Which of the Following Was a Provision of the Personal

question 11

Multiple Choice

Which of the following was a provision of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act of 1996?

• A) It shifted responsibility for the management of all welfare programs from the states to the federal government.
• B) It limited welfare benefits to a total of five years over an individual's lifetime.
• C) It virtually eliminated all federal funding for the nation's welfare programs.
• D) It guaranteed that the federal government would provide cash assistance to the nation's poor children and to immigrants.

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Definitions:

Operant Conditioning

A learning principle where behaviors are modified by the consequences that follow them, with rewards increasing desired actions and punishments reducing their occurrence.

Predictability

The ability to accurately forecast future events or behaviors based on patterns or prior knowledge.

Rescorla And Wagner

Psychologists who developed a model explaining how the strength of a stimulus-response association is determined in classical conditioning.

Instinctive Drift

The tendency of learned behavior to gradually revert to biologically predisposed patterns.