Why Did Thomas Jefferson State That "A [Slave] Child Raised

question 38

Multiple Choice

Why did Thomas Jefferson state that "a [slave] child raised every 2 years is of more profit than the crop of the best laboring [slave] man"?

• A) Children complained less than adult slaves.
• B) Natural increase would grow his slave holdings.
• C) Children ate less than a laboring slave man did.
• D) The mortality rate of adult male slaves was high.

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Definitions:

Variable-interval

Variable-interval describes a schedule of reinforcement where a response is rewarded after an unpredictable amount of time has passed, in operant conditioning.

Classical Conditioning

A method of learning in which two stimuli are consistently associated; the response initially produced by the second stimulus ultimately becomes triggered by just the first stimulus alone.

Extinction

The process through which the conditioned response is weakened by presenting the conditioned stimulus without the unconditioned stimulus, eventually leading to the cessation of the conditioned response.

Conditioned Stimulus

A stimulus that initially has no response connected to it but gains the power to evoke a response through association with an unconditioned stimulus.