NCE / CPCE Counselor

Answer: D - All of the choices in this question are reasons that people are likely to blame the victim. An example of blaming the victim that is often used is one of blaming people on welfare for their joblessness or asking people who have been victimized by poverty, robbery, or rape ‘why’ they got themselves into such a situation. Again, it’s the most noticeable, stand out factor that we see first, so we tend to affix blame without looking into the situational factors that are not concrete and conspicuous. Or we use the ‘blanketing’ effect-if a few incidences of people cheating the welfare system are made known, for example, we just assume that all people receiving welfare are guilty of something like it.