What Role Did Women's Groups Play in Promoting Colonial Resistance

question 66

Multiple Choice

What role did women's groups play in promoting colonial resistance?

• A)Since women were not permitted to participate in politics, they didn't do much.
• B)They refused to socialize with men who traded with the British.
• C)They spied on British soldiers and brought intelligence to male leaders.
• D)They produced an alternative to the factory-produced cloth Americans were boycotting.

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Definitions:

Respondent Behavior

Behavior that occurs as a direct response to a specific stimulus, often reflexive or involuntary in nature.

Classical Conditioning

A learning process in which a biologically potent stimulus is paired with a previously neutral stimulus to elicit a conditioned response.

Negative Reinforcement

A behavioral principle where the removal or avoidance of an unpleasant stimulus increases the likelihood of a behavior being repeated.

Instinctive Drift

The tendency of an animal to revert to instinctive behaviors that interfere with learned behaviors from operant conditioning.