Identify the Manifest and Latent Functions of Education and Apply

question 37

Essay

Identify the manifest and latent functions of education and apply a functionalist perspective to U.S.education.Discuss the strengths and weaknesses of this perspective.

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Definitions:

Classical Conditioning

A learning process in which an association is made between a naturally occurring stimulus and a previously neutral stimulus.

Conditioned Stimulus

An initially neutral stimulus that becomes associated with an unconditioned stimulus, leading to a conditioned response in classical conditioning.

Classical Conditioning

An instructional process where two stimuli are frequently paired together; the response, initially triggered by the second stimulus, is subsequently drawn by the first stimulus alone.

Extinction

In psychology, the gradual weakening and disappearance of a conditioned response when the conditioned stimulus is repeatedly presented without the unconditioned stimulus.