Your Roommate Is from Denmark and She Was Telling You

question 288

Multiple Choice

Your roommate is from Denmark and she was telling you that she and her boyfriend had sexual intercourse frequently and her parents allowed him to spend the night with her. You were quite surprised to learn this and asked if her situation was unusual. She indicated that ____.

• A) yes, it was very unusual, Denmark is very restrictive regarding sexual behaviour
• B) yes, it was somewhat unusual. None of her friends were allowed to have their boyfriends or girlfriends spend the night with them
• C) no, Denmark has a very permissive attitude regarding teenage sexual behaviour
• D) it was somewhat unusual, but if the parents signed consent forms, their children could acquire contraception

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Definitions:

Second-order Conditioning

A process in which a neutral stimulus becomes a conditioned stimulus by being paired with a previously conditioned stimulus.

Eating Behavior

The range of psychological and physiological processes that influence how and what individuals consume for food.

Stimulus Discrimination

The learned ability to differentiate between similar stimuli and respond only to the original stimulus in conditioning.

Extinction

In behavior psychology, the gradual weakening and eventual disappearance of a conditioned response when the conditioned stimulus is no longer paired with the unconditioned stimulus.