Describe How the Sociocultural Context in Which You Grew Up

question 52

Essay

Describe how the sociocultural context in which you grew up might have affected your parents' behavior toward you. Be specific and give at least three supportive examples. You can think about the sociocultural context as your race or ethnicity, or as the country or part of the country in which you were raised.

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Definitions:

Learning

The process of acquiring new understanding, knowledge, behaviors, skills, values, attitudes, and preferences.

Conditioned Stimulus

A previously neutral stimulus that, after becoming associated with an unconditioned stimulus, eventually comes to trigger a conditioned response.

Unconditioned Stimulus

A stimulus that naturally triggers a response without any prior learning or association.

Unconditioned Response

In classical conditioning, a naturally occurring reaction to an unconditioned stimulus, such as salivating in response to food.