After Spending Nine Months in Samoa and Working with Individuals

question 49

Multiple Choice

After spending nine months in Samoa and working with individuals in three different villages, Margaret Mead concluded that __________.

• A) Samoan society differed little from that of the United States in the 1920s
• B) many key elements of Samoan culture had diffused from Thailand
• C) Franz Boas's theories of cultural relativism had serious flaws
• D) becoming an adult was less stressful in Samoa than in the United States

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Definitions:

Shaping

Rewarding successive approximations of a desired behavior.

Rewarding

Providing a positive reinforcement following desirable behavior, thereby increasing the likelihood of the behavior's recurrence.

Operant Conditioning

A method of learning that occurs through rewards and punishments for behavior, encouraging the association between actions and consequences.

Behavior

The actions or reactions of an object or organism, usually in relation to the environment or surroundings.