Feagin's study in 1975 found that the majority of those in the United States attribute poverty and
homelessness to
A) both personal failures and structural causes equally
B) personal failures such as having a poor work ethic, poor money management skills, a lack
of any special talent that might translate into a positive contribution to society, and low
personal moral values
C) structural causes such as racism, poor schools and the lack of sufficient employment the
lowest of all possible causes
D) none of the above
B
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What are two categories of psychotherapeutic services provided to clients in nursing homes?
a. Individual and group b. Community and group c. Family and group d. Individual and family
What type of behavior is impacted by environmental influences?
a. Risky behavior b. Human behavior c. Cultural behavior d. Person-in-environment behavior
Which of the following is an advantage of the Bayesian approach as compared to the traditional null hypothesis significance testing (NHST) approach?
a. The interpretation of the posterior distribution is more intuitive than the interpretation of p-values. b. A Bayesian approach allows for the explicit inclusion of prior knowledge and expertise in the specification of the prior distribution. c. The Bayesian approach can robustly handle skewed or otherwise non-normal distributions that may cause problems for classical statistical tests. d. The credible intervals in a Bayesian analysis are more likely to produce theoretically significant findings than the confidence intervals from NHST.