Individuals Who Live in Public Housing _____

question 21

Multiple Choice

Individuals who live in public housing _____.

• A)live in better housing than if public housing was not available
• B)are better off than they would be absent public housing
• C)forfeit their eligibility for the EITC
• D)are automatically enrolled in the TANF program

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Definitions:

Psychophysics

The branch of psychology that deals with the relationships between physical stimuli and sensory perceptions and responses.

Discriminated Stimuli

Stimuli in operant conditioning that signal when a particular response will lead to a certain outcome.

Detected Stimuli

Sensory input from the environment that is recognized and processed by the nervous system.

Signal-Detection Theory

The theory that perceiving or not perceiving a stimulus is actually a judgment about whether a momentary sensory experience is due to background noise alone or to the background noise plus a signal.