The Incentive to Extend the Right to Vote to 18-Year-Olds

question 37

Multiple Choice

The incentive to extend the right to vote to 18-year-olds was sparked by

• A) the Civil Rights Act.
• B) the Voting Rights Act.
• C) the Jim Crow era.
• D) the soaring youth population.
• E) the Vietnam War.

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Definitions:

Operant Conditioning

A form of learning in which a voluntary response is strengthened or weakened by its association with positive or negative consequences.

Voluntary Response

A behavioral action that is performed willingly and without coercion.

Classical Conditioning

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

Neutral Stimulus

A stimulus that initially produces no specific response other than focusing attention in classical conditioning.