With Respect to the Acculturation Process, What Is the Relationship

question 56

Multiple Choice

With respect to the acculturation process, what is the relationship between maintenance and segregation?

• A) People who belong to the dominant culture attempt to maintain their cultural superiority by isolating the subcultural values of new immigrants and physically segregating members of new subcultures into separate groups.
• B) New immigrants often attempt to maintain their old cultural background by segregating themselves, living and shopping in physically separated areas from the main culture.
• C) Members of a subculture who have been in a larger culture for a long period of time maintain their alliance to the new culture by segregating themselves from new immigrants.
• D) The relationship is subtle. There is constant battle between new immigrants attempting to maintain their new identity and language and the dominant culture applying pressure to segregate new immigrants, thus separating them from the new culture.

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Definitions:

Operant Response

Is a behavior or action that is a consequence of the operant conditioning process, wherein behaviors are modified through reinforcement or punishment.

Reinforced

In psychology, refers to the process of strengthening a behavior by providing a reward or removing an adverse stimulus after the behavior occurs.

Positive Reinforcer

A stimulus that, when presented after a behavior, increases the likelihood of that behavior being repeated.

Conditioned Stimulus

A stimulus that was neutral at first but, after being associated with an unconditioned stimulus, starts to generate a conditioned response.