Which Statement Regarding Family Structure and Ethnicity Is True

question 97

Multiple Choice

Which statement regarding family structure and ethnicity is true?

• A) Teen pregnancy contributes dramatically to this issue.
• B) Single parent families are more common among African Americans and Native Americans than other groups.
• C) Single parent African Americans are more likely than other groups to marry.
• D) Births to single women in the African American community have dropped in recent years.

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Definitions:

Cognitive Economy

A principle in cognitive psychology that suggests humans strive to simplify cognitive processes and structures to minimize effort.

Frequency of Association

A concept in psychology referring to how often two ideas, words, or concepts are linked together in a person's memory, affecting the ease of recall or recognition.

Encoding Specificity

The principle that recall is more effective if the context at the time of encoding matches the context at the time of retrieval.

Cognitive Economy

A principle in cognitive psychology that suggests the brain strives to simplify information processing by using the most efficient and simplest ways to understand and process information.