Explain why it is important that deviations from the mean are expressed as positive values.

What will be an ideal response?


: It is important that deviations from the mean are expressed as positive values because if they aren’t then they will add up to zero.

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A 45-year old male client in a residential facility wonders aloud to his social worker that he wishes racial and ethnic minority residents could just assimilate into mainstream American norms. His beliefs MOST closely relate to which construct:

a) The U.S. as a melting pot b) The cultural deficit model c) The bicultural socialization model d) Cultural pluralism

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According to O'Hanlon and Weiner-Davis, regardless of who attends the session:

a. when one member changes the family changes. b. nothing can be done to change the family. c. a and b. d. none of the above.

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The ability to hear the rapid sounds in language to understand speech is called

a. limited English proficiency. b. linguistics. c. temporal acoustic processing. d. oral expressive language. e. pragmatics.

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