The Purpose of the Supplemental Security Income Program Is

question 156

Multiple Choice

The purpose of the Supplemental Security Income program is

• A) to provide a minimum income for all households with children.
• B) to provide a guaranteed minimum income for all Americans.
• C) to provide a minimum income for the aged, blind, and the disabled.
• D) to supplement Social Security for the elderly with medical problems.

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Definitions:

Observational Learning

A learning process where an individual acquires new behaviors by watching and imitating others.

Habituation

the process by which an organism decreases or ceases its response to a stimulus after repeated or prolonged exposure.

Classical Conditioning

The teaching technique where, through the continuous association of two stimuli, a reaction that is initially caused by the second stimuli is later caused by the first stimuli on its own.

Skinner

Refers to B.F. Skinner, an American psychologist known for his work in behaviorism and the development of the theory of operant conditioning.