The New Immigrants of the Late Twentieth and Early Twenty-First

question 15

Multiple Choice

The New Immigrants of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries

• A) came to America primarily in search of jobs and economic opportunity.
• B) assimilated more quickly into the American mainstream than earlier waves of immigrants.
• C) received more in welfare payments, as a group, than they paid in taxes.
• D) made Mexican Americans the largest American minority by 1995.
• E) settled primarily on the East Coast.

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Definitions:

Recognition

The cognitive process of identifying previously encountered objects, ideas, or situations.

Encode

The process of converting information into a particular form or code, especially in the context of memory or communication.

Working Memory

The part of short-term memory that is concerned with immediate conscious perceptual and linguistic processing.

Recall

The cognitive action of retrieving information or memories from the past.