triggered by stimuli that are similar in some way to the original stimulus.

Variable-Ratio Schedule

A reinforcement schedule in which a response is rewarded after an unpredictable number of responses, making the reward random.

Fixed-Ratio

A type of reinforcement schedule in operant conditioning where a response is reinforced only after a specified number of responses have occurred.

Discriminative Stimulus

In behavioral psychology, a stimulus that signals the availability of reinforcement or punishment, guiding the organism's responses.