Advanced Abnormal Psychology
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Advanced Abnormal Psychology is an in-depth exploration of mental disorders, focusing on their origins, classifications, symptomatology, and treatment approaches. The course investigates complex psychopathologies, including mood disorders, psychotic disorders, personality disorders, and trauma-related conditions, integrating contemporary diagnostic criteria from the DSM-5 and ICD-11. Students critically evaluate current research, cultural and ethical considerations, and evidence-based interventions while examining the interplay of biological, psychological, and social factors in the development and maintenance of abnormal behavior. Through case studies and applied activities, learners gain a nuanced understanding of assessment, diagnosis, and treatment planning in clinical settings.
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Introduction to Abnormal Child and Adolescent Psychology 3rd Edition by Robert Weis
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Chapter 1: The Science and Practice of Abnormal Child Psychology
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Q1) Brandi has been barely talking when around other people.From the perspective of developmental psychopathology,which of the following is NOT necessarily true?
A) This is abnormal behavior.
B) We need to determine whether this behavior is adaptive to her environmental context.
C) We need to know how old Brandi is.
D) We need to know from what culture Brandi comes.
Answer: A
Q2) Nonmaleficence can best be described by the saying ______.
A) "First, do no harm."
B) "There's a bad apple in every bin."
C) "Always see the silver lining."
D) "If at first you don't succeed, try, try again."
Answer: A
Q3) Explain Wakefield's (1992)concept of "harmful dysfunction."
Answer: Must have both (a)dysfunction,a failure in some internal mechanism to work in an adaptive way (the way it was naturally selected to operate)and (b)this dysfunction must cause harm (limit or threaten the person in some way).
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Chapter 2: The Causes of Childhood Disorders: A Levels of Analysis Approach
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Q1) What is the difference between brain development being experience-expectant versus being experience-dependent?
A) Experience-expectant refers mostly to infancy and early life while experience-dependent refers mostly to late life.
B) Experience-dependent refers mostly to infancy and early life while experience-expectant refers mostly to late life
C) Experience-expectant refers to sensory experiences whereas experience-dependent refers to motor experiences
D) Experience-dependent refers to sensory experiences whereas experience-expectant refers to motor experiences
Answer: A
Q2) In what ways are the amygdala and hippocampus different?
A) only the amygdala is part of the limbic system
B) only the amygdala plays a role in emotional processing
C) only the amygdala is located deep inside the brain
D) only the hippocampus plays a role in the formation of emotion-laden memories.
Answer: D
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Chapter 3: Assessment and Diagnosis
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Q1) Behavioral observations are only necessary for assessing behavioral disturbances,not mood or cognitive problems.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q2) To be diagnosed with ADHD,one must meet a minimum of six symptoms of inattention or hyperactivity-impulsivity.Jordan has five symptoms of hyperactivity-impulsivity.Which of the following is true?
A) Jordan must not need support services at school, otherwise he would be diagnosable.
B) The diagnosis of ADHD categorically excludes Jordan from a diagnosis.
C) Because Jordan doesn't meet full criteria for ADHD, he is very unlikely to experience significant distress and impairment.
D) Jordan likely differs appreciably from children who fully meet diagnostic criteria. Answer: B
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Chapter 4: Treating Children, Adolescents, and Families
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Q1) How does the ethical principle of competence relate to psychology students who are involved in providing mental health care?
Q2) Dr.Wu has been treating Zane,who is in foster care,for 3 years.Dr.Wu has grown fond of Zane,and when Zane's foster parents decide they can no longer care for him,Dr.Wu considered becoming Zane's foster parent.Which of the following is true?
A) If Dr. Wu becomes Zane's foster parent, that would be considered a multiple relationship.
B) If Dr. Wu becomes Zane's foster parent, Dr. Wu would be able to continue as Zane's therapist ethically.
C) If Dr. Wu becomes Zane's foster parent, it would not be moral.
D) If Dr. Wu becomes Zane's foster parent, it would not be a conflict of interest, because Dr. Wu would be Zane's guardian and hence able to consent to treatment.
Q3) All treatments that are effective are also efficacious and all treatments that are efficacious are also effective.
A)True
B)False
Q4) What is the difference between cognitive bias and cognitive distortion?
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Chapter 5: Intellectual Disability and Developmental
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Q1) The label Intellectual Disability tells us about a person's etiology,symptoms,and likely outcome.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Which of the following conditions is most associated with anxiety?
A) Down syndrome
B) Prader-Willi syndrome
C) Angelman syndrome
D) Williams syndrome
Q3) Which of the following is true regarding the strengths and weaknesses of children with Down syndrome?
A) Most children with Down syndrome show impairments in the first year of life.
B) Most children with Down syndrome have trouble with articulating speech.
C) Most children with Down syndrome show severely impaired visual-spatial reasoning.
D) Children with Down syndrome are more likely to develop psychiatric disorders than other children with intellectual disabilities are.
Q4) Provide an example of the use of positive punishment to correct behavior.Under what conditions would such an approach be used?
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Chapter 6: Autism Spectrum Disorder
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Q1) Which of the following have been approved by the FDA for children with ASD who exhibit challenging behaviors?
A) Strattera and Abilify
B) Abilify and Risperdal
C) Risperdal and Ritalin
D) Strattera and Concerta
Q2) Are medications effective in helping children with autism spectrum disorder? For what symptoms (if any)are medications useful?
Q3) Theory of mind deficits in children with ASD ______.
A) can be assessed by a true belief task
B) are less severe than theory of mind deficits in children with Down syndrome
C) likely underlie the challenges those with ASD can have in complex social interactions
D) result from making incorrect assumptions about the mental states of others
Q4) Can a child be diagnosed with ASD if he or she displays only marked deficits in social communication and hypersensitivity to sensory stimuli? Why or why not?
Q5) Describe some of the evidence for the heritability of ASD.
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Chapter 7: Communication and Learning Disorders
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Q1) What is a tact?
A) a pragmatic approach designed to make the child sensitive to the interlocutor's feelings
B) a touch cue to remind individuals with speech sound disorder how to articulate particular phonemes
C) a command or description
D) a request or question
Q2) Explicit instruction in phonics ______.
A) has not been effective in improving the whole-word reading of those with reading problems
B) produces gains, though smaller gains, than other types of reading instruction
C) encourages grapheme/phoneme mapping and is associated with greatest reading improvement
D) is most effective when provided for large groups where students can learn from each other
Q3) How might challenges with working memory result in challenges with higher-order math skills?
Q4) How might challenges in the representation of phonemes lead to speech sound disorder?
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Chapter 8: Attention-Deficit-Hyperactivity Disorder
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Q1) As discussed in the textbook,direct contingency management has been shown to result in all of the following EXCEPT ______.
A) increasing attention
B) increasing appropriate social behavior
C) reducing disruptive behavior and aggression
D) reducing obedience latency (time to obey a command)
Q2) Which of the following is typically a way in which clinicians help teachers change the environment of a child with ADHD with respect to report cards?
A) Clinicians recommend not using report cards until children's treatment is underway.
B) Clinicians encourage the use of only a single report card at the end of the year, to remove the stress of multiple assessments.
C) Clinicians recommend teachers keep daily report cards of children's appropriate behavior.
D) Clinicians recommend teachers provide weekly reports to the parent and the principal to determine whether or not the child should remain in school.
Q3) Would psychostimulants create any effect for those without ADHD? Why or why not?
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Chapter 9: Conduct Problems in Children and Adolescents
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Q1) Reactive aggression is associated with all of the following EXCEPT ______.
A) impulsivity
B) young children
C) emotion regulation problems
D) extra sensitivity to reinforcement
Q2) Aggression replacement trainng includes all of the following EXCEPT ______.
A) skillstreaming
B) meditation and mindfulness training
C) anger control training
D) moral reasoning training
Q3) Which class of conduct problems is covert and nondestructive?
A) property violations
B) aggression
C) rule violations
D) oppositional-defiant behavior
Q4) The distinction between childhood-onset CD and adolescent-onset CD is ______.
A) whether at least one symptom occurs before age 10
B) whether the criteria are fully met before age 10
C) whether the child is diagnosed before age 10
D) whether the condition is treated before age 10
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Chapter 10: Substance Use Disorders in Adolescents
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Q1) GABAA receptors play a large role in transmission of substance use problems from parents to children.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Which of the following is NOT a cognitive factor related to likelihood of relapse among adolescents?
A) exposure to substance-using peers
B) encouragement to engage in substance use
C) desire to enhance mood
D) not regarding substance use as problematic
Q3) What is the role of expectations in the enhanced reinforcement pathway?
Q4) In adolescents,depression ______.
A) usually precedes the onset of a substance use disorder; the substance is used in an attempt to cope with the depression
B) is very uncommon in those with substance use disorder
C) when it develops, usually develops after the onset of substance use problems
D) is typically a substance-induced mental disorder
Q5) What is the relationship between binge drinking and perceived risk associated with bingeing? Why do you think such a relationship exists?
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Chapter 11: Anxiety Disorders and Obsessivecompulsive Disorder
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Q1) The relationship between generalized anxiety disorder and depression entails all EXCEPT which of the following?
A) high comorbidity between the disorders
B) an increased risk for those with generalized anxiety disorder to develop depression later on
C) a particular risk for those with depression to develop generalized anxiety disorder later on
D) the existence of an "anxious-misery" factor as one that partially explains the development of generalized anxiety disorder and may also relate to depressive disorders
Q2) Mila is afraid of germs.In order to treat Mila,her therapist has her rub her hands in dirt and then she must sit there for 10 minutes without washing it off or using hand sanitizer.At the end of the 10 minutes,her therapist gives Mila lots of praise for tolerating her feared situation.Which of the following is true?
A) This is an example of classical conditioning.
B) Washing her hands would be negatively reinforcing.
C) The praise is positive reinforcement.
D) This is an example of modeling.
Q3) Which medications are most commonly used to treat tic disorders and why?
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Chapter 12: Trauma-Related Disorders and Child
Maltreatment
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Q1) According to a recent meta-analysis,sexual abuse is which of the following?
A) the most common form of abuse
B) more common among girls than boys
C) most typically perpetrated by strangers
D) more common in the south of the United States than in other regions
Q2) Direct exposure to trauma is ______.
A) necessary for a diagnosis of PTSD
B) necessary for a diagnosis of PTSD in those under age 6
C) associated with a greater risk of PTSD than indirect exposure to trauma
D) associated with lower rates of recovery from PTSD than is indirect exposure to trauma
Q3) A father who repeatedly calls a child a "sissy" when he cries,and does so in front of his friends or in public,is perpetrating what kind of psychological abuse?
A) spurning
B) terrorizing
C) isolating
D) denying emotional responsiveness
Q4) Can escape-avoidance coping ever be seen as an adaptive coping strategy?
Q5) In what ways is attachment universal? In what ways is it not?
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Chapter 13: Depressive Disorders and Suicide
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Q1) Ronnie describes his parents as uncaring and unyielding."They won't let me stay out late,even for football games,so I had to quit the team," Ronnie said."It's like they don't remember what it was like to be young." Robbie's experiencing which of the following?
A) grief and loss
B) interpersonal role dispute
C) role transition
D) interpersonal deficit
Q2) Parent training is typically sufficient to treat DMDD.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Girls are more likely to die from suicide than boys.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Temper outbursts must be physical to meet criteria for DMDD.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Why did rates of bipolar disorder in children increase so much from the 1990s through the 2000s? What was the response of the DSM-5?
Q6) What is the evidence for the monoamine hypothesis?
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Chapter 14: Pediatric Bipolar Disorders and Schizophrenia
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Q1) Which type of psychotherapy for youths with bipolar disorders can be administered to multiple families simultaneously?
A) child-focused CBT
B) family-focused CBT
C) psychoeducational psychotherapy
D) family focused treatment
Q2) Mania is ______.
A) required for a diagnosis of any bipolar disorder
B) required for a diagnosis of bipolar I disorder
C) not sufficient for a diagnosis of bipolar I disorder
D) the first set of symptoms to develop in any individual's bipolar disorder
Q3) How do children with bipolar disorders differ from children with disruptive mood dysregulation disorder?
Q4) Coping skills associated with psychoeducational psychotherapy include all EXCEPT which of the following?
A) creative
B) active
C) rest and relaxation
D) environment
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Chapter 15: Feeding and Eating Disorders
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Q1) Millie is a parent whose child has avoidant/restrictive food intake disorder.After the therapist explains the primary treatment of contingency management to her,she is concerned.She says,"That just seems cruel." How might you address Millie's concerns?
Q2) Which approach is used to increase the willingness of adolescents with bulimia nervosa to participate in therapy?
A) exposing dichotomous thinking.
B) performing a cost-benefit analysis.
C) social modeling
D) negative reinforcement
Q3) Complete the following statement: Those with AN ______.
A) almost all recover, though recovery can take 5 years or more
B) almost never recover, with the vast majority continuing to meet diagnostic criteria for either AN or BN
C) is mixed, with about half recovering and about 20% having chronic symptoms putting them at risk for death
D) is split based on age of onset with almost all of those who develop the disorder between ages 11 and 14 having chronic symptoms while those who develop the disorder later are much more likely to recover
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Chapter 16: Health-Related Disorders and Pediatric Psychology
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Q1) Which of the following is true about the prevalence of sleep disorders?
A) It decreases across development.
B) It decreases from early childhood to late childhood and then peaks in adolescence.
C) It increases over time because most of these conditions are chronic.
D) It is highest among those with Tourette's disorder.
Q2) How might parental characteristics contribute to sleep problems in their children?
Q3) A meta-analysis of the effectiveness of group therapy for children with chronic illness (Plante,Lobato,& Engel,2001)has indicated which of the following?
A) It is more effective than placebo.
B) It is no more effective than placebo.
C) Group therapies focusing on managing children's symptoms and improving social and problem-solving skills were associated with greater improvements than those focused on facts about illnesses.
D) Groups therapies that focused mostly on providing facts to families about specific illnesses were associated with greater improvements than those focused on improving social and problem-solving skills.
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