How Can a School Respond in a Culturally Sensitive Way

question 14

Multiple Choice

How can a school respond in a culturally sensitive way to Muslim students who may require time and space to pray during school hours?

• A) ban all forms of prayer on the school campus
• B) send a translated newsletter home forbidding prayer in school
• C) have the entire school stop to pray at the set times
• D) offer a nondenominational quiet room open to all students

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Definitions:

Stimulus Discrimination

The ability to distinguish between different stimuli, even if they are similar, based on learned responses.

Extinction

In psychology, the gradual weakening of a conditioned response when the reinforcement is no longer provided.

Stimulus Generalization

A psychological phenomenon in which a response that has been conditioned for one stimulus is evoked by another, similar stimulus.

Response Attenuation

The reduced reaction to a stimulus over time, typically as a result of repeated exposure.