What Did a Recent Long Island Study That Used Undercover

question 31

Essay

What did a recent Long Island study that used undercover paired-tests to evaluate racial discrimination by real estate agents find? Two undercover testers (either one White and one Black; or one White and one Latinx; or one White and one Asian) would approach real estate agents with identical financial profiles and neighborhood preferences.

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Definitions:

Phobia Learning

The process by which an irrational fear is acquired, often through classical conditioning or a traumatic experience.

Classical Conditioning

An acquisition of knowledge through the consistent coupling of two stimuli, wherein a response originally induced by the second stimulus is ultimately induced by the first stimulus on its own.

Conditioned Stimulus

An initially neutral stimulus that, after being associated with an unconditioned stimulus, elicits a conditioned response.

Unconditioned Stimulus

A stimulus that naturally triggers a reflexive response without any prior learning in classical conditioning.