Social skills training programs are interventions in which children are taught specific, discrete behaviors that can facilitate effective social interactions, like making eye contact and asking appropriate questions
Assessments of these interventions indicate that they have modest success in improving peer acceptance. Which of these is the best description of a major shortcoming of these intervention programs?
a. Socially unskilled children are already perceived in biased ways by peers, and that perception is not being addressed by the intervention.
b. Social skills are not the problem. Children who experience low peer acceptance usually already have adequate social skills.
c. These programs are introduced too late. Social skills training must be done much earlier than the middle childhood or adolescent years to have any real effect.
d. Socially unskilled children are not capable of learning these basic skills, because their problems stem from a difficult temperament.
a
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How many cases does CPS investigate out of those reported to them?
a. 1/4–1/2 b. 1/2–2/3 c. 2/3–3/4 d. all cases
Guidelines for group member interactions
a. are not useful in groups with adults. b. should be established when problems arise. c. should allow for differences of opinion to arise. d. should minimize differences of opinion.
This threat to internal validity describes when participants differentially drop out of treatment, thus leaving only the "better" or "worse" participants and results that are falsely attributed to the treatment
a. Attrition b. Maturation c. History d. Regression
Krumboltz’s theory recognizes that all of the following EXCEPT ____________________________ may affect learning and lead to ineffective personal patterns
a. poor climatic conditions b. traumatic events c. lack of social support d. poor role models e. emotional deprivation