The Digital Age Is

question 27

Multiple Choice

The digital age is:

• A) the gap between those fully able to participate in the digital age and those without access to electricity, the Internet, and mobile phones.
• B) social struggles for worker rights and democracy that are aided by social media, mobile phones, and electronic communication.
• C) those born after the 1980s; this generation has spent their lives using devices like smartphones and laptops.
• D) the era defined by the proliferation of high-speed communication technologies, social networking, and personal computing.
• E) the generation that uses technology, but in a process more akin to learning a new culture or language.

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Definitions:

Avoidance Learning

A process of operant conditioning where learning occurs through the avoidance of an unpleasant stimulus.

Classical Conditioning

The acquisition of knowledge that takes place by associating an external stimulus with a naturally existing stimulus, which triggers a deliberate response.

Operant Conditioning

A learning process in which the probability of a response is changed by its consequences, with behaviors being strengthened or weakened by reinforcements or punishments.

Fear Conditioning

A behavioral paradigm in which organisms learn to predict aversive events, showing that certain stimuli can be associated with fear responses.