The View That the Low Rates of Crime and Delinquency

question 48

Multiple Choice

The view that the low rates of crime and delinquency among females reflect the leniency with which female offenders are treated is called:

• A)The chivalry hypothesis.
• B)The exculpatory hypothesis.
• C)The null hypothesis.
• D)The alternative hypothesis.

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Definitions:

Operant Conditioning

A learning process where the consequences of an action affect the likelihood of the action being repeated, involving rewards and punishments.

Social Learning

Observational learning that occurs when someone watches others get rewarded or punished for behavior.

Classical Conditioning

A learning process that occurs when two stimuli are repeatedly paired; a response originally elicited by the second stimulus is eventually elicited by the first stimulus alone.

Reciprocal Determinism

The idea that people choose the environments they enter and then change them.