Exam 11: Abnormal Behaviour Across the Lifespan

Klinefelter's syndrome involves an extra ________.

People with a severe intellectual disability outnumber those with a mild intellectual disability .

For delirium,__________ is considered to be the core cognitive disturbance.

Overall,childhood depression increases the chances that a child will develop another psychological disorder by at least_____.

Fragile X syndrome can be treated through genetic surgery.

State markers are __________.

The Early Autism Study,led by Mel Rutherford,is developing an early diagnosis tool using __________ technology.

New drug treatments appear to foster cognitive and language development among autism spectrum disordered children.

Tay-Sachs disease is a fatal genetic disorder.

Children with mild intellectual disability can achieve up to a grade ________ level of useful reading and arithmetic with special education.

In most cases,a gene in which a child has a defect will show a normal function in only one parent.

Boys are ________ as likely as females to develop autism spectrum disorder .

Early views on autism blamed ________ parents for causing the disorder.

People with intellectual disability are generally worry free and have been shown to be immune to psychological problems.

Leo Kanner suggested that children with Autism spectrum disorder were reared by overly protective parents that he dubbed "emotional hothouses."

The features of conduct disorder typically appear by age ________.

Among children with intellectual disability,the fewest fall in the ________ range.

In general,prevalence of psychological disorders is lower among older people than among younger people.

Highly anxious children show cognitive biases in processing information such as __________.

Phenylketonuria is caused by ________.