Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)
1. Advocates for the use of quantitative methods believe that qualitative methods have resulted in philosophical “wars”
2. Qualitative researchers hold that there are potentially a number of different constructed realities and that information is value laden.
3. Objectivity in a post-positivism paradigm is not valued
4. Post-positivism is a not a variation of positivism but is based on critical realism.
5. Quantitative research originated out of experimental psychology in the late 1700s.
1. True
2. True
3. False
4. False
5. False
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A. Is effective when it helps define a community according to its needs or problems. B. Is best done to confirm or provide justification for an action you have already decided to take. C. Helps you to recognize that if needs are not being met, resources don't exist to do the job. D. Requires that you pinpoint the location of your community's wealth, sometimes hidden wealth, by doing a resource assessment or asset map.
Counselors working with battered women in shelters emphasize all but one of the following:
a. Improving self esteem b. Helping them handle shame c. Learning assertiveness d. Improving relationship skills with spouse or mate
The tendency for psychotherapy researchers to favor their preferred treatment is known as:
a. the Dodo bird verdict. c. the allegiance effect. b. dissemination bias. d. confirmation bias.
Extensive reviews of the characteristics of battered women reveal that the only common characteristic was that the women had
a. codependent personalities. b. witnessed or been victims of personal violence as children. c. a history of emotional/ psychological instability. d. specific personality profiles on personality tests that typed them as dependent and other-controlled.