Quiz 1 - Chapters 1-3 Flashcards
Our attempts to learn about the world we live in come from…
- Direct Experience
- Tradition
- Direct, person inquiry
- Authority
Assume that Prof. Rodgers had studied only people aged 65 or older and found that they experienced increasing levels of happiness in the last 20 years. Suppose he had concluded that people under 65 years of age also experienced increasing levels of happiness during the same time period. He would have committed…
The Error of Over Generalization
Safeguards against selective observation in science include…
- Use of a research design
- Colleagues
- Committing oneself ahead of time to make a specified number of observations
According to the scientific method, all knowledge should be…
- Provisional
- Subject to refutation
- Based on evidence supported by objective observations
An evidence-based practice question should…
Incorporate client characteristics
A probabilistic explanation takes the form:
X tends to be Y
An ideology is:
A closed system of beliefs and values
The expectation that increased education leads to a reduction in prejudice illustrates:
- A relationship between variables (education reduces prejudice)
- The notion of causation
- The associations that might logically be expected to exist between particular attributes of different variables
- A hypothesis
Occupation, political party preference, and birth date are all:
Variables
Female, Jewish, plumber, professor, high school graduate are all:
Specific attributes (not variables)
Social Workers who engage in the evidence-based practice process are more likely to help clients achieve their goals than social workers who do not engage in that process.
Name the dependent and independent variables:
Dependent Variable - Achievement (dependent on clients response)
Independent Variable - EBP (independent of what social worker chooses)
Social worker clinical approach is variable
