A family preservation program director helps design a study that evaluates the effectiveness of her program to keep children living with their abusive parents by providing the families with daily home visits by social workers. She expects the evaluation to show a dramatic reduction in reported child abuse incidents. Instead, the results show an increase in reported child abuse incidents. The
director then concludes that the program was undoubtedly effective, reasoning that there really could not possibly have been an increase in actual abuse due to her program, just an increase in reportage of abuse due to closer monitoring in the daily home visits. The director is committing the error of
A) illogical reasoning.
B) ex post facto hypothesizing.
C) premature closure of inquiry.
D) ?selective observation.
E) mystification.
B
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A. socialization into deviant values B. the recent decay of the American economic structure, which reduces the likelihood of social mobility for people at the bottom of the socioeconomic hierarchy C. the disjunction between the goal of success and the legitimacy of the means to achieve that success D. the actor's stake in conventional values E. hegemony by the powerful to shape laws and social control to their advantage
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Indicate whether the statement is true or false
Session evaluation forms do not usually include
a) Members satisfaction with the group b) Members satisfaction with each other c) Members satisfaction with the leader d) Members satisfaction with the content of the session
A(n) ______ is an imaginary line around a system that can be flexible or inflexible and allow an exchange of energy in the form of relationships and resources.
A. edge B. boundary C. band D. lineage