Children of the Baby Boom

question 85

Multiple Choice

Children of the baby boom

• A) comprised a lucrative market for prepared baby food and other infant products.
• B) grew into teenagers who spend $20 billion a year on clothes and music.
• C) became the foundation of the youth movements of the 1960s and 1970s.
• D) did not have access to the disposable income to spend substantial money on consumer goods such as clothes
• And music.
• E) All of these choices are correct.

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Definitions:

Joseph Wolpe

A South African psychiatrist known for developing systematic desensitization, a technique used in the treatment of phobias and anxiety disorders.

Behaviour Therapy

A type of psychotherapy that focuses on changing undesirable behaviors through conditioning, without delving deeply into past underlying conflicts.

Systematic Desensitization

A therapeutic technique used to reduce fear or anxiety by gradually exposing the patient to the feared object or context.

Classical Conditioning

The procedure of acquiring skills by associating a stimulus occurring in one's environment with a naturally arising stimulus, prompting a learned reaction.