Given what the research has shown about adolescents and substance use, what would make for an effective campaign to target teens and prevent substance use?
What will be an ideal response?
The text states that rates of use are lower in countries where governments have created large-scale public health campaigns against substance use. It would seem that creating a similar campaign would be effective worldwide. The book also states that one must reach children as early as possible.
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a. men are more likely to take alcohol and drugs following a breakup. b. women and men are equally likely to blame their partner for a breakup. c. women are more likely to blame themselves for the breakup. d. men are more likely to distract themselves from thinking about the breakup.
Which of the following factors place children at an increased risk of injury?
A. single-parent households B. diagnosis of autism C. poor parental supervision D. diagnosis of an autoimmune disorder
A distribution of raw scores is positively skewed. You want to transform it so that it is normally distributed. Your friend, who fancies herself a statistics whiz, advises you to transform the raw scores to z scores; that the z scores will be normally distributed. You should _________
a. ignore the advice because your friend flunked her last statistics test b. ignore the advice because z distributions have the same shape as the raw scores. c. take the advice because z distributions are always normally distributed d. take the advice because z distributions are usually normally distributed
Graham is a professional football kicker considering a trade to a new team. To increase his attractiveness to a potential new team, his agent should
A. discuss how few times his team lost games in recent seasons. B. discuss how few times he missed a field goal attempt. C. highlight how many games his team won last season. D. highlight how many field goals he made in recent seasons.