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PSYCH 317 - Chapter 9

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Mash & Wolfe's "Abnormal Child Psychology" 6th edition, chapter 9 conduct disorders
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Question 1

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A conduct problem refers to age-inapropriate actions and attitudes of a child that violates family expectations, societal norms, and the personal or property rights of another
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  • True
  • False

Question 2

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Children with severe conduct problems _________ grow up in extremely unfortunate family and neighborhood circumstances (abuse, poverty, exposure to criminal activity)
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  • never
  • sometimes
  • often
  • always

Question 3

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In normal development, antisocial behaviour ________ and then __________.
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  • appears, stays
  • appears, declines
  • declines, never returns
  • declines, comes back

Question 4

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Antisocial behaviours are more common in girls during childhood than in boys, but this difference decreases in adolescence. (p271)
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  • True
  • False

Question 5

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Longitudinal studies have found aggressive acts to be highly stable (p.271)
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  • True
  • False

Question 6

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Children with an early, persistent, and extreme pattern of antisocial behaviour account for how much crime in the US? (p.271)
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  • 50%
  • 65%
  • 75%
  • 90%

Question 7

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What is juvenile delinquincy? (p.272)
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  • describes bad kids in general
  • children who commit only serious offences
  • a word only used by TV cop programs
  • children who have broken the law, regardless of severity

Question 8

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The minimum age of criminal responsibility ranges from 7-14 years in most states and provinces. (p.272)
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  • True
  • False

Question 9

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Every child who meets a legal definition of delinquency will also meet the definition for a mental disorder. (p.272)
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  • True
  • False

Question 10

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Conduct problems fall on the dimension of externalizing behaviour. What are the two subdimensions of externalizing behaviour? (p.272)
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  • rule-breaking behaviour
  • verbal assault behaviour
  • aggressive behaviour
  • blaming behaviour

Question 11

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The overt-covert dimension ranges from acts such as cruelty to animals or physical assault to arguing or irritability. (p.273)
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  • True
  • False

Question 12

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What dimension of antisocial behaviour covers the definition: children with overt antisocial behaviour tend to be negative, irritable, and resentful in reactions to hostile situations and experience higher levels of family conflict, while kids with covert antisocial behaviour are less social, more anxious, and more suspicious of others while coming from homes that provide little family support. (p.273)
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  • overt-covert dimension
  • destructive-nondestructive dimension
  • aggressive-non aggressive dimension
  • external-internal dimension

Question 13

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Conduct problems are also referred to as disruptive behaviour disorders. (p.274)
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  • True
  • False

Question 14

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ODD and CD are not collectively referred to as conduct disorders or disruptive behaviour disorders. (p274)
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  • True
  • False

Question 15

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Oppositional Defiant Disorder (ODD) is defined in the DSM-5 as children displaying an age-inappropriate recurrent pattern of stubborn, hostile, disobediant, and defiant behaviours. (p.275)
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  • True
  • False

Question 16

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ODD usually appears by age 5.(p.275)
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  • True
  • False

Question 17

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Children with ODD are often at a greater risk of developing later:
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  • impulse control disorders
  • narcolepsy
  • enuresis
  • substance-use disorders
  • PSTD
  • mood and anxiety disorders

Question 18

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Some findings have found that symptoms of ODD can be grouped into 3 dimensions: negative affect, defiance, and hurtful behaviour. All 3 symptoms have been found to occur consistently with each other.
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  • True
  • False

Question 19

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DSM-5 organizes ODD symptoms into 3 symptom clusters: (p.275)
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  • angry/irritable mood, argumentative/defiant behaviour, vindictiveness
  • angry/irritable mood, externalizing of blame, vindictiveness,
  • angry/irritable mood, argumentative behaviour, internalizing issues
  • low affect/neutral mood, argumentative behaviour, vindictiveness

Question 20

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A child is being diagnosed with ODD. While diagnosing, the clinician is looking at a severity rating. The child has displayed symptoms in 3 or more settings; thus the clinician should apply a severity rating of: (p.275)
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  • mild
  • moderate
  • severe

Question 21

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Percent of children clinically referred with ODD displaying symptoms in 2 or more settings? (p.276)
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  • 40%
  • 60%
  • 85%
  • 90%

Question 22

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Conduct disorder (CD) is classified by a repetitive and persistent pattern of severely aggressive and anti-social acts that involve inflicting pain upon others or interfering with the rights of others through physical and verbal aggression, stealing, or vandalism. (p.276)
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  • True
  • False

Question 23

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What diagnostic tool groups the symptoms of CD into 4 dimensions (aggression to people and animals, destruction of property, deceitfulness/theft, & serious violation of rules)? (p.276)
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  • ICD-10
  • DSM-5
  • my intro to psych prof

Question 24

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CD never co-occurs with any other disorders. (p.276)
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  • True
  • False

Question 25

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The DSM-5 distinguishes between youths wirth an early or late onset of CD. Those with childhood-onset CD display AT LEAST 3 symptoms before age 10.
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  • True
  • False

Question 26

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Childhood-onset CD is more often diagnosed: (p.276)
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  • in girls than boys
  • equally in girls and boys
  • very rarely in either girls or boys
  • in boys than girls

Question 27

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Youths diagnosed with adolescent-onset CD are: (p.277)
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  • as likely to be girls as boys, and do not display the severity or psychopathology that characterizes the childhood-onset group
  • as likely to be girls as boys, and display more of the severity or psychopathology that characterizes the childhood-onset group
  • less likely to be boys than girls, and do not display the severity or psychopathology that characterizes the childhood-onset group
  • less likely to be boys than girls, and display more of the severity or psychopathology that characterizes the childhood-onset group

Question 28

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ODD and CD appear to be distinguishable diagnoses and not highly correlated. (p.278)
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  • True
  • False

Question 29

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Persistent aggressive behaviour and CD in childhood may be a precursor of adult antisocial personality disorder (APD. (p. 278)
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  • True
  • False

Question 30

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APD is characterized by a pervasive pattern of disregard for, and the violation of rights of others
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  • True
  • False

Question 31

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Adolescents with APD may display psychopathic features. Psychopathic features are defined as: (p.278)
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  • a pattern of persistent extrasensory perception, especially psychic abilities
  • a pattern of mindful behaviour towards others
  • a pattern of dramatic changes in temperament that are temporary, but occur multiple times within 6 months
  • a pattern of callous, manipulative, deceitful, and remorseless behaviour

Question 32

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Children with a callous and unemotional (CU) interpersonal style may be at a higher risk for extreme antisocial and aggressive acts, and poor long term outcomes. (p.279)
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  • True
  • False

Question 33

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CU symptoms in childhood are __________ as ODD and CD symptoms over time, but/and may be ___________ during development. (p.279)
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  • as unstable; stable
  • as unstable; unstable
  • as stable; stable
  • as stable; unstable

Question 34

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The DSM-5 has how many specifiers for a CD diagnosis? (p.277)
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  • 4
  • 5
  • 6
  • 0

Question 35

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The textbook argues that Bart Simpson displays symptoms for CD but not ODD. (p.279)
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  • True
  • False

Question 36

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Children with conduct problems tend to score 8 points higher on IQ tests than their peers. (p.280)
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  • True
  • False

Question 37

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Verbal IQ is consistently lower than ___________ in kids with CD. (p.280)
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  • performance IQ
  • mathematical IQ
  • perceptual reasoning
  • working memory

Question 38

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Children with verbal deficits and _____________ display 4 times as much aggressive behaviour as children with only 1 factor. (p. 280)
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  • working memory deficits
  • fine motor deficits
  • family adversity
  • physical health problems

Question 39

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The relationship between different cognitive/verbal deficits and antisocial behaviours may vary for specific types of antisocial behaviours. (p. 280)
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  • True
  • False

Question 40

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Children with conduct problems rarely consider future consequences of their behaviour or its impact on others. This pattern is similar to that which is found in:
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  • Autism
  • Sleep-wake disoders
  • ADHD
  • Depression

Question 41

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Problems in school, such as underachievement, grade retention, special education placement, dropout, suspension, and expulsion are not often found in children with conduct problems. (p.281)
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  • True
  • False

Question 42

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General family disturbances, and spcific disturbances in parenting practices and family functioning are __________ related to conduct problems in children. (p.281)
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  • strongly
  • somewhat
  • weakly

Question 43

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Conflict is especially high in children with conduct disorders and their siblings. (p.282)
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  • True
  • False

Question 44

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Peer rejection in elementary school is a strong ______________ for adolescent conduct problems. (p.282)
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  • protective factor
  • risk factor
  • predictor
  • example

Question 45

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A child who interprets another child as intentionally bumping into him in the hallway is showing a(n): (p.284)
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  • hostile attributional bias
  • conduct disorder
  • weak self-image
  • attachment issue

Question 46

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Low self-esteem is believed to be a primary cause of conduct problems. (p.285)
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  • True
  • False

Question 47

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Rates of premature death are _____________ in boys with conduct problems than in boys without.(p.285)
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  • 1-2 times lower
  • 1-2 times higher
  • 3-4 times lower
  • 3-4 times higher

Question 48

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Evidence shows that conduct problems in childhood are a risk factor for substance abuse in adolescence and adulthood, and is mediated by drug use and and delinquency in early and late adolescence. (p.285)
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  • True
  • False

Question 49

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Which disorders are most commonly found in children with conduct disorders, according to the textbook? (p.285)
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  • ADHD
  • Night Terrors
  • Depression
  • PTSD
  • Bipolar Disorder
  • Anxiety

Question 50

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More than 50% of children with CD also have ADHD. (p.285)
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  • True
  • False

Question 51

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__________% of youths diagnosed with conduct problems will also be diagnosed with depression or anxiety. (p.286)
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  • 35
  • 40
  • 45
  • 50

Question 52

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Some evidence suggests that ODD better accounts for the connection between conduct problems and depression, and that this relationship is driven by the negative mood symptoms of ODD (rather than defiant symptoms in CD). (p.286)
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  • True
  • False

Question 53

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For both girls and boys, __________ severity of antisocial behaviour is associated with _____________ severity of depression and anxiety. (p.286)
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  • decreasing; decreasing
  • decreasing; increasing
  • increasing; increasing
  • increasing; decreasing

Question 54

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All of the current evidence points to co-occurring anxiety to be a risk factor for later antisocial or aggressive behaviour. (p.286)
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  • True
  • False

Question 55

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ODD is more prevalent than CD during ____________, but in _________________ they occur equally as often. (p.286)
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  • childhood; adolescence
  • adolescence; childhood
  • childhood; adulthood
  • adulthood; childhood

Question 56

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During childhood, rates of conduct problems are 2-4 times ________ for boys than for girls. (p.287)
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  • higher
  • lower

Question 57

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Gender disparity in conduct problems narrows through middle childhood, widens again in early adolescence, and then decreases during late adolescence. (p.287)
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  • True
  • False

Question 58

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Early symptoms of CD in girls are often sexual misbehaviours. (p.287)
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  • True
  • False

Question 59

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Conduct problems that are chronic through early childhood to adulthood have a male to female ratio of about 10:1.
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  • True
  • False

Question 60

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Girls are less likely to use indirect forms of relational aggression (verbal insults, tattling, gossip, ostracism, etc) when angry. (p.288)
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  • True
  • False

Question 61

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The earliest signs of conduct problems may be _____________ in the first few years of life. (p.289)
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  • physical aggression
  • anxious/ambivalent attachment
  • disrupted sleep patterns
  • difficult temperment

Question 62

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Most children with conduct problems show ________________________ - they add new forms of antisocial behaviour over time rather than replacing old behaviours. (p.290)
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  • addition
  • diversification
  • combinatory behaviour production
  • additiovisceration
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