Why Might It Be Unreasonable to Ask Whether an Urban

question 44

Multiple Choice

Why might it be unreasonable to ask whether an urban housing program would eliminate all homelessness?

• A)Homelessness is too politically charged to involve in an intervention study.
• B)Evaluation projects should focus broadly on what makes a program successful.
• C)The issue of homelessness impacts rural communities,not simply urban ones.
• D)Most interventions are designed to produce important but modest effects.

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Definitions:

Stimuli

Refers to physical or environmental factors that can provoke a response or reaction in a living organism.

Reinforced

Strengthened or supported, often in the context of materials or structures, but also applicable to behaviors in psychology.

Positive Reinforcement

The presentation of a stimulus following a given behavior in order to increase the frequency of that behavior.

Operant Conditioning

A learning process through which the strength of a behavior is modified by reinforcement or punishment, a principle established by B.F. Skinner.