Higher Crime Rates in Poor Urban Areas May Not Actually

question 69

True/False

Higher crime rates in poor urban areas may not actually be the result of increased criminal behavior.

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Definitions:

Positive Reinforcement

A process in psychology where a behavior is encouraged by rewarding it, leading to an increase in the occurrence of that behavior.

Escape Learning

A form of learning in which an organism learns to perform an action in order to terminate an unpleasant stimulus.

Negative Punishment

A behavior reduction strategy where a favorable stimulus is removed following the undesired behavior.

Avoidance Learning

A process in behavioral psychology where a subject learns to prevent the occurrence of an unpleasant stimulus by performing a particular behavior.