SOCW 340 Final UPDATED ACTUAL Questions and CORRECT Answers
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SOCW 340
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SOCW 340
SOCW 340 Final UPDATED ACTUAL
Questions and CORRECT Answers
Cora maintains that children need both a mother and a father because "everyone" knows that
is true. Cora is relying on _________ reliability. - CORRECT ANSWER- Agreement
The scientific method conceptualizes all knowledge as __________...
SOCW 340 Final UPDATED ACTUAL
Questions and CORRECT Answers
Cora maintains that children need both a mother and a father because "everyone" knows that
is true. Cora is relying on _________ reliability. - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Agreement
The scientific method conceptualizes all knowledge as ____________. - CORRECT
ANSWER✔✔- Tentative
The term _________ refers to the use of evidence based on observations. - CORRECT
ANSWER✔✔- Empirical
You feel absolutely certain that there will be pumpkin, sweet potato and pecan pie for dessert
at your family's Thanksgiving supper because that is the way it has always been. Your
knowledge is best described as being based on ___________. - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-
Tradition
Vida assisted in the provision of services to a large group of individuals who had been laid off
when an urban factory closed. In addition to working with individuals, she was responsible
for maintaining lists of other employers in the area who were hiring workers with similar
skills and education. Several months later, Vida heard from Amy, with whom she had gone to
school. Amy is a social worker in a rural community that just lost the employer of the
majority of its residents when factory closed down. Vida has happy to provide advice on
helping people find new jobs, but recognizes that, since Vida's experience was with a large
urban area in which there were numerous other employers and Amy is in a rural community
with no other factories or large employers, she will need to be conscious of the risks of
_____. - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Overgeneralization
Anthony and Sarah disagree vehemently about what sorts of counseling services ought to be
offered to children who commit violent crimes. Anthony believes that, since they will almost
certainly be released from supervision at 18 or 21 at the oldest, it is vital to provide intensive
services. Sarah counters that the politician who is the biggest proponent for these services has
been married three times, has seven children all of whom live with their mothers, and is
known to be far behind in paying support for the children, who he rarely sees. What method
is Sarah using to devalue the politician's comments? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Ad
hominem attacks
,After the Supreme Court decision regarding marriage equality, opponents argued that
marriage equality opened the door to marriage to dogs and one politician, claiming a lawyer
had told him that only one person was needed for a marriage, memorably suggested that a
person could marry his or her lawnmower. This is best described as _____. - CORRECT
ANSWER✔✔- Straw person argument
Wendell excitedly tells his colleague about as intervention he read about in a professional
journal, noting that it seems very promising in reducing dropout rates among high risk youth.
Leeza retorts that nothing, including paying youth to stay in school, has ever been shown to
reduce dropout rates and nothing ever well. Once kids decide to drop out, she says, they will.
Leeza is engaging in _____. - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Premature closure
Emmett Spencer, age 23, was diagnosed with schizophrenia at age 19, is neither employed
nor attending school and lives at home with his parents. Although his family is very
supportive and committed to helping Emmett, he often refuses to take his antipsychotics and
has, on more than one occasion, been hospitalized on emergency holds when he became
acutely psychotic. His family is discouraged and wonders what could be done to help their
son stay on his medication and have a more stable life. Which method is best supported by
research? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Assertive community treatment and psychoeducation
Your social services agency is on the state's emergency preparedness team. The state police
superintendent wants to know how your agency would respond to a large scale incident
resulting in widespread casualties. He has heard that critical incident stress debriefing is
particularly helpful. Is he right? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- No, it is not effective.
In the evidence-based practice (EBP) model, research _____ decisions. - CORRECT
ANSWER✔✔- Informs
Unlike _____ practitioners, practitioners engaged in EBP engage in critical thinking. -
CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Authority-based
According to Gambrill, because EBP is primarily a compassionate, client-centered approach
to practice, it is important to consider _____. - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- The values and
concerns of clients
The first step in the EBP process is to _____. - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Formulate a
question to answer practice needs
, The _____ is an international nonprofit organization that recruits researchers, practitioners,
and consumers into review groups that provide reviews of research on the effects of health
care interventions. - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Cochrane Collaboration
When evaluating systematic reviews and meta-analyses, it is important to consider _____. -
CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Whether the authors of their affiliated institutions or agencies
had a financial stake in the findings.
Why evaluate an intervention if published studies have already provided credible evidence of
its effectiveness? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Interventions are tested with specific
population groups, and the client may be a member of a population for which it does not
work.
Social workers often work in settings where superiors do not understand or appreciate EBP
and do not give practitioners enough time to carry out the EBP process—especially if they
follow the _____ approach in searching for evidence. - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Bottom-
up
EBP is a restrictive approach that downplays both professional expertise and client values and
preferences. - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- False
The existence of so-called "common factors" regarding the quality of the relationship
between the practitioner and the client makes it clear that the intervention itself is relatively
unimportant. - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- False
The first step in the research process includes _____. - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Posing
the research question
During the _____ phase, conceptual elements, including the hypothesis and operational
definitions, are explicated. - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Problem formulation
A(n) _____ is a systematic set of interrelated statements intended to explain something. -
CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Theory
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