While Doing Research on Crime, Professor Middler Notes That Crime

question 34

Multiple Choice

While doing research on crime, Professor Middler notes that crime creates jobs in law enforcement and related careers. He also notices that crime reinforces community norms when criminals are caught and punished. Professor Middler has probably adopted the _______ approach to the study of crime.

• A)conflict theory
• B)social Darwinism
• C)structural functionalism
• D)ethnomethodology
• E)symbolic interactionism

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Definitions:

Meat Powder

An example of a stimulus used in classical conditioning experiments, famously by Ivan Pavlov.

Conditioned Response

A learned response to a previously neutral stimulus that becomes significant through classical conditioning.

Unconditioned Stimulus

In classical conditioning, a stimulus that naturally triggers a reflexive or involuntary response without prior learning.

Reflex

A rapid, automatic response to a stimulus, an unconscious process that protects the body from harm or promotes adaptive functions.