Advanced Topics in Abnormal Psychology
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This course provides an in-depth exploration of complex and emerging issues within the field of abnormal psychology. Students will critically examine the latest research, diagnostic criteria, and treatment modalities for a range of psychological disorders, with emphasis on neurobiological, genetic, and sociocultural factors influencing psychopathology. Through case studies, primary literature, and group discussions, the course encourages analytical thinking about controversial topics such as the classification of mental disorders, ethical considerations in diagnosis and intervention, and the impact of stigma. This advanced seminar prepares students for graduate work or professional practice by integrating contemporary theoretical perspectives with real-world clinical applications.
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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) Which of the following best describes prevalence rates of mental disorders?
A) Autism spectrum disorder has roughly the same prevalence across all ethnic groups in the United States.
B) All childhood psychological disorders so far studied are more prevalent among African American and Latino children compared to White children.
C) The prevalence of some disorders, such as anxiety disorders, are higher among White children than among non-White children.
D) The prevalence of conduct problems is highest among Latino children, compared to those of other ethnic groups.
Answer: C
Q2) Point prevalence is the percentage of individuals with a disorder at a certain point in time,while lifetime prevalence refers to all individuals with the disorder at any point in their life.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q3) Define the concept of "resilience."
Answer: Avoiding negative outcomes even in the presence of risk factors
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Chapter 2: The Causes of Childhood Disorders: A Levels of Analysis Approach
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Q1) How might schemas perpetuate disorders?
Answer: The child might have a schema that others are friendly,leading to sociability,or a schema that others are out to get them,leading to avoidance of others,or aggressive reactions toward them.This might limit the social network and provide less support to overcome mental illness.
Q2) Which of the following best describes an allele?
A) a gene
B) a slight variation in a gene that can influence the development of different traits
C) a malformed chromosome
D) a nucleotide
Answer: B
Q3) What is the difference between brain development being experience-expectant versus experience-dependent?
Answer: Experience-dependent means that environmental experiences in later life can actually lead to the formation of new neural connections,or changes in the brain's organization and structure.Experience-expectant describes the original formation of a brain region is dependent on information received from the environment.
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Chapter 3: Assessment and Diagnosis
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Q1) When preparing the DSM-5,which of the following approaches was NOT used?
A) formal interviews with individuals currently diagnosed with the disorders in DSM-IV
B) literature reviews of research on each disorder
C) reanalysis of previously collected data to determine the potential effects of altering diagnostic criteria on prevalence rates
D) field trials
Answer: A
Q2) Which classification approach allows a clinician to convey the severity of the condition?
A) full-spectrum assessment
B) categorical classification
C) prototypical classification
D) dimensional classification
Answer: D
Q3) Describing a color as "bluish-green" reflects a dimensional approach to categorization.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 4: Treating Children, Adolescents, and Families
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Q1) The dodo verdict refers to the fact that all forms of adult psychotherapy have been found to be roughly equally effective,overall.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Why might it be preferable to prescribe nonstimulant medication for ADHD to adolescents than stimulant medication?
Q3) According to Albert Ellis,an adolescent client who states,"I need to get into my first-choice college.If I don't,I'm just going to die," is displaying a(n)______.
A) cognitive bias
B) cognitive distortion
C) irrational belief
D) fundamental attribution error
Q4) Why might it be the case that behavior therapy,overall,works best for children?
Q5) When might a rebound effect occur in pharmacological treatment?
A) at initiation
B) during maintenance
C) at discontinuation
D) at evaluation
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Chapter 5: Intellectual Disability and Developmental
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Q1) The standard test for infants with global developmental delay (GDD)is
A) chromosomal microarray (CMA)
B) G-banded karyotyping
C) fMRI
D) genome hybridization
Q2) If we know the cause of a child's ID it would be classified as organic,even if the cause were environmental,such as the mother's alcohol use during pregnancy.
A)True
B)False
Q3) How is adaptive functioning typically assessed?
A) via the child's self-report
B) via an intelligence test
C) via a checklist that parents fill out
D) via a semistructured interview given to caregivers
Q4) How have the relative strengths of those with Down syndrome been capitalized on in teaching them to read?
Q5) What is the difference between mainstreaming and inclusion?
Q6) 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) Empathy involves which two components?
A) understanding another's mental state and how it relates to our own
B) Understanding another's mental state and how it gives rise to their emotions
C) Understanding another's mental state and feeling an appropriate emotional reaction
D) feeling an appropriate emotional reaction and knowing the socially appropriate way to respond
Q2) Which of the following is NOT a specific area of deficit in the social communication of children with ASD?
A) response to feedback and corrections by others
B) interpersonal relationships
C) nonverbal communication
D) social-emotional reciprocity
Q3) Which of the following lessons would benefit most from hand-over-hand assistance?
A) learning that 2 + 2 = 4
B) learning to sit in a chair in the classroom instead of on the floor
C) learning how to tie one's shoes
D) learning how to sound out a new word
Q4) 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) A therapist who told her client with social (pragmatic)communication disorder,"Stop ! I liked how you were talking about the zoo.Tell me more about what you like about it," would likely be trying to teach what skill?
A) initiating conversation
B) maintaining conversation
C) turn taking
D) conversational repair
Q2) According to a comprehensive assessment approach,a child must show a cognitive processing problem to be determined to have a learning disability; documentation of a deficit in an academic skill is not sufficient.
A)True
B)False
Q3) What is the evidence that the anticipatory-struggle theory of stuttering cannot explain all instances of stuttering?
Q4) Children with specific language impairment (SLI)are typically diagnosed ______. A) in the first year of life
B) in the second year of life
C) in preschool or kindergarten
D) in high school
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Chapter 8: Attention-Deficit-Hyperactivity Disorder
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Q1) Which is true of children with ADHD,predominantly hyperactive-impulsive presentation?
A) They cannot have any symptoms of inattention.
B) They tend to be older children.
C) If they don't have inattention problems initially, most usually they do not develop these symptoms.
D) They are disproportionately male.
Q2) Which of the following is true of sleep disorders in ADHD?
A) Dyssomnias, such as problems falling asleep, are typically only seen in youths with ADHD with hyperactive-impulsive symptoms.
B) Movement disorders associated with sleep, such as sleep talking or teeth grinding, account for the vast majority of the excess in sleep disorders between youths with ADHD and youths in the general population.
C) Parasomnias, such as night wakings, nightmares, or night terrors, occur about as frequently in youths with ADHD as in youths with other psychiatric disorders.
D) Sleep disorders are almost never seen in children with inattentive presentation of ADHD.
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) Research on the outcomes associated with the Incredible Years program indicates all of the following EXCEPT ______.
A) children whose families participated in any of the treatment components showed more improvement in behavior than children whose families did not participate B) children whose families participated in multiple treatment components showed more improvement in behavior than children whose families participated in only one C) the most effective component of the program is the SCHOOL program
D) about 25% of parents report that their children have significant behavior problems 3 years after completing treatment
Q2) Provide an example of environmental structuring.
Q3) The child's distress is necessary for a diagnosis of oppositional defiant disorder (ODD).
A)True B)False
Q4) Lying would be considered a covert symptom of CD. A)True B)False
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Chapter 10: Substance Use Disorders in Adolescents
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Q1) Which of the following is NOT among the three main goals of 28-day inpatient treatment programs for substance use disorders?
A) to separate the individual from antisocial peers who perpetuate substance use
B) to attend to immediate medical needs and detoxify the body
C) To help the adolescent understand the harmful effects of the substance use on health and functioning
D) to improve the quality of interpersonal relationships
Q2) Which of the following is NOT a cause of substance use disorder in the deviance-prone model?
A) low parental monitoring
B) early problems with neurobehavioral disinhibition
C) disruptive behavior and academic problems
D) peer rejection and affiliation with deviant peers
Q3) Psychotic symptoms have been associated with the use of which substance in adolescence?
A) alcohol
B) cannabis
C) inhalants
D) anxiolytics
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Chapter 11: Anxiety Disorders and Obsessivecompulsive Disorder
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Q1) One primary difference in separation anxiety disorder between children and adolescents is which of the following?
A) In young children, the disorder is seen primarily in males, while in adolescence the disorder is seen primarily in females.
B) Somatic complaints are more common in adolescents with separation anxiety disorder than in children with separation anxiety disorder.
C) Young children with separation anxiety disorder more commonly worry about harm befalling them or other loved ones through unlikely means, while older children worry about more realistic events.
D) Separation anxiety disorder needn't persist as long to be diagnosed in young children compared to adolescents.
Q2) A primary theory of the persistence of worry,the cognitive avoidance theory,indicates that worry is which of the following?
A) positively reinforcing
B) negatively reinforcing
C) positively punishing
D) negatively punishing
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Chapter 12: Trauma-Related Disorders and Child
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Q1) Child abuse is considered a mental disorder in the DSM-5.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Which of the following statements is best supported by the research on the relationship between mood problems and child abuse?
A) Youths who experience physical abuse or are neglected around the onset of puberty are more likely to develop mood problems than those who experience abuse or neglect at other ages.
B) Children who experience psychological abuse are more likely to develop mood problems than those who have experienced other kinds of abuse.
C) Among those who have experienced child abuse, girls are more likely to suffer mood problems than boys.
D) Researchers believe that internal models of the world as a dangerous place in which only the strong survive is the type of attribution most likely to result in mood problems.
Q3) Heidi was at a school dance when she threw up all over the dance floor.She later described this event as traumatic.Does it meet the definition of trauma? Why or why not?
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Chapter 13: Depressive Disorders and Suicide
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Q1) How does the irritable mood seen in DMDD differ from the mood features seen in disruptive behavior disorders?
A) In DMDD, irritability is more persistent.
B) In DMDD, irritability has earlier onset.
C) In DMDD, irritability has later onset.
D) DMDD involves reliably different environmental triggers.
Q2) Which of the following is true regarding the prevalence of depression in children and adolescents?
A) Overall, it has increased dramatically in the last 10 years.
B) Boys are more likely than girls to have persistent depressive disorder while girls are more likely than boys to have major depressive disorder.
C) The prevalence of major depressive disorder increases dramatically from childhood to adolescence.
D) 20% of youths experience major depressive disorder at any given time.
Q3) The time of greatest risk for a suicide attempt is the first year after hospitalization for a prior suicide attempt.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 14: Pediatric Bipolar Disorders and Schizophrenia
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Q1) The Course and Outcome of Bipolar Youth (COBY)study indicated which of the following?
A) Most youths had persistent mood problems for the 4 years of the study, never experiencing full recovery.
B) Most youths had recurrent mood problems, experiencing another mood episode after the initial one within the four years of the study.
C) Most youths experienced repeated manic episodes but no depressive episodes during the course of the study.
D) The average time to initial recovery was approximately one year.
Q2) Which of the following is NOT a brain abnormality often seen in those with schizophrenia?
A) enlarged lateral ventricles
B) reductions in cortical volume
C) reductions in the size of the hippocampus and thalamus
D) enlarged white matter tracts
Q3) What is the evidence that genetics does not entirely account for schizophrenia?
Q4) Bipolar I disorder and bipolar II disorder cannot be comorbid.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 15: Feeding and Eating Disorders
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Q1) If a mother has bulimia nervosa that increases her children's risk for which of the following?
A) bulimia nervosa only
B) bulimia nervosa and binge eating disorder only
C) anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa
D) depression only
Q2) Osteopenia is associated with which of the following?
A) anorexia nervosa
B) bulimia nervosa
C) binge eating disorder
D) both bulimia nervosa and binge eating disorder
Q3) Child sexual abuse is most closely associated with which eating disorder?
A) anorexia nervosa-restricting type
B) anorexia nervosa-binge/purge type
C) bulimia nervosa
D) binge eating disorder
Q4) A group of clinicians is creating a new eating disorders prevention program.They are targeting the program toward white adolescents under the assumption that other ethnic groups are relatively protected from eating disorders.Why might they have this assumption and how accurate is it?
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Chapter 16: Health-Related Disorders and Pediatric Psychology
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Q1) Which of the following treatments for circadian rhythm sleep-wake disorder has the most evidence supporting its effectiveness?
A) chronotherapy
B) melatonin
C) light therapy
D) antidepressants
Q2) Almost all children have nightmares; therefore,almost all children can be diagnosed with nightmare disorder at one time or another.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Max is participating in full spectrum home training for enuresis.At this point in treatment,Max is being asked to drink a small glass of water immediately before bed.Which part of the treatment is this?
A) urine alarm training
B) retention control training
C) overlearning
D) cleanliness training
Q4) How might parental characteristics contribute to sleep problems in their children?
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