Deck 1: Section A: Introduction to Internalizing Problems

Question 1

Describe the Tripartite Model of Anxiety and Depression and discuss why this is an important concept, developmentally.

Answer 1

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Question 2

Explain how Temperament and Affect interact positively to reduce fear and anxiety, or negatively to increase responses of fear and anxiety. Furthermore, how are these interactions related to the development of internalizing and externalizing disorders?

Answer 2

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Question 3

Which of the following is not considered an internalizing problem?

A) mood disorders
B) anxiety disorders
C) thought disorders
D) somatoform disorders

Answer 3

thought disorders

Question 4

Which of the following is true regarding the DSM?

A) The DSM recognizes three disorders as internalizing disorders.
B) The DSM recognizes only one disorder as an internalizing disorder.
C) The DSM recognizes two disorders as internalizing disorders.
D) The DSM does not recognize internalizing disorders as a category.

Question 5

Which of the following is true regarding the risk for internalizing disorders?

A) In younger children, males are at higher risk.
B) In older children, males and females are at about the same risk.
C) In older children, males are at higher risk.
D) In older children females are at higher risk.

Question 6

Approximately ____ of children will be diagnosed with anxiety disorder annually.

A) 13%
B) 20%
C) 5%
D) under 10%

Question 7

According to the Tripartite Model, which of the following is shared by both anxiety and depression?

A) negative affect
B) physiological arousal
C) low positive affect
D) hyperarousal

Question 8

Negative affectivity is most appropriately defined as

A) hyperarousal.
B) anhedonia.
C) emotional distress.
D) none of the above.

Question 9

In their study of negative affect in children, Wolfe and colleagues (1987) found that

A) there was only a modest correlation between affect and academic success.
B) children's self?report measures were inconsistent for negative emotions.
C) teacher's reports were significantly different from children's reports regarding negative self?view.
D) children's self?reports for negative self view were supported by teacher ratings for depression and anxiety.

Question 10

Developmentally, which of the following is true?

A) Anxiety disorders usually have onset prior to mood disorders.
B) Mood disorders usually have onset prior to anxiety disorders.
C) Mood and anxiety disorders occur at the same developmental period.
D) None of the above is true.

Question 11

Children who are high on emotionality have the greatest risk of experiencing anxiety and fear if

A) they have low effortful control.
B) they have high effortful control.
C) they have low attentional control.
D) they have low behavioral control.

Question 12

When are children and adolescents most likely to visit a physician for somatic complaints that have no physical cause?

A) in the spring when they are motivated to play rather than work
B) in the winter when weather is an issue
C) in transitions periods of entrance to elementary and junior high
D) Children rarely visit physicians for somatic complaints that do not have a medical or physical basis.

Question 13

Sally's mother takes her to the pediatrician because of recurrent complaints of abdominal pain. The physician can find no medical cause for Sally's symptoms. It is most likely that Sally is

A) 8?10 years old.
B) 12?15 years old.
C) also experiencing headaches.
D) Both a and c are correct.

Question 14

Children who experience a conversion disorder are most likely to present with symptoms of

A) gastrointestinal symptoms.
B) concern with being sick.
C) pain in at least four different areas.
D) seizures or loss of balance.

Question 15

Preoccupation Disorders are most likely to have onset in

A) early childhood.
B) early school years.
C) adolescence.
D) middle?age adulthood.

Question 16

Body Dysmorphic disorder is a type of

A) mood disorder.
B) pain disorder associated with psychological factors.
C) preoccupation disorder.
D) conversion disorder.

Question 17

The DSM criteria have been criticized by proponents of developmental psychopathology regarding the diagnosis of somatoform disorders in childhood, because

A) the symptoms are not developmentally appropriate.
B) a diagnosis requires symptoms of sexual problems which are not appropriate.
C) currently, children might only satisfy criteria under the category of undifferentiated somatization disorder.
D) all of the above.