Quiz 2 Child Psychopathology

Which psychological condition is more common among females than males?

Adolescent depression

The fact that vulnerable populations often feel pressure to participate in research studies is a factor relating to which ethical concern?

Voluntary participation

The most commonly used intelligence scale today is the ____.

Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children (WISC-IV)

To know if a treatment would truly be useful in community settings, researchers should focus on treatment ____.

effectiveness

Treatment ____ refers to whether or not a treatment can produce changes under well-controlled conditions.

efficacy

When working with children and families, cultural information is most needed to ____.

establish a relationship with the child and family

Skepticism exists regarding research in abnormal child psychology because _____.

experts on childhood disorders frequently disagree

In ___________________, comparisons are made between conditions or treatments that already exist.

natural experiments

A clearly defined group used to compare an individual child's test score against is called a

norm group.

Functions assessed in neuropsychological tests are most likely to include ____.

perceptual

Emily's mother was asked to complete a behavior checklist on two separate occasions several weeks apart. The results yielded from both occasions were very similar. The behavior checklist can be said to be

reliable.

A leading checklist for assessing behavioral problems in children and adolescents is the ____.

Child Behavior Checklist

Interview questions focused on somatic symptoms for an older child or adolescent with depression could include which of the following?

Do you get muscle pains and aches?

Mal de ojo is an example of ____.

a cultural syndrome

Because there is no one correct approach to research, most problems in abnormal child psychology are best studied by ____.

using multiple methods and strategies

_____ means that the child shows some form of agreement to participate in research without necessarily understanding the full significance of the research.

Assent

____ validity refers to whether scores on a measure behave as predicted by theory or past research.

Construct

____ validity refers to the degree of correlation between measures that are expected to be related to one another.

Convergent

Which behavior would be characteristic of someone with issues on the internalizing behavior dimension?

Feeling sad all of the time

Which element(s) are typically included in a clinical description?

Intensity, frequency, and severity of the problem

Which factor has the least bearing on a clinician's approach to assessment, diagnosis, and treatment?

Popularity

_____ rates refer to all cases of a disorder, whether new or previously existing, that are observed during a specified time period.

Prevalence

This describes a process of gathering information that is used to understand the nature of an individual's problem, its possible causes, treatment options, and outcomes.

Problem-solving analysis

____ means generating predictions concerning future behavior under specified conditions.

Prognosis

____ increases the chance that characteristics other than the independent variable will be equally distributed across treatment groups.

Random assignment

A child's ____ has the most implications for judgments about deviancy and for selecting appropriate assessment and treatment methods.

age

Culturally competent mental health services include ____.

basing treatment on what has been reported about a particular culture

One of the major limitations of observational research methods is that ____.

behavior may be altered as a function of participants' awareness of being observed

Participation in research is done through direct informed consent except when the participants are ____.

children

A ____ summarizes the child's unique behaviors, thoughts, and feelings that together make up the features of a given psychological disorder.

clinical description

The overlapping or co-occurrence of disorders is called ____.

comorbidity

An advantage of behavior checklists over interviews is that checklists allow a clinician to ____ while interviews typically do not.

compare results to a reference sample

The "C" in the "ABCs of behavioral assessment" stands for ____.

consequences

The ____ classification approach assumes that all children possess the same traits to varying degrees.

dimensional

A limitation of psychophysiological measures is ____.

high level of inference for interpretation

The greater the degree of control that a researcher has over the ____, the more a study approximates a true experiment.

independent variable

Taking a child to see three different psychologists and receiving three different diagnoses would be an example of a lack of ____.

interrater reliability

Unstructured interviews tend to be ____ than semistructured interviews.

less reliable and more flexible

In ____ research, the same individuals are studied at different ages/stages of development.

longitudinal

Factors that influence the direction or strength of a relationship of variables of interest are called ____.

moderator variables

The primary purpose of assessment is to ____.

plan and evaluate treatment

The hypothesis behind ________________ is that the child will reveal unconscious fears, needs, and inner conflicts onto ambiguous stimuli of other people and things.

projective testing

Factors such as SES, child's age, and cultural background affect the _____ of symptoms and disorders.

rate and expression

The over-representation of boys with psychological disorders likely reflects ____. *

referral biases

The relationship between assessment and intervention is best viewed as ____.

related and ongoing

Recall bias and distortion are potential limitations of ____ studies.

retrospective

The fact that effects of parental conflict and divorce may not surface immediately but rather years later is an example of ____.

sleeper effect

A ____ assessment measure allows for the scores of one child to be compared to the scores of other similar children.

standardized

The formal assignment of a clinical case to a DSM-5 classification category is referred to as a(n) ____.

taxonomic diagnosis

Research into risk and protective factors requires that large samples of children be studied and multiple areas of functioning be assessed over long periods of time because ____.

the risk and protective factor processes take years to develop