M&F Quiz 2

Our beliefs about families, based on our own personal experience, are usually accurate.

• True

• False

Children who live in poor neighborhoods are at less risk for negative social, educational, economic, and health outcomes.

• True

• False

A potential bias of case studies is that people who present themselves for counseling may differ in important ways from those who do not.

• True

• False

From the family systems perspective, the parts of a family are seen as making a whole that is more than the mere sum of its parts.

• True

• False

A national random sample of approximately 10,000 people is the minimum needed to validly represent the U.S. population.

• True

• False

The informed consent of human subjects is only necessary in dangerous research.

• True

• False

The family ecology perspective stresses the interdependence of all the world’s families—not only with one another but also with the physical environment.

• True

• False

Sociobiologists are careful to point out that biological predisposition does not mean that a person’s behavior cannot be influenced or changed by social structure.

• True

• False

Personal experience provides us with information, but it can also act as _________, which is why we need scientific study.

• evidence

• blinders

• tools

• authority

Today's family ecologists stress the interdependence of all the world's families, not only with one another but also with our planet's __________ environment.

• internal

• physical

• family

• living-learning