Television Viewing Has an Important Effect on White Viewers' Negative

question 140

True/False

Television viewing has an important effect on white viewers' negative stereotypes of U.S. Latinos, especially when these viewers feel that they had learned important information about Latinos from watching television.

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Definitions:

Little Albert

The subject of a famous psychology experiment by John B. Watson and Rosalie Rayner, which demonstrated how fears could be conditioned in humans.

Specific Fears

Intense, irrational fears of specific objects or situations, such as heights, spiders, or flying, which can sometimes lead to avoidance behaviors.

Classical Conditioning

A training method where two signals are consistently coupled together, leading to a situation where the response initially triggered by the second signal is now triggered by the first signal alone.

Flatworm

A member of the phylum Platyhelminthes, characterized by their flat, soft bodies, including both free-living and parasitic species.