According to Bourgois in "Poverty AWork: Office Work and the Crack

question 56

Multiple Choice

According to Bourgois in "Poverty aWork: Office Work and the Crack Alternative," as reported in the 1990 census,

• A)78.4 percent of the women living in New York's Spanish Harlem received public assistance.
• B)48.3 percent of men living in Spanish Harlem were "officially employed."
• C)more than half the Puerto Rican men living in Spanish Harlem sell crack cocaine.
• D)42.4 percent of Puerto Rican men living in Spanish Harlem have fathered children with women to whom they are not married.

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Definitions:

Excitatory Generalization Gradient

The phenomenon in which the response to a stimulus spreads to similar stimuli, reflecting the degree of stimulus similarity.

Stimulus Contrast

The change in response strength or rate to a stimulus when the background or context stimuli are altered.

Stimulus Generalization

The process in psychology where a response that has been conditioned to a specific stimulus is also elicited by similar stimuli.

Discriminative Operant

A type of operant conditioning in which behavior is controlled by stimuli that signal the reinforcement of a behavioral response.