Exam 12: Neurodevelopmental, Disruptive, Conduct, and Elimination Disorders

According to your text, 60% to 75% of children with autism spectrum disorder have IQs:

The onset of autism spectrum disorder is always before the age of

Encopresis is best treated by

Which choice most closely approximates the rate of fetal alcohol syndrome in the U.S.?

____________ is an ADHD intervention designed to teach parents how to reward positive behaviors and decrease negative ones.

An intervention program that provides job training and job coaches to help people succeed in meaningful jobs is called

Enuresis is the repeated elimination of feces on or into inappropriate places.

Supporters of the anti-vaccination movement believe that the ____________ vaccine causes autism.

Applied to children with intellectual disability, mainstreaming means

Which subtype of intellectual disability is the LEAST likely to be caused by biological factors?

Diagnostic criteria for autism spectrum disorder change as research provides more information on the symptoms and causes. Which of the following has been a result of this?

Lesch-Nyhan syndrome, a rare genetic disorder that is transmitted on the X chromosome, affects only girls.

Chromosomes normally come in pairs, but people with Down syndrome have three number ____________ chromosomes in every cell in their body.

Exposure to hazardous environmental factors always leads to intellectual disability.

Worldwide, about _____% of children have ADHD. The disorder occurs about _____ times as often in boys as in girls.

Until the 1970s, autism spectrum disorder was thought to be caused by ____________, or parents who were emotionally unresponsive to their infants.

Which characteristic differentiates oppositional defiant disorder from ADHD and conduct disorder?

The leading known preventable cause of intellectual disability is

Most prominently, children with ADHD have deficits in

Compared with girls, boys are more likely to be diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder.