Exam 13: Abnormal Behavior in Childhood and Adolescence

About ______ percent of those who stutter overcome the problem without treatment.

The form of dyslexia that is associated with more persistent reading disability and is more prevalent in children from disadvantaged educational backgrounds is ______.

The DSM-5 restricts the diagnosis of enuresis to children whose chronological age is at least ______, or who have achieved an equivalent level of development.

Maternal alcohol use during pregnancy can cause ______.

In childhood, boys are at ______ risk than girls for developing problems of anxiety and depression.

Marcy is six years old. She dreads going to first grade because she worries all day that her parents are going to die while she is at school. She often worries so much that she develops Nausea. At home, she clings to her parents, following them everywhere. She is deeply Concerned about death and dying and wants her mommy to stay with her when she goes to Sleep. She is suffering from ______ disorder.

Fragile X syndrome is the cause of intellectual developmental disorder in one out of every ______ females.

Girls are ______ as likely as boys to attempt suicide.

The cause of Down syndrome remains unknown.

Oppositional defiant disorder typically begins before age ______.

Children with dyslexia lack as much neural activity in the speech centers in the ______ of the brain.

Klinefelter's syndrome occurs ______.

Intellectual developmental disorder is a type of learning disorder.

According to learning theorists, childhood anxieties are the result of ______.

Which of the following statements is TRUE?

Which of the following can be a short-term side effect of using stimulant medications to treat attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder ?

Discuss the rise in the prevalence of autism. What factors have been identified as possibly contributing to the disorder?

______ is the first nonstimulant medication to be approved for the treatment of ADHD.

Many aspects of autistic behavior, such as tantrums and self-injurious behavior, can be diminished through the administration of drugs used to treat ______.

The Developmentally Disabled Assistance and Bill of Rights Act, which Congress passed in 1975, provided that people with mental retardation (now labeled ID) have the right to receive appropriate treatment in the least-restrictive treatment setting.