Exam 2: The Causes of Childhood Disorders: A Levels of Analysis Approach

The degree to which parents display warmth and acceptance toward their children,orient their behavior to meet their children's needs in a sensitive and responsive fashion,and engage their children through shared activities and positive emotions is referred to as ______.

The diathesis-stress model is especially helpful in explaining which of the following?

Susanna,age 14 months,has had trouble establishing a regular routine.When things don't go according to plan,Susanna becomes very upset.Which of the following temperaments is Susanna exhibiting?

Problems with emotion regulation are associated with ______.

The results of the Minnesota Longitudinal Study indicate that ______.

Which of the following is NOT one of the three types of gene-environment correlations?

Which of the following is true of temperament?

Your text describes a study (Castellanos et al.,2002)in which MRI was used to scan the brains of children with and without ADHD.Which of the following was true of this study?

Which of the following best describes the results of a recent epigenetic study of children with behavior problems (Dadds et al,2016),as discussed in the text?

There is a theory that children sometimes act out to gain attention.Under this theory,if parents scold children when they act out,children will do so more often.In this case,the scolding is ______.

Apoptosis ______.

What is the difference between brain development being experience-expectant versus being experience-dependent?

Yesenia was listening to the Beatles on her phone while walking home from school when a rabbit darted out into the street and was hit by a car.The rabbit flew through the air and landed right in front of her,where it died.After this,Yesenia can no longer hear the Beatles without bursting into tears and visibly shaking.Which of the following best describes the onset of Yesenia's problem?

Which of the following best describes the findings of Nathan Fox's longitudinal study of the relationship between temperament and psychological disorders?

Huynh has an intense fear of flying.If his therapist were to use flooding,______.

How might schemas perpetuate disorders?

In what ways are the amygdala and hippocampus different?

Attachment style is fixed and cannot change from infancy to childhood.

Defiance and aggression in adulthood are associated with ______.

According to Sullivan,what is the hallmark of satisfying interpersonal relationships?