Chapter 1: The Science and Practice of Abnormal Child Psychology
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Q1) According to a developmental psychopathology perspective,infants' attending to language is a(n)______ behavior.
A) adaptive
B) probabilistic
C) universal
D) maladaptive
Answer: A
Q2) What is the appropriate role of anecdotes (personal,individual stories of experiences)in clinical practice?
A) Anecdotes alone can safely and ethically guide clinical practice.
B) Anecdotes may contribute to clinical judgment and can be useful when combined with empirical evidence.
C) Anecdotes should not be drawn upon at all in clinical practice, either in discussions with clients or in planning treatment.
D) Anecdotes are safe to consider as models in certain cases, without additional empirical evidence, but only when the anecdote is very similar to the case at hand.
Answer: B
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Chapter 2: The Causes of Childhood Disorders: A Levels of Analysis Approach
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Q1) Martina and Zenia are siblings who grew up in Illinois.Martina,2 years older,loved to dance and play dress-up,while Zenia liked to bike and pick flowers.Which of the following would be considered a nonshared environmental factor for Martina and Zenia?
A) growing up in Illinois
B) having a sister
C) having an interest in activities
D) the particular activities they most enjoyed
Answer: D
Q2) Which of the following is NOT a fundamental ability upon which young children's friendships are based?
A) imitating others' actions
B) having basic competence with language
C) understanding the self as an autonomous agent
D) understanding cause-and-effect relationships
Answer: C
Q3) Attachment style is fixed and cannot change from infancy to childhood.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 3: Assessment and Diagnosis
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Q1) Which of the following is NOT one of the primary activities of mental health practitioners?
A) research
B) assessment
C) diagnosis
D) treatment
Answer: A
Q2) 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
Q3) What is the difference between psychological assessment and diagnosis?
Answer: An assessment involves gathering information (ideally from multiple sources),while a diagnosis entails matching the information (primarily on signs and symptoms)gathered to a set of criteria.
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Chapter 4: Treating Children, Adolescents, and Families
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Q1) Which medications are NOT effective in treating bipolar disorder?
A) antidepressants
B) antipsychotics
C) lithium
D) anticonvulsants
Q2) What is the difference between ethics and morality? Can something ever be ethical and immoral,or moral and unethical?
Q3) Which of the following individuals CANNOT prescribe medication in most places?
A) pediatricians
B) family practitioners
C) child psychiatrists
D) psychologists
Q4) An MD who specializes in the assessment,diagnosis,and treatment of mental disorders is a ______.
A) psychologist
B) school psychologist
C) psychiatrist
D) pediatrician
Q5) What is the difference between cognitive bias and cognitive distortion?
Q6) What is an enmeshed family?
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Chapter 5: Intellectual Disability and Developmental
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Q1) In what ways do boys and girls with Fragile X syndrome differ?
A) Boys tend to show a more severe form of the disorder.
B) Girls tend to produce less FMRP because both of their X chromosomes are typically affected, creating a more severe version of the disorder.
C) Physical abnormalities are more common in girls with Fragile X than in boys with Fragile X, while behavioral challenges are more common in boys with Fragile X than in girls with Fragile X.
D) Boys with Fragile X show more problems in simultaneous processing while girls with Fragile X show more problems with sequential processing.
Q2) Which of the following is NOT one of the three domains of adaptive functioning?
A) conceptual
B) social
C) academic
D) practical
Q3) Heroin use in a pregnant mother is much more likely to result in intellectual disability in the child than alcohol use by a pregnant mother is.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 6: Autism Spectrum Disorder
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Q1) Which of the following best describes the pattern of head growth in children with ASD?
A) smaller than average head circumference at birth, larger than average head circumference at age 1, smaller than average head circumference by late childhood.
B) smaller than average head circumference at birth, average head circumference at age 1, larger than average head circumference by late childhood.
C) larger than average head circumference at birth, average head circumference at age 1, smaller than average head circumference by late childhood.
D) average head circumference at birth, larger than average head circumference at age 1, average head circumference by late childhood.
Q2) Between 85% and 90% of children in the UCLA Young Autism Project proceed through all six stages of the program.
A)True
B)False
Q3) What are some possible reasons that fewer children with ASD now qualify for intellectual disability than did so in the past?
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Chapter 7: Communication and Learning Disorders
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Q1) Norman is counting rubber ducks in the bath.He points to the first rubber duck and says,"one two." Then he points to the second rubber duck and says,"three four." Finally,he points to the third rubber duck and says,"five." He says,"there are five ducks." Norman is expressing difficulty with which of the following?
A) one-to-one correspondence
B) stable order
C) cardinality
D) animacy
Q2) A child who says,"Than-kuh you" instead of "Thank you" is demonstrating which of the following?
A) an omission error
B) a substitution error
C) a sound distortion
D) an addition error
Q3) How might slow processing speed relate to challenges with reading comprehension?
Q4) Grammar is relatively unimpaired in kids with specific language impairment.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Describe how problems in auditory perception may result in language problems.
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Chapter 8: Attention-Deficithyperactivity Disorder
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Q1) Putting children with ADHD to bed an hour earlier was found to ______.
A) give them an hour more sleep per night
B) give them nearly a half hour more sleep per night and triggered reported improvements in their daytime sleepiness, emotional stability, and restlessness and hyperactivity at school
C) give them nearly an hour more sleep per night and triggered reported improvements in their daytime sleepiness, emotional stability and restlessness and hyperactivity at home
D) produce self-reported benefits in behavior, but these were not confirmed by teachers
Q2) How is severity of ADHD determined,according to the DSM-5?
A) based on the number of settings in which symptoms manifest
B) based on the duration of the disturbance and age of onset
C) based on how many of the three primary symptom classes (hyperactivity, impulsivity, inattention) the child exhibits
D) based on how many symptoms, in excess of the minimum required for diagnosis, the person exhibits and degree of impairment in functioning
Q3) Would psychostimulants create any effect for those without ADHD? Why or why not?
Q4) What is the evidence that the dopamine system is involved in ADHD?
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Chapter 9: Conduct Problems in Children and Adolescents
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Q1) Those with low emotional arousal ______.
A) are not interested in pursuing pleasure and excitement
B) need more extreme experiences to obtain pleasure and excitement
C) cannot experience pleasure and excitement
D) need to engage in typical pleasurable experiences much more frequently to obtain pleasure and excitement
Q2) Which is true of the course of childhood-onset CD?
A) Those with callous-unemotional traits have a persistent form of the disorder, while others typically return to normal functioning within 2 years.
B) The majority of those with childhood-onset CD will still have the condition 3 years later.
C) The majority of those with the condition will develop psychopathy.
D) Less than 5% of those with childhood-onset CD can be rehabilitated.
Q3) Setting a fire would fall into which category of conduct problems?
A) property violations
B) aggression
C) rule violations
D) oppositional-defiant behavior
Q4) How does conduct disorder relate to psychopathy?
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Chapter 10: Substance Use Disorders in Adolescents
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Q1) The CAGE acronym ______.
A) teaches adolescents with substance use disorders ways to manage their emotions that don't involve substances
B) reminds clinicians of the common comorbidities of substance use disorders
C) is a way to remember the four main classes of substances that individuals can abuse
D) is a simple screening measure for alcohol use problems
Q2) According to Monitoring the Future,illicit drug use among adolescents ______.
A) is more common than marijuana use
B) is less common than prescription medication misuse
C) is more common for inhalants than for other types of illicit drugs
D) has increased since 1995
Q3) Substance-induced mental disorder ______.
A) only occurs during withdrawal from depressants and stimulants
B) can occur during substance use or during withdrawal
C) usually refers to the development of schizophrenia
D) is most common in those who use inhalants
Q4) Relpase is uncommon in those who have undergone cognitive behavioral therapy.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 11: Anxiety Disorders and Obsessivecompulsive Disorder
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Q1) What is the relationship between gender and panic attacks?
A) Panic attacks are more common in girls, but more severe when they occur in boys.
B) Panic attacks are more common in boys, but more severe when they occur in girls.
C) Panic attacks are equally common among boys and girls, but more severe in girls.
D) Panic attacks are more common in girls, but panic disorder is more common in boys.
Q2) Which of the following best describes the effectiveness of CBT for youths with panic disorder?
A) Evidence has indicated that the cognitive component is most effective for youths. B) Evidence has indicated that the behavioral component is most effective for youths.
C) Evidence has indicated that CBT is not effective in youths with panic disorder unless it includes interoceptive exposure.
D) No randomized, controlled trial of sufficient size has yet investigated the effectiveness of CBT for panic disorder in youths.
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Chapter 12: Trauma-Related Disorders and Child
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Q1) Can escape-avoidance coping ever be seen as an adaptive coping strategy?
Q2) Cognitive restructuring for adolescents who have experienced sexual abuse is based on the finding that many of these youths report negative thoughts about which of the following?
A) themselves, others, and the world
B) the past, the present, and the future
C) themselves, their parents, and their siblings
D) their peers, their teachers, and their academic future
Q3) Supportive therapy is designed to cope with feelings and memories associated with abuse and improve self-worth and relationships.Which of the following components is NOT a main focus of treatment?
A) attachment to caregivers
B) behavioral regulation
C) self-perceptions
D) perceptions of the world and others
Q4) Children cannot be diagnosed with reactive attachment disorder if they have had appropriate care.
A)True
B)False
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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) Complete this statement: No SSRIs ______.
A) are more effective than placebo in treating childhood depression
B) increase the availability of serotonin, modulating it to normal levels
C) are FDA approved for treating depression in children
D) showed a large (>20%) increase in improvement of childhood depressive symptoms over placebo
Q2) Which of the following statements regarding suicidality by ethnicity is true?
A) African Americans report the highest rates of suicidal thoughts.
B) American Indian girls show the highest rates of suicide death.
C) White girls show the highest rates of suicide attempts.
D) Latinas are one of the groups most likely to attempt suicide.
Q3) All of the following are true of girls with depression (as compared to boys with depression)EXCEPT which of the following?
A) Girls tend to show a greater number of symptoms.
B) Girls tend to show more sudden onset of symptoms.
C) Girls tend to show greater likelihood of self-harm.
D) Girls tend to have longer initial depressive episodes.
Q4) Temper outbursts must be physical to meet criteria for DMDD.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 14: Pediatric Bipolar Disorders and Schizophrenia
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Q1) How might youths with bipolar disorders actually increase the number of stressful life events and scarcity of positive life evens they experience?
Q2) What is the evidence that genetics does not entirely account for schizophrenia?
Q3) Carl began showing irritability and difficulty thinking,symptoms of his later diagnosed bipolar disorder,about 14 months before he was first diagnosed.Then,gradually,the number and intensity of symptoms increased.Which of the following best describes Carl?
A) Fourteen months before his diagnosis, he was in the prodromal phase, and he had insidious symptom onset.
B) He cannot be diagnosed with bipolar I disorder because his symptom onset was gradual.
C) The prodromal symptoms Carl displayed were unusual for those with bipolar disorders.
D) Carl should have been diagnosed 14 months ago when the first symptom appeared.
Q4) The combination of hypersexual behavior and elation is only associated with bipolar disorder.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 15: Feeding and Eating Disorders
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Q1) How is peer pressure used constructively in group therapy for anorexia nervosa?
Q2) Given what you know about the neurotransmitter activity patterns in those with anorexia nervosa,why is it unsurprising that SSRIs are associated with poor outcomes for treating this disorder?
Q3) Which feeding or eating disorders are most commonly seen in children with developmental disabilities?
A) bulimia nervosa and binge eating disorder
B) pica and avoidant/restrictive food intake disorder
C) pica and rumination disorder
D) rumination disorder and bulimia nervosa
Q4) 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
Q5) Individuals must purge in order to be diagnosed with bulimia nervosa.
A)True
B)False
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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) 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.
Q4) Sleepwalking tends to occur during REM sleep.
A)True
B)False
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