Exam 4: Intervention and Evaluation

The key independent variable in the eating disorder intervention developed by Stice and his colleagues (Stice et al.,2008)is ______.

When crime levels begin to accelerate,a municipal police department establishes a community policing ministation on the west side of the city.Officers assigned to the ministation have such responsibilities as patrolling on foot,speaking with children at schools,and helping local businesses improve their crime prevention efforts.Which people represent stakeholders in the community policing intervention?

When Sherif (1966)set out the rationale for why conflict between groups of boys would be reduced through cooperating in the attainment of superordinate goals,he was articulating a(n)______.

During the process of evaluating an intervention,a needs assessment must be conducted to determine whether the evaluation is necessary.

Building on the idea that intentional exposure to a weak strain of a virus can protect people from the virus,McAlister,Perry,and Maccoby (1980)applied ______ to help students to ______.

All too often,program outcomes are vague or impossible to measure.To combat this tendency,stakeholders may use the acronym SMART to develop outcomes that have five criteria.Which one is NOT a criteria of SMART?

Stice and his colleagues' (Stice et al.,2008)successful eating disorder intervention was based on the application of which social psychological theory?

Based on the examples provided in the text,we see where qualitative research methods can play an integral role in designing and evaluating intervention programs.Describe two benefits of using qualitative research methods for interventions.

Qualitative research is useful for designing and evaluating interventions because it allows researchers to quickly and inexpensively measure attitudes and behaviors of large groups of people and to test for changes in attitudes or behaviors over time.

Research by de Visser and colleagues (2015)on reducing alcohol consumption demonstrated that when it comes to intervention and evaluation,qualitative research methods

A summative evaluation also is known as a(n)______ evaluation and is used to determine if the program had ______.

Ethical issues can and are likely to arise in the design and implementation stages of an intervention but never occur during the evaluation stage.

Which is true of the eating disorder program designed by Stice and his colleagues (e.g.,Stice et al.,2008)?

A well-known approach to preventing or resolving ethical dilemmas is to involve various stakeholders-for example,program recipients,frontline staff,managers,board members,and funders-when making key decisions regarding the intervention design or evaluation project.

Research has highlighted that incorporating theory in the design of interventions is both valuable and beneficial.

The focus of the "Intervention and Evaluation" chapter of the book is on ______ interventions.

A major objective (not goal)of the social norm intervention at Northern Illinois University was to reduce ______.

A program is "an organized collection of ______ designed to reach certain objectives" (Royse et al.,2006).

The purpose of a process evaluation may be to assess if the intervention is

The "Intervention and Evaluation" chapter discusses the fact that many social and practical problems are complex and have multiple interdependencies.These interdependencies suggest that in order to be effective in addressing complex problems,interventions designed to address them should be