When You First Met, Your Roommate Told You That He

question 290

Multiple Choice

When you first met, your roommate told you that he was Native American. Other than him telling you that he was Native American, there really is little suggestion of his ethnicity. According to Phinney, what ethnic identity status has your roommate taken?

• A) Assimilation
• B) Marginality
• C) Separation
• D) Biculturalism

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Definitions:

Free Play

Unstructured, voluntary play that allows children to develop their imagination, creativity, and decision-making skills through spontaneous activities.

Higher Order Conditioning

A classical conditioning process where a conditioned stimulus is paired with a new neutral stimulus, creating a second (often weaker) conditioned stimulus.

Response Generalization

The process by which a conditioned response starts occurring in response to stimuli that are similar but not identical to the original conditioned stimulus.

Shaping

A method used in operant conditioning to gradually guide behavior towards a desired response through successive approximations.