HDFS 402 EXAM WITH GUARANTEED CORRECT ANSWERS

family - correct answer two or more persons who are related by birth, marriage, or adoption and who live together as one household functions of theory - correct answer accumulation, guidance & precision, connectedness, explanation/interpretation, both for research and intervention theory - correct answer scientific _____ contain systematically related propositions that are empirically testable. Components: assumptions, concepts, propositions modernist - correct answer objective truths science is value neutral universal principles postmodernism - correct answer no absolute truth theories are value laden social constructionism current worldview cybernetics - correct answer study of feedback mechanisms in self-regulating systems, emerged from study of machines, MIT mathematician Norbert Wiener (1940s), WW2 anti-aircraft guns feedback loop - correct answer process by which system gets information to maintain a steady course negative feedback - correct answer information that signals error, the system to restore status-quo positive