A Basic Provision of the Americans with Disabilities Act Is

question 67

Multiple Choice

A basic provision of the Americans with Disabilities Act is that employers must:

• A)provide increased benefits to disabled workers, based on the extent of their disability.
• B)hire disabled individuals and then lower performance standards so that the disabled will not be adversely affected by their disability.
• C)not discriminate against individuals who can perform the essential functions of a job, with or without reasonable accommodation.
• D)make reasonable accommodation for disabled workers, even if doing so results in undue hardship to the company.

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Definitions:

Modeling

A behavioral technique in psychology that involves learning through the observation and replication of others' behaviors.

Punishment Learning

A behavior modification strategy in which the likelihood of a behavior recurring is decreased by following it with an unpleasant outcome.

Stimulus Generalization

The tendency for the conditioned stimulus to evoke similar responses after the response has been conditioned.

Response Generalization

The expansion of a subject's response to stimuli that are similar but not identical to the original stimulus.