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Instructor Resource Weis, Abnormal Child and Adolescent Psychology, 3e SAGE Publishing, 2017

Chapter 1: The Science and Practice of Abnormal Child

Psychology Test Bank

Multiple Choice

• Epidemiologists often report the prevalence of a medical or psychological disorder. What is

“prevalence”?

• the number of people in a population with a given disorder
• the percentage of people in a population with a given disorder
• the number of new cases of a disorder in a population
• the percentage of new cases of a disorder in a population

Ans: B

Learning Objective: LO 1.1. Describe the prevalence of childhood disorders and how prevalence varies as a function of children’s age, gender, socioeconomic status (SES), and ethnicity.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Overall Prevalence

Difficulty Level: Easy

• Which of the following is NOT an essential component of the DSM-5 definition of a mental disorder?
• a pattern of behavior that occurs within an individual
• a behavior that reflects an underlying dysfunction
• the consequences of the behavior cause distress or disability
• the disturbance is long lasting

Ans: D

Learning Objective: LO 1.2. Critically evaluate the DSM-5 concept of “mental disorder” as it applies to children and adolescents.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: How Does DSM-5 Define a Mental Disorder?

Difficulty Level: Medium

• How do developmental psychopathologists characterize abnormal behavior?
• behavior that interferes with children’s competence and does not meet the demands of the

environment

• behavior that leads to psychological distress, impairment, and risk of harm to self or others
• behavior that leads to psychological distress, impairment, or risk of harm to self or others
• behavior that is statistically different than the behavior of the typical child

Ans: A

Learning Objective: LO 1.3. Understand and give examples of some of the basic principles of developmental psychopathology.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Adaptive vs. Maladaptive Development

Difficulty Level: Medium

• 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?

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

Ans: C 2 / 4

Instructor Resource Weis, Abnormal Child and Adolescent Psychology, 3e SAGE Publishing, 2017

Learning Objective: LO 1.4. Explain why evidence-based practice is important when treating children and families.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Importance

Difficulty Level: Hard

• Wakefield’s (1992) concept of “harmful dysfunction” ______.
• provides criteria for differentiating normal from abnormal behavior
• requires all mental disorders to have an underlying biological cause
• asserts that genetic and biological factors play a greater role in psychopathology than social-cultural

factors

• assumes that a biological or medical cause of a person’s psychopathology has been ruled out before a

psychiatric diagnosis is assigned

Ans: A

Learning Objective: LO 1.2. Critically evaluate the DSM-5 concept of “mental disorder” as it applies to children and adolescents.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: How Do We Identify “Abnormal” Behavior in Children?

Difficulty Level: Medium

• Which of the following is true of students providing services to children in need?
• If students have been trained to provide evidence-based treatment, the treatment will be effective.
• Students should not question the evidence for the intervention or the ethics behind the intervention.
• Once students have been trained to provide an intervention, it is safe and ethical for them to do so

without supervision.

• 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.

Ans: D

Learning objective: LO 1.4. Explain why evidence-based practice is important when treating children and families.

Answer Location: How Can Students Help Children in an Evidence-Based Manner?

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Difficulty Level: Medium

• Which of the following statements about prevalence is true?
• Point prevalence can never be less than lifetime prevalence for a given disorder.
• Point prevalence can never be more than lifetime prevalence for a given disorder.
• Only lifetime prevalence measures the percentage of people with a disorder at each age.
• Only point prevalence measures the severity of people’s disorders.

Ans: B

Learning Objective: LO1.1. Describe the prevalence of childhood disorders and how prevalence varies as a function of children’s age, gender, socioeconomic status (SES), and ethnicity.

Cognitive Domain: Analysis

Answer Location: Overall Prevalence

Difficulty Level: Hard

• Which of the following is NOT a challenge mentioned in your text when determining prevalence of

mental disorders in children and adolescents?

• There is no single agency that tracks the prevalence of mental disorders in children and adolescents.
• There is no standard definition of what constitutes mental disorder.
• Epidemiological studies use different methods to collect data, each of which yields a slightly different

result.

• Some people do not want to participate in lengthy surveys, or provide inaccurate information.

Ans: B 3 / 4

Instructor Resource Weis, Abnormal Child and Adolescent Psychology, 3e SAGE Publishing, 2017

Learning Objective: LO 1.1. Describe the prevalence of childhood disorders and how prevalence varies as a function of children’s age, gender, socioeconomic status, and ethnicity; LO 1.2. Critically evaluate the DSM-5 concept of “mental disorder” as it applies to children and adolescents.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Overall Prevalence

Difficulty Level: Medium

• How has the overall prevalence of mental health disorders among children changed over the past

several decades?

• It has increased.
• It has decreased.
• It has remained unchanged.
• It increased initially and then decreased to former levels.

Ans: A

Learning Objective: LO 1.1. Describe the prevalence of childhood disorders and how prevalence varies as a function of children’s age, gender, socioeconomic status (SES), and ethnicity.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Overall Prevalence

Difficulty Level: Easy

• Which of the following is true of comorbidity?
• It is rare.
• It refers to the experience of having one disorder, recovering, and then having a different disorder.
• It is especially common in individuals with depression.
• It is much more common in children than in adolescence.

Ans: C

Learning Objective: LO 1.1. Describe the prevalence of childhood disorders and how prevalence varies as a function of children’s age, gender, socioeconomic status (SES), and ethnicity.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Overall Prevalence

Difficulty Level: Hard

• Medication used to treat a psychological disorder is called ______.a. psychotropic
• behavioral
• neurotropic
• hallucinogenic

Ans: A

Learning Objective: LO 1.1. Describe the prevalence of childhood disorders and how prevalence varies as a function of children’s age, gender, socioeconomic status (SES), and ethnicity.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Use of Medication

Difficulty Level: Easy

• Which of the following best describes the relationship between psychotropic medication and age?
• Adolescents are more likely to receive psychotropic medication, even though they are less likely than

young children to experience psychological disorders.

• Children are more likely to receive psychotropic medication, typically because their psychological

disorders tend to be more severe than adolescents’.

• Adolescents are more likely to receive psychotropic medication because they are more likely to

experience psychological disorders, and the severity of these disorders tends to be greater than the severity of children’s disorders.

• There are no major differences in the rates of psychotropic medication prescriptions between children

and adults.

Ans: C

Learning Objective: LO 1.1. Describe the prevalence of childhood disorders and how prevalence varies as a function of children’s age, gender, socioeconomic status (SES), and ethnicity.

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