When Social and Cultural Factors Affect an Individual at a Particular

question 165

Multiple Choice

When social and cultural factors affect an individual at a particular time and include such variables as ethnicity,social class,and subcultural membership,these factors are called

• A)age-graded influences.
• B)non-normative life events.
• C)history-graded influences.
• D)sociocultural-graded influences.

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Definitions:

Rote Learning

A memorization technique based on repetition, often without understanding the underlying content.

Observational Learning

The process of learning behaviors by watching and imitating others, also known as modeling.

Operant Conditioning

It describes a method of learning that employs rewards and punishments for behavior, focusing on the effects of external stimuli on action.

Classical Conditioning

A conditioning process where pairing two stimuli repeatedly results in a response that was initially caused by the second stimulus being later caused by the first stimulus alone.