In the United States in the past 30 years or so, the number of alcohol-related fatalities, the percentage they constitute of all automobile fatalities, and the likelihood that they take place per million miles driven have all substantially declined. Discuss the reasons why this has taken place.
What will be an ideal response?
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______ involves collecting data for a period of time before implementing the intervention.
A. Baselining B. Ground work C. Foundation building D. Precedence
Suppose you are chatting with the Athletics Director at a high school
that has no drug prevention programs. She tells you it is known that many sports team members do use steroids and amphetamines, but the school board has not approved any funds for a specialized prevention program for sports. What do you recommend she do? A. Invite a specialist in drug abuse prevention in sports to present an educational lecture to the students in the sports programs. B. Hold a fundraiser to purchase ATHENA and ATLAS program materials and implement them as part of regular practices. C. Prepare a presentation to the school board on the dangers of steroid and amphetamine abuse so that they will approve funds for a program. D. Give a presentation to the students about the dangers of steroid and amphetamine use in sports. They will listen because of her authority.
The term chance:
a. Refers to sampling errors that result from biased sampling procedures. b. Refers to sampling errors that inevitably occur in random sampling. c. Refers to errors that are avoided when random sampling is used. d. None of these are true.
Values can be defined in many ways. Which of the following best describes values as proposed by Morales and Sheafor and described in the text?
a. As ‘guidelines' for proper behavior, they are much more than just ‘emotional reactions.' In fact, they are thought to be the fundamental criteria for necessary decision making. b. Values are standards that are so internalized and emotion laden that they have become so much a part of ones' attitudes, feelings, thinking, and behaving. c. Values are what ‘ought to be' not ‘what is.'. d. Values are easy to detect if we are willing to look at ourselves e. Values are seen in our everyday behaviors.