Analyses of Burial Populations from Mississippian Sites Indicate

question 45

Multiple Choice

Analyses of burial populations from Mississippian sites indicate:

• A) clear status differences among men and women, as well as among classes, reflected by types and abundance of grave goods.
• B) that men ate more meat than women, and that high status men ate more meat than low status men.
• C) that although the elite had access to resources that low status individuals did not, the quality of life of low status individuals did not appear negatively affected.
• D) All of the answers are correct.

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Definitions:

Delayed Reinforcement

A technique in behavior modification that involves a time delay between the desired response of an organism and the delivery of reward.

Classical Conditioning

An educational approach where two stimuli are persistently paired; the response, initially the result of the second stimulus, eventually becomes the result of the first stimulus alone.

Operant Conditioning

A process of learning in which the dynamics of behavior are adjusted by assigning incentives or penalties.

Extinction

In psychology, the gradual weakening and disappearance of a conditioned response tendency.