What Was a Reason for the Increase in Homelessness Rates

question 61

Multiple Choice

What was a reason for the increase in homelessness rates during the 1980s?

• A) The elimination of Medicaid
• B) The release of many psychiatric patients from state mental hospitals
• C) The elimination of all federal housing subsidies for the impoverished
• D) Congress's refusal to extend unemployment benefits during the recession of the early 1980s

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Definitions:

Behaviorism

A theory of learning based on the idea that all behaviors are acquired through conditioning.

Unconscious Forces

The underlying psychological influences of which we are not aware that affect our thoughts, feelings, and behaviors.

Replication

Repeating a study to see if the effect is reliable.

Independent Variables

The factors manipulated or controlled by researchers in an experiment to determine their effects on dependent variables.