While you’re eating lunch in a local café, you overhear a conversation about those “no good slackers who receive welfare because they can’t hold down a job.” The assumption that people in lower classes are less competent than those in upper classes is called ____.

A. ageism
B. sexism
C. elitism
D. abelism


C. elitism

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Reflecting content involves:

a. Listening carefully to and reflecting on (i.e., thinking deeply about) what a client says b. Listing the specific content or details of the client's story back to him or her c. The repetition of a client's message (also known in the field as ‘parroting') d. Listening carefully to, then feeding back the essence of what the client has said in the interviewer's own words

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The mean is:

a. a comparison statistic b. a statistic of correlation c. a descriptive statistic d. an estimation of frequency

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In 1792, Philippe Pinel was memorialized for what reason?

a. Unchaining up to 5,000 patients in a mental hospital. b. Chaining all patients in an insane asylum c. Developing the first psychotropic medication d. Founding the first psychiatric hospital in France

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One of the reasons why battered women do not permanently leave their husbands is because they believe that the occasional beatings are better than the loneliness and insecurity connected with leaving their husbands

Indicate whether the statement is true or false

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