Which of the Following Statements About Hispanics Is True

question 25

Multiple Choice

Which of the following statements about Hispanics is true?

• A) Rates of intermarriage are lower for Latinos than for African Americans.
• B) In comparison to the households of all other minority groups, fewer Hispanic households are headed by women.
• C) The percentage of Hispanics who voted in the 2008 presidential election represents a small decrease from the percentage that voted in the 2004 election.
• D) Colombian Americans have the highest level of educational attainment among all Hispanic subgroups.
• E) Cuban Americans are highly acculturated.

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Definitions:

Joseph Wolpe

A psychiatrist who significantly contributed to the development of behavioral therapy through techniques like systematic desensitization.

Conditioning

The process of learning associations between environmental stimuli and behavioral responses, often used to explain behavior modification.

Pavlov

Refers to Ivan Pavlov, a Russian physiologist best known for his discovery of classical conditioning, where he demonstrated how reflexes could be conditioned or learned through association.

Behavior Therapy

A type of therapy that focuses on changing undesirable behaviors through reinforcement, punishment, and other learning principles.