Lorenzo's Hypothesis Suggests That the More Religious a Teenager Is

question 51

Multiple Choice

Lorenzo's hypothesis suggests that the more religious a teenager is, the less likely they are to have sexual intercourse before marriage. Lorenzo measures religiosity by the number of times a week a person prays and sexual experience by the number of sexual partners that a person has had. By turning these abstract concepts into something measureable, Lorenzo is involved in:

• A) operationalizing
• B) theorizing
• C) hypothesizing
• D) triangulation

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Definitions:

Intermittent Schedule

A reinforcement schedule in which rewards or consequences are given out at irregular intervals to modify behavior.

Free Will

The ability of agents to make choices free from certain kinds of constraints, a concept often debated in philosophy and psychology.

Behavioral Principles

Fundamental concepts or rules that underlie patterns of behavior, often used in psychology to explain and predict human actions.

Conditioned Stimuli

In classical conditioning, a previously neutral stimulus that, after association with an unconditioned stimulus, comes to trigger a conditioned response.