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Abnormal Child Psychology, 7e Eric

• Mash, David A.

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• A child typically enters the mental health system ____.

• by asking for a referral from a pediatrician
• through the criminal justice system
• by the actions, positive or negative, of peers

*d. through teachers, counselors, or parents

• Many child and adolescent problems can be best described as the ____.

*a. failure to demonstrate expected developmental progress

• absence of the key survival skills needed to thrive
• result of excessive expectations by parents
• stresses associated with educational demands

• Patterns of behavioral, cognitive, emotional, or physical symptoms shown by an

individual are defined as ____.

*a. psychological disorders

• defiance of norms
• disobedience
• distress

• Interventions for children and adolescents are often intended to ____.

• restore previous levels of functioning
• serve as a warning for negative behavior
• reform behavior to conform to norms

*d. eliminate distress and promote further development

• In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, children’s mental health problems were

attributed to ____.

*a. possession by the devil or other evil forces

• poor parenting practices
• chemical imbalances
• low self-esteem

• In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, acts of child maltreatment were ____.

• illegal and punishable by severe fines 2 / 4

• very uncommon but largely overlooked
• practiced primarily among lower socioeconomic classes

*d. considered to be a parent’s right for educating or disciplining a child

• John Locke (1632–1704) advanced the belief that children were ____.

• possessed by the devil
• uncivilized

*c. emotionally sensitive beings

• young adults

• The work of Jean-Marc Gaspard Itard (1775–1838) is notable in that ____.

*a. his orientation toward children was one of care and helping, in contrast to the times

• he was the first documented individual to use behavioral techniques with

children

• he was a strong advocate for sending disturbed children to asylums
• he initiated the Massachusetts’ Stubborn Child Act

• How did Jean-Marc Gaspard Itard believe he could tame the “wild boy of Aveyron”?

• Exorcism

*b. Environmental stimulation

• Allow him to behave as he did in the wild
• Peer modeling

• Which method did Jean-Marc Gaspard Itard use to tame the “wild boy of Aveyron”?

• Cold showers
• Tranquilizers
• Timeouts

*d. Massages

• At the end of the nineteenth century, children with intellectual disabilities were

regarded as ____.

• suffering from “moral insanity”

*b. imbeciles

• lunatics
• possessed by the devil 3 / 4

• At the end of the nineteenth century, children with normal cognitive abilities but

disturbing behavior were thought to be ____.

*a. suffering from “moral insanity”

• imbeciles
• diseased
• possessed by the devil

• The first disorder unique to children and adolescents was ____.

*a. masturbatory insanity

• schizoid disorder
• moral insanity
• manic depression

• During the early part of the twentieth century, the biological disease model of

mental problems led to ____.

• the belief that mental illness had no physical basis
• improved treatments
• more controlled research methods

*d. eugenics and segregation

• Freud was the first to link mental disorders to ____.

• neurotransmitter imbalances

*b. early childhood experiences

• possession by evil spirits
• classical conditioning

• Freud’s theory focused on ____.

• single causes of behavior

*b. multiple causes of behavior

• diseases of the mind
• neurological causes of behavior

• Efforts to classify psychiatric disorders into descriptive categories are called ____.
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