Differentiate Between the "Melting Pot" and the "Tossed Salad" Perspectives

question 3

Essay

Differentiate between the "melting pot" and the "tossed salad" perspectives in application to cultural awareness in the United States.

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Definitions:

Conditioned Response

The learned reaction to a previously neutral stimulus that becomes conditioned through association with an unconditioned stimulus.

Stimulus Generalization

The tendency for a learned response to stimuli that are similar to the original conditioned stimulus to evoke the same response, without having been explicitly taught.

Discrimination Learning

The process through which an organism learns to respond differently to various stimuli, distinguishing between them based on their differences.

Discriminative Stimulus

A stimulus in the presence of which a particular response will be reinforced or punished, indicating when a behavior is likely to have a consequence.