Exam 13: Abnormal Behavior in Childhood and Adolescence

Identify the area of the brain responsible for inhibiting impulsive behavior and maintaining self-control.

Separation anxiety is found most frequently in boys.

Among adolescents, aggressive and sexual acting out may be signs of underlying depression.

Olga is shorter than average. She has mild intellectual developmental disorder with her greatest difficulties in math and science. Although her external genital development is normal, her ovaries are poorly developed and she is infertile. She is suffering from ______.

Anxiety and mood disorders become more common among females than males for the first time during ______.

Major depression rarely occurs before adulthood.

To be diagnosed with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder, the disorder must begin by age ______.

Soiling often appears to follow ______.

Normal children can sit still and concentrate for a while if they want to, but children with ADHD cannot.

Scientists have found no consistent link between vaccinations such as the MMR vaccine and autism.

Which of the following are types of learning disorders?

Research indicates that compared to drug treatments, the urine alarm method for treating enuresis has the ______ success rate and the ______ relapse rate.

Fragile X syndrome can be treated through genetic surgery.

Major depression is ______ among preschoolers.

In 1943, the phrase "early infantile autism" was first applied to a group of disturbed children by ______.

The form of dyslexia in which people's neural circuitry is intact but they rely more on memory than on decoding strategies to understand written words is the ______ form.

Walter is a 13-year-old boy who tortures animals, picks fights with smaller boys, underachieves in school, and talks about committing suicide. His behavior problems suggest That he may have been ______.

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

As measured by scores on standardized tests, most autistic children lag well below the norm in intellectual development.

A mild form of intellectual developmental disorder that is influenced by impoverishment of the home environment is known as ______.