Bobby watches a lot of televised violence. How might this affect his likelihood of helping a victim when violence occurs?

a. He might be less likely to take action.
b. It would cause him to be more likely to intervene.
c. It would decrease the arousal he feels, causing him to be more likely to be calm and know what to do in a violent situation.
d. It would increase his awareness of the violence.


A

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Alan has developed an intervention that can be used by family resource networks to provide basic child development information to high-risk families. Although he has trained at least one person from each family resource network and has excellent program documentation, he is still concerned. Specifically, Alan is probably worried about ____

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