Rituals That Reinforce Community Standards of Behavior and Community Cohesiveness

question 22

Multiple Choice

Rituals that reinforce community standards of behavior and community cohesiveness are:

• A)rites of passage
• B)social rites of intensification
• C)revitalization rituals
• D)salvation rituals

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Definitions:

Shaping

A method of teaching new behaviors by rewarding successive approximations of the target behavior.

Reinforcement

In psychology, a stimulus or event that follows a behavior and increases the likelihood of that behavior being repeated.

Shaping

A method of operant conditioning where successive approximations of a desired behavior are reinforced until the exact behavior is achieved.

Complex Sequence

A series of numbers or events which follow a specific pattern that is not immediately obvious.