Only a Very Small Percentage (No More Than 5%) of Youth

question 59

Multiple Choice

Only a very small percentage (no more than 5%) of youth adjudicated delinquent will ______.

• A) be sentenced
• B) be incarcerated
• C) continue offending into adulthood
• D) finish high school

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Definitions:

Behavior Modification

A method of therapy rooted in operant conditioning principles, which aims to substitute negative behaviors with positive ones using either rewards or penalties.

Classical Conditioning

The procedure of learning through continual pairing of two stimuli; a behavior that initially results from the second stimulus later results from only the first stimulus.

Instinctive Drift

The inclination of an animal to return to innate behaviors that disrupt a learned reaction.

Extinction

The gradual weakening and eventual disappearance of a learned response.