According to the United States Census Bureau of 2014 <em>over 12 million American children live in poverty</em>. The top 3 states with the highghest rates of child poverty are: Mississippi, New Mexico and Arkansas. Most of these children have parents who work but they earn low wages and have unstable employment conditions so this makes it hard for the families to make ends meet.
He is learning many aspects of gender through <span>SOCIAL LEARNING theory.
Social learning theory refers to a view of behavior which believe that behavior is learned from observations toward our environment.
In this particular case, he learned Men's behavior by observing his father as his sole male figure at that time.</span>
The answer is"Hajj".
The Hajj is a yearly Islamic journey to Mecca and it is also
known as the third pillar of Islamic ideology (one of five pillars), his is a
journey to the holiest city for Muslims, and a compulsory religious obligation
for Muslims that must be completed at least once in their lifetime by every
single grown-up Muslim who are physically and monetarily equipped for
undertaking the excursion. It is not binding upon those who do not possess the
power either financial or physical to undertake the journey. The Hajj is performed in the Islamic month of “Zil-Hajj”,
precisely on the 10th of this Islamic month.
What Dr. Sheffield is doing is testing the validity of the psychological measurement of pathological gambling. The validity testing that he is engaging in is called criterion validity. Criterion-based validity is <em>a type of validity where you test the constructed measurement’s validity against a criterion that has been proven to have a relationship with the measured variable. </em>
In this case, Dr. Sheffield’s testing of his measurement on people who are in gambling anonymous vs. people who are in alcoholics anonymous and the subsequent result shows that his measurement can be used to measure the pathological gambling variable since high scorers for his measurement can be found only in the people who are in the gambling anonymous group.
