Basic Psychopathology - Ch. 14

A young boy cannot sit still in his first-grade class. He does not seem to be able to follow what the teacher is doing, and his academic performance is not at grade level. Most of his time is spent in motion. These are symptoms of:

attention-deficit / hyperactivity disorder

The disorder in which children attend very poorly to tasks, behave impulsively, and are excessively overactive

attention-deficit / hyperactivity disorder

Which of the following do phenylketonuria and Tay-Sachs disease have in common?

both are caused by a double recessive gene

Recent studies show that children with autism spectrum disorder are MORE likely than other children to have abnormalities in which section of the brain?

cerebellum

Ned's parents are always criticizing him and rarely pay any attention to him at other times. What form of abuse is this?

child abuse/psychological abuse

When a child is used as an object of gratification for adult sexual desires.

child abuse/sexual abuse

at a parent-teacher conference, a child's parents are astounded to learn that their son has been showing up late for school, despite leaving home with more than enough time to get to school. This behavior most closely fits which pattern or conduct disorder?

covert-nondestructive

Children whose parents had two or three, or even one, tour(s) of duty in Afghanistan are at particular risk for:

depression

Children with a diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder often mimic sentences or phrases spoken by others, while copying the accent or inflection but not understanding the meaning. This is called:

echolalia

Terry has autism spectrum disorder. When his teacher asks, "Do you want candy?" Terry responds, "Do you want candy?". This is referred to as

echolalia

A large survey of parents and their children shows that parents:

generally underestimate how worried their children are

anoxia, one possible source of intellectual developmental disorder, involves brain damage resulting from:

lack of oxygen during or after delivery

which one of the following people would MOST correctly be diagnosed with intellectual developmental disorder

one with an IQ of 69 having problems coping with life

the pattern of conduct disorder in which individuals display openly aggressive and confrontational behavior

overt-destructive pattern

Fifteen-year-old Glen has broken the law several times. He has even spent time in a juvenile detention center. The system will likely label him:

a juvenile delinquent or recidivist

An intervention in which parents and their children who have been diagnosed with conduct disorder learn to do behavior therapy- targeting and rewarding desired behavior - is called:

parent management training

Hormonal changes, life demands, and body dissatisfaction, are all reasons that explain why

postpubertal girls have higher rates of depression than postpubertal boys

a person who has difficulty with interpersonal interactions but is otherwise high functioning and would have been diagnosed with Asperger's disorder in the past, will now, in DSM-5, be diagnosed with:

social communications disorder

One characteristic of autism spectrum disorder is that the child is:

socially unresponsive, aloof, uncommunicative

A child is receiving problem-solving skills training as a treatment for conduct disorder. You can be reasonably sure that:

the interventions used are cognitive-behavioral

Which of the following statements reflects current research about the biological causes of autism spectrum disorder?

there are probably multiple biological causes, leading to a common 'brain problem.'

conduct disorder has MOST often been associated with

troubled parent-child relationships

Which of the following is a qualified criminal justice professor MOST likely to say?

"The crimes that juvenile boys and girls commit are different."

Behavioral and somatic symptoms rather than cognitive ones, such as clinginess, sleep difficulties, and stomach pain are MORE characteristic of anxiety disorders:

in children rather than in adults

Child abuse that includes severe rejection, excessive discipline, ridicule, and isolation

psychological abuse