HBSE Chapter 1

Which would be considered the best definition of communities?

• two persons bound together in some way

• people bound by either geography or by network links

• collections of people who interact with each other and perceive themselves to act interdependently

• a group of two or more persons connected by long-term commitments and interdependence

When a social worker considers the environmental dimensions of any person in a story, they are thinking about _______.

• the biological, psychological, and spiritual

• the life course, life events, cycles, and trends

• the physical environment, the community, culture, and families

• the past, present, and future

Which would be considered an example of a dyad?

• activist group

• romantic partners

• ethnic group

• historical era

A family can be considered to be an example of a _______

• small group

• community

• formal organization

• social movement

When a social worker considers the person dimensions of any person in a story, they are thinking about ______.

• the physical environment, the community, culture, and families

• the life, liberty, and love

• the biological, psychological, and spiritual

• the past, present, and future

Social workers are like the teaching profession in that they need to know in order to _______.

• be objective
• blend

• do

• diversify

How are emotional states such as stress related to bias?

• Bias is the result of a lack of synthesis in regulating any and all human emotions.

• Emotions like anger and stress make critical thinking difficult which can lead to errors of bias.

• Negative emotions, such as stress, increase our critical thinking catching errors of bias.

• Errors of bias are diversified and therefore not affected by positive or negative emotional states.

When we use a theory to hypothesize, we are engaging in ___.

• objective reality

• assumption

• deductive reasoning

• proposition

Linear time is time ordered like a straight line from the past, through the present, and into the future.

• True

• False

For survival, members of nonprivileged groups must learn a lot about the lives of groups with privilege.

• True

• False