About What Percentage of New Englanders Qualified for Poor Relief

question 56

Multiple Choice

About what percentage of New Englanders qualified for poor relief throughout the eighteenth century?

• A) 5 percent
• B) 25 percent
• C) 50 percent
• D) 75 percent

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Definitions:

Conditioned Taste Aversions

A learned aversion to a specific food or taste following a negative experience, such as illness, demonstrating a form of classical conditioning.

Learned Helplessness

A condition in which a person suffers from a sense of powerlessness, arising from a traumatic event or persistent failure to succeed, characterized by the belief that one has no control over the outcomes in their life.

Operant Learning

A method of learning that employs rewards and punishments for behavior, emphasizing the effects of consequences on behavior.

Reinforcement

In behavioral psychology, a stimulus or event that follows a behavior and increases the likelihood of the behavior's recurrence.