A Factory Owner Enslaves Workers of All Ages by Paying

question 42

Multiple Choice

A factory owner enslaves workers of all ages by paying them too little to cover their debts; this practice illustrates the concept of

• A)servile forms of marriage.
• B)child slavery.
• C)debt bondage.
• D)chattel slavery.

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Definitions:

Stimulus Generalization

The process in which a response that is originally elicited by a specific stimulus also becomes elicited by other, similar stimuli.

Conditioned Response

A learned reaction to a stimulus which occurs because of previous conditioning.

Operant Conditioning

A method of learning that employs rewards and punishments for behavior, leading to the increase or decrease of certain behaviors over time.

Extinction

In psychology, extinction refers to the gradual weakening and eventual disappearance of a learned response, often due to the absence of reinforcement that initially established the response.