Quizzes
In the DSM-5, oppositional defiant disorder and conduct disorders fall under the larger category of ____.
disruptive behavior disorders
More than 70% of practicing clinicians identify their therapeutic approach as ____.
eclectic
____ models portray the child's environment as a series of nested and interconnected structures
ecological
A child who cannot control his temper has problems in emotion ____.
regulation
Intervention focuses on ____.
treatment
The lifetime prevalence rate for ODD and CD are about ____.
12% and 8%, respectively
One reason that ADHD is so challenging is that approximately ____ percent of children with ADHD have a co-occurring psychological disorder
80
Which of the following is true regarding gender differences in antisocial behavior?
Boys are more aggressive than girls in childhood, but this difference decreases or disappears by adolescence.
Which of the following is not true about ADHD-HI?
Children with ADHD-HI are often older than those with ADHD-C
____ approaches to treatment view child psychopathology as the result of faulty thought patterns and faulty learning and environmental experiences.
Cognitive-behavioral
____ describes children who display severe aggressive and antisocial acts involving inflicting pain on others or interfering with others' rights
Conduct disorder
Which is true regarding ADHD and culture?
Differences in the prevalence of ADHD across cultures may reflect cultural norms
Which statement about our genetic makeup is false?
Genes determine behavior.
Which of the following is most likely to cause ADHD?
No single theory has been able to identify a cause
Which of the following is not an additional criterion for a diagnosis of ADHD?
Symptoms must appear prior to age 12.
What does it mean if a test is normed on a group that is representative of the population?
The test is as free from cultural bias as possible.
In high-risk neighborhoods, ____ can protect against the development of antisocial behavior.
a positive school experience
Joshua is considered to have a low-active MAOA genotype. He is likely to ____.
act more aggressively
The failure to master or progress in accomplishing developmental milestones is referred to as a(n)____.
adaptational failure
Behaviors such as fighting, destructiveness, and threatening others are referred to as ____.
aggressive behaviors
Which aspect would generally be assessed by behavioral assessment methods?
anger in school
In comparison to children with ADHD-HI, children with the subtype ADHD-PI are at greater risk of ____.
anxiety/mood disorders
Infants that are wary of new situations and strangers and who often cannot be comforted by the caregiver are likely to have a(n) ____ attachment pattern.
anxious-resistant
In comparison to youth on the life-course-persistent path, those on the adolescent-limited path ____.
are often being influenced by situational factors, such as their peers
Culturally competent mental health services include ____.
basing treatment on what has been reported about a particular culture
Children with ADHD who are at increased risk for conduct or oppositional problems are those who exhibit ____.
behavioral impulsivity
To diagnose ADHD in a child, a psychologist is likely to look for ____.
characteristic patterns of behavior
The most common co-morbid psychological disorder(s) in children with ADHD is/are ____.
conduct disorder and oppositional defiant disorder
Mothers of children with ADHD are also more likely to have ____.
depression
The earliest signs of antisocial behavior may be ____.
difficult temperament as an infant
The ____ classification approach assumes that all children possess the same traits to varying degrees.
dimensional
The siblings of children referred for conduct problems usually ____.
display as much negative behavior as their referred sibling(s)
Neurobiological factors (e.g., low arousal and autonomic reactivity) play a more central role for ____.
early onset CD
Children's early caretaking experiences play an important role in designing parts of the brain that involve ____.
emotion, personality, and behavior
Research demonstrates that, with respect to aggression, girls ____.
engage in more relational forms of aggression
Attachment theory considers crying (in an infant) to be a behavior that ____.
enhances relationships with the caregiver
Which behavior would be characteristic of someone with issues on the internalizing behavior dimension?
feeling sad all of the time
Which symptom would be characteristic of the anxious/depressed dimension of child psychopathology?
feels worthless
The _________ lobes contain the functions underlying much of our thinking and reasoning abilities.
frontal
Neurobiological research on the causes of ADHD has shown consistent support for the implication of the:
frontostriatal circuitry
Which element(s) are typically included in a clinical description?
intensity, frequency, and severity of the problem
Children who engage in covert behaviors only are typically ____.
less social, more anxious, and more suspicious of others
Which part of the brain is most responsible for regulating our emotional experiences, expressions, and impulses?
limbic system
Children with ADHD display ____.
little give-and-take in relationships with peers
Neuropsychological assessments are primarily used to ____.
make inferences about central nervous system dysfunction
General family disturbances include ____.
marital discord and family instability
Elizabeth's parents, teachers, and probation officer met to discuss treatment strategies for Elizabeth's aggressive and criminal behavior. What treatment modality is this?
multisystemic treatment
Children who engage in primarily overt behaviors are typically:
negative, irritable, and resentful in their reactions to hostile situations
Research into causal factors provides strong evidence for ADHD as a disorder with ____ determinants.
neurobiological
A clearly defined group used to compare an individual child's test score against is called a:
norm group
Delinquency, in the legal sense, may result from ____, whereas a mental disorder requires ____.
one or two isolated acts, a persistent pattern of antisocial behaviors
Most often, adaptational failure is due to a(n) ____.
ongoing interaction between the individual and environment
Children who display ____ are at high risk for later psychiatric problems and impairment in functioning.
overt-destructive
To date, ____ has focused mainly on teaching parents to manage the overt disruptive behaviors that accompany their child's ADHD, rather than on changing the deficits underlying the child's ADHD.
parent management training
Which factor has the least bearing on a clinician's approach to assessment, diagnosis, and treatment?
popularity
The finding that externalizing problems are more frequent among minority-status children in the United States is likely related to ____.
problems related to low SES
What is a common goal of treatment?
reduced impact of prior undesirable outcomes
Violations such as running away, setting fires, skipping school, and using drugs and alcohol are referred to as ____.
rule-breaking behaviors
What is an example of cognitive impulsivity?
rushed thinking
Temperament ____.
shapes a child's approach to the environment and vice versa
Today's research and thinking accepts the notion that many childhood disorders:
share many clinical features and causes
Generally, isolated symptoms of behavioral and emotional problems ____.
show little relation to children's overall adjustment
The higher incidence of ADHD in boys versus girls is most likely due to ____.
societal expectations and acceptance
Which of the following is a characteristic of parent-management training for conduct problems?
teaching contingency management techniques
The Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children (WISC-IV) provides a measure of:
verbal comprehension and working memory
A central tenet of developmental psychopathology is that to understand maladaptive behavior, we must consider ____.
what is normative for a given period of development
What might be the most difficult task for a child with ADHD?
working for 45 minutes on a sheet of simple math problems
The process of attachment typically begins between ____ of age.
6 to 12 months
