Why Are Remarriage Rates Lower Today Than They Were in the 1960s

question 53

Multiple Choice

Why are remarriage rates lower today than they were in the 1960s?

• A) Divorced people tend to have a series of short relationships instead of getting remarried.
• B) There has been an increase in cohabitation among unmarried couples.
• C) Divorce rates have dropped slightly.
• D) People tend to divorce at later ages, so they are less likely to remarry.

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Definitions:

Overregularizations

A language development stage where children apply general grammatical rules too broadly, often resulting in grammatical errors.

Behaviourist Model

A theory of learning based on the principle that behavior is conditioned by environmental stimuli and responses, without the need for the involvement of mental states.

Transformational Rules

In linguistics, the set of rules that govern how sentences can be transformed into other sentences in a language, affecting structure and meaning.

Overregularization

A language learning error made by children, in which they apply regular grammatical rules to words that require irregular forms.