The Amount of Time Spent to Provide Extended Assistance for Persons

question 20

Multiple Choice

The amount of time spent to provide extended assistance for persons with mental illness is most strongly affected by

• A) inappropriate attitudes.
• B) the need for officers to get back in-service.
• C) preconceived ideas about what constitutes mental illness.
• D) lack of training.

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Definitions:

Perceptual Hypotheses

Assumptions or inferences that individuals make about the environment based on incomplete sensory information to interpret what they perceive.

Bottom-Up Processing

An approach to processing information that starts with small details and works up to a comprehensive picture.

Figure And Ground

A principle of visual perception that denotes how objects (figure) stand out from their background (ground).

Bottom-Up Processing

An approach to information processing that starts with the sensory input and builds up to the final representation in the mind.