When the chairperson of a psychology department informally speaks with some faculty members in order to decide if the department should have a workshop dealing with faculty morale, she has engaged in ______.

a. a program efficacy assessment
b. a needs assessment
c. prescientific problem identification
d. an intervention viability analysis


Ans: B

Psychology

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