Question 1

Incidence rates cannot exceed prevalence rates for a given disorder.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False  True

Question 2

What is believed to be true of levels of analysis according to probabilistic epigenesis?

Accepted Answer

A)   Genetics can influence biology and psychology, but biology and psychology cannot influence genetics.
B)   Biology and psychology can influence genetics, but genetics cannot influence biology and psychology.
C)   Genetics can influence biology and psychology and biology and psychology can influence genetics.
D)   Genetics can influence biology but not psychology. C

Question 3

Which of the following is true of students providing services to children in need?

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A)   If students have been trained to provide evidence-based treatment, the treatment will be effective.
B)   Students should not question the evidence for the intervention or the ethics behind the intervention.
C)   Once students have been trained to provide an intervention, it is safe and ethical for them to do so without supervision.
D)   It is recommended that students ask themselves whether there are alternative services that might provide greater benefits to the clients than the ones being provided. D

Question 4

You are a volunteer at a residential treatment facility for children with intellectual disabilities.Over several weeks,you notice that the type of therapy practiced at the facility does not have empirical support and other methods of treatment that have greater empirical support are not being used.What would you do?

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Question 5

Your textbook reports findings from a recent study (Frick,2013)that found an association between single-parent families and increased mental health problems.Which of the following can we conclude from this study?

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A)   Those with low SES will go on, more often than not, to develop mental disorders.
B)   Low SES causes mental disorders.
C)   Mental disorders makes it more likely for a second parent to leave the home.
D)   There is a relationship between single-parent households and increased rates of mental disorder, but the cause cannot be determined from this study.

Question 6

How might an adolescent's ethnicity,religion,or culture influence the likelihood that he might be diagnosed with a mental disorder or be considered "abnormal"?

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Question 7

Which of the following is true of comorbidity?

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A)   It is rare.
B)   It refers to the experience of having one disorder, recovering, and then having a different disorder.
C)   It is especially common in individuals with depression.
D)   It is much more common in children than in adolescence.

Question 8

Nonmaleficence can best be described by the saying ______.

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A)   "First, do no harm."
B)   "There's a bad apple in every bin."
C)   "Always see the silver lining."
D)   "If at first you don't succeed, try, try again."

Question 9

Compared to children and adolescents with other disorders,those with anxiety disorders ______.

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A)   were most likely to receive treatment
B)   were most likely to be treated by a pediatrician rather than a mental health professional
C)   were most likely to receive psychotropic medication
D)   were most likely to be from low-SES backgrounds

Question 10

What does it mean for a behavior to be "adaptive"? Can a disruptive behavior ever be adaptive?

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Question 11

Since 1995,the percentage of youth receiving medication to treat their psychological problems has ______; the percentage of youth receiving therapy to treat their psychological problems has ______.

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A)   increased; stayed the same
B)   increased; decreased
C)   increased; increased
D)   stayed the same; increased

Question 12

Probabilistic epigenesis is ______.

Accepted Answer

A)   not endorsed by developmental psychopathologists
B)   the belief that development is characterized by distinct levels of analysis that do not interact
C)   the belief that genes determine the psychopathological outcome of a child
D)   the belief that different levels of analysis, such as brain structure and peer relationships, interact to shape children's developmental outcomes

Question 13

Which of the following is the primary task of infancy,according to Erik Erikson?

Accepted Answer

A)   to develop the strength and dexterity to walk and babble
B)   to develop emotional connections with people and objects
C)   to establish a sense of trust in a responsive and nurturing caregiver
D)   to distinguish among different entities in the environment

Question 14

Which of the following is NOT a common barrier to treatment for psychological disorders of childhood?

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A)   Families are unable to pay for evidence-based treatments.
B)   Evidence-based treatment is not available in many communities.
C)   Stigma prevents individuals from seeking treatment for mental disorders.
D)   No evidence-based treatments have been identified for most childhood psychological disorders.

Question 15

Which of the following is NOT one of the sociodemographic factors that is considered especially important for understanding psychological disorders,according to your text?

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A)   age
B)   gender
C)   birth order
D)   socioeconomic status

Question 16

Clinical interventions that are not grounded in psychological science can harm children and families.Which of the following is NOT a way identified in the text that scientifically uninformed practice can hurt clients?

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A)   Ineffective treatments can cause parents to lose hope in psychology and treatment in general.
B)   Ineffective interventions can cost parents time and money.
C)   Ineffective treatments have been proven to substantially increase the rates of depression in parents.
D)   Ineffective treatments can be physically harmful to children.

Question 17

Your book describes how treatment rates of children's disorders has increased by 24% in the past decade.Does this indicate that overall prevalence of disorder has increased? Why or why not?

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Question 18

One of the strengths of defining abnormality based on degree of impairment is that it takes into account the distress of those around the individual.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 19

The DSM-5 definition of mental disorder highlights how disorders are dependent on the relationships between people and do not merely exist within the diagnosed individual.

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