European Contact with Native Americans Led to

question 12

Multiple Choice

European contact with Native Americans led to

• A) the Europeans' acceptance of the horse into their culture.
• B) the deaths of millions of Native Americans, who had little resistance to European diseases.
• C) the introduction into the New World of such plants as potatoes, tomatoes, and beans.
• D) an increase in the Native American population.
• E) the use of tobacco by Native Americans.

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Definitions:

Latent Learning

Learning that occurs without obvious reinforcement and is not immediately observable in an individual’s behavior.

Operant Conditioning

A learning approach that relies on the use of incentives and consequences for one's actions.

Classical Conditioning

A method of conditioning in which pairing two stimuli repeatedly makes a response that is initially precipitated by the second stimulus to be precipitated by the first stimulus alone.

Secondary Reinforcement

A type of reinforcement where a stimulus reinforces a behavior because it is associated with a primary reinforcer.