Exam 13: Developmental and Disruptive Behavior Disorders

Collin is a very rambunctious child and is often defiant with his parents. When he acts up, his parents have resorted to bribing him to improve his behavior. This has the effect of rewarding his misbehavior. This pattern is known as

Identify the methods of preventing disruptive behavior disorders.

Efforts to prevent developmental disorders may focus on prevention of accidents that cause

Which statement about genetics and development disorders is most accurate?

Youths with disruptive behavior disorders may have been exposed to various prenatal ____ at levels higher than the general population.

People with autism that are found to bite or hit themselves, or bang their head against the wall, are exhibiting

ADHD may be described as an inability to regulate one's own behavior, so medications to help improve symptoms of ADHD focus on increasing

Children with autism may exhibit a strange speech pattern that includes reversal of ____, such as "I" for "you."

Individuals with autism tend to have a ____ corpus callosum and fewer ____ cells, which relate to behavioral inhibition.

Which of the following is NOT a psychological treatment for a person with a developmental disability?

Grouping people with intellectual disability into categories of intermittent, limited, extensive, and pervasive is based upon

Intellectual disability is found

It is especially important for the health of the fetus that women ____ during pregnancy.