One Historical Example of the "Difference-Equals-Deficit" Error Is

question 203

Multiple Choice

One historical example of the "difference-equals-deficit" error is:

• A) men perceiving women as intellectually inferior.
• B) European immigrants crossing the ocean to settle in America.
• C) how people's IQ scores have been steadily rising for more than 100 years.
• D) women taking factory jobs during World War II.

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Definitions:

Repetition

The act of repeating something that has already been said or written.

Associative Learning

A type of learning process in which a connection is made between two stimuli or between a behavior and a response.

Operant Behavior

Behavior that is controlled by its consequences, including rewards and punishments.

Secondary Conditioning

A phenomenon in classical conditioning where a stimulus that becomes conditioned as a CS is used to condition a new stimulus.