Identify potential adaptations that older adults with vision difficulties could make to improve the person-environment fit

What will be an ideal response?


Facilities should use contrasting colors for signs, avoid creating shiny floors, and avoid placing a single large window at the end of a hall, large print books, audiobooks, playing cards with large letters, magnifying glasses, contrasting color strips on stairs, increasing light, flat versus glossy paint to reduce glare and dimmer switches to control the light levels.

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The norming stage is marked by

a. boundary testing. b. testing the leader. c. performance anxiety. d. all of the above.

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If a social worker studying the Mexican migrants within the United States and is utilizing

the literature from the country of origin and country of emigration he/she conducting why type of research? a. Supranational research b. Intranational research c. Transnational research d. Domestic research

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When contemplating your feelings about a case, you may have to confront your own ______ related to the characteristics of your clients.

A. prejudices B. values C. practices D. biases

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B. F. Skinner applied operant conditioning procedures to both education and childrearing. His model suggested that:

A. Like Adler, it was the outcome in the form of a reinforcer that really controlled and determined behavior B. Continuous reinforcement was the strongest kind and that intermittent reinforcement should only be used when parents were away C. Behaviors were shaped holistically, focusing on the whole of the desired behavior rather than confusing children by breaking the behavior into smaller approximations D. Punishment had no effect on children’s behavior and should never be used

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