Compare Urban Youth Gangs with U

question 55

Essay

Compare urban youth gangs with U.S. college fraternities in terms of three features of your choice such as, motivations for joining, rituals of initiation or solidarity, relationship with the wider society and/or anthropological theories concerning them.

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Definitions:

Eating Behavior

The range of psychological and physiological processes that influence how and what individuals consume for food.

Stimulus Discrimination

The learned ability to differentiate between similar stimuli and respond only to the original stimulus in conditioning.

Extinction

In behavior psychology, the gradual weakening and eventual disappearance of a conditioned response when the conditioned stimulus is no longer paired with the unconditioned stimulus.

Systematic Desensitization

Therapy technique that involves exposing a client to increasingly anxiety-producing stimuli or situations while having the client relax at the same time.