When Working with Poor Children, Healthcare Providers Should __________

question 2

Multiple Choice

When working with poor children, healthcare providers should __________.

• A) realize that poor children cannot be as healthy as wealthier children
• B) look for undiagnosed acute and chronic health problems and their effect on development
• C) expect a lack of cooperation form the children's parents
• D) expect legal problems

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Definitions:

Fundamental Attribution Error

The tendency to overemphasize personality-based explanations for behaviors observed in others while underestimating the influence of situational factors.

Self-serving Bias

A common tendency to attribute one's successes to personal characteristics and failures to external factors.

Just-world Hypothesis

The cognitive bias that assumes that actions always yield morally fair and fitting consequences, essentially that the world is just.

Groupthink

A psychological phenomenon that occurs within a group of people when the desire for harmony or conformity in the group results in an irrational or dysfunctional decision-making outcome.