According to the System-Blame Approach, Many Ex-Convicts Can Be Seen

question 8

Multiple Choice

According to the system-blame approach, many ex-convicts can be seen as victims in that __________.

• A) they were born deviant
• B) they have to spend time in prison for their crimes
• C) they do not have the skills and resources to survive without resorting to crime
• D) they are required to spend a year in school after getting released from prison

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Definitions:

Operant Conditioning

A learning process in which the consequences of an action affect the likelihood of the action being performed again, involving reinforcement and punishment.

Classical Conditioning

A teaching method in which a response originally triggered by a second stimulus is ultimately triggered by the first stimulus after the two stimuli have been repeatedly associated.

Latent Learning

A form of learning that occurs without any obvious reinforcement of the behavior or associations that are learned, becoming apparent only when there is an incentive to demonstrate it.

Classical Conditioning

Classical conditioning is a learning process that occurs through associations between an environmental stimulus and a naturally occurring stimulus.