By the Early Twenty-First Century,regarding African Americans

question 9

Multiple Choice

By the early twenty-first century,regarding African Americans,

• A)half of all African Americans lived in the middle-class.
• B)African Americans constituted 3 percent of the nation's college population.
• C)there was little-to-no economic disparity between black and white professionals.
• D)half of all African Americans lived in poverty as members of the "underclass."
• E)the percentage of black high school graduates going to college still lagged significantly behind that of white high school graduates.

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Definitions:

Conditioned Response

A learned reaction to a specific stimulus as a result of conditioning, demonstrated in Pavlov's experiments with dogs.

Tone

The quality or character of sound, or in literature, the author's attitude towards the subject or audience.

Blinking

The rapid closing and opening of the eyelid, a reflex that helps to protect the eye from irritants and distribute tear fluid.

Conditioned Stimulus

An initially neutral signal that, upon being linked with an unconditioned stimulus, ultimately incites a learned response.