What Is Known About the Marriage Factor and Crime

question 68

Multiple Choice

What is known about the marriage factor and crime?

• A) People who maintain successful marriages are more likely to mature out of a life of crime.
• B) Marriage stabilizes people.
• C) The marriage benefit may be intergenerational.
• D) All of the above.

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Definitions:

Conditioning

A process in behavioral psychology where a response becomes more frequent or more predictable in a given environment due to reinforcement.

Early Perspectives

Refers to the initial theories and views in psychology, including structuralism, functionalism, psychoanalysis, and behaviorism, that shaped the development of the field.

Founders, Methods, And Philosophies

A phrase that encompasses the individuals who establish or pioneer significant theoretical or practical methodologies, and the core beliefs or principles that guide these approaches.

Control Group

In an experiment, the group that does not receive the treatment under study and is used as a benchmark to measure how the other tested subjects do.