Dan Olweus (1991)was Able to Curtail Bullying in a Norwegian

question 196

Multiple Choice

Dan Olweus (1991) was able to curtail bullying in a Norwegian school system by training administrators and teachers to be vigilant and to make timely and reasonable interventions.This program has reduced bullying by as much as 50 percent because

• A)swift and severe punishment is more likely to work on children than on adults.
• B)children are responsive to swift and reasonable punishment for aggression.
• C)reasonable punishment increases children's empathic abilities.
• D)swift interventions provide children with insufficient external justification.

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Definitions:

Functional Fixedness

A cognitive bias that limits a person to use an object only in the way it is traditionally used, hindering the ability to see alternative uses.

Standardization

The development of uniform procedures for administering and scoring a test, and the creation of norms (performance standards) for the test.

Norms

Shared expectations or rules within a group or culture about how to behave.

Consistent Result

Outcomes or findings that are reliably reproducible under the same conditions, indicating reliability and validity in scientific or analytical experiments.