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Chapter 9 - Exam 2
PSYC 315 psychopathology
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| what is adolescent-limited (AL) path? | a developmental pathway to antisocial behavior whereby the child's antisocial behavior begins around puberty, continues into adolescence, and later desists in young adulthood |
| what is adolescent-onset conduct disorder? | individuals show no symptom characteristic of conduct disorder before age 10 |
| what is amplifier hypothesis? | the premise that stress may serve to amplify the maladaptive predisposition of parents, thereby disrupting family management practices and compromising the parents ability to be supportive of their children. |
| what are antisocial behaviors? | they are behaviors that appear and decline during typical development. some decrease with age; others increase with age and opportunity. behaviors such as vandalism, theft and assault |
| what is antisocial personality disorder? (APD) | an adult disorder characterized by a pervasive pattern of disregard for and violation of, the rights of others, as well as engagement in multiple illegal behaviors |
| what is behavioral activation systems? (BAS) | a subsystem of the brain that activates behavior in response to cues of reward or non punishment |
| what is behavioral inhibition system? (BIS) | a subsystem of the brain that produces anxiety and inhibits ongoing behavior in the presence of novel events |
| what is bullying? | when one or more children expose another child, repeatedly and over time, to negative actions, such as physical contact, words, making faces/dirty gestures and intentional exclusion from group. |
| what is callous and unemotional (CU) interpersonal style? | a social interaction that is characterized by an absence of guilt, lack of empathy, uncaring attitudes, shallow or deficient emotional responses, and related traits of narcissism and impulsivity. |
| what is childhood-onset conduct disorder? | the child displays at least one symptom of the disorder before age 10 |
| what is coercion theory? | a theory proposing that coercive parent-child interactions serve as the training ground for the development of antisocial behavior. |
| what is conduct disorder? | a repetitive and persistent pattern of behavior in which the basic rights of others or age-appropriate societal norms |
| what are the symptoms of conduct disorder? | aggression toward people and animals, destruction of property, deceitfulness or theft, or serious violations of rules |
| what is destructive-non destructive dimension? | an independent dimension of antisocial behavior consisting of a continuum ranging from acts such as cruelty to animals or destruction of property at one end to nondestructive behaviors such as arguing or irritability at the other. |
| what is disruptive behavior disoder? | general term used to describe repetitive and persistent patterns of antisocial behavior such as oppositional defiant disorder and conduct disorder |
| what is externalizing behavior? | a continuous dimension of behavior that includes a mixture of impulsive, overactive, aggressive, and delinquent acts. |
| what is hostile attributional bias? | the tendency of aggressive children to attribute negative intent to others, especially when the intentions of another child are unclear |
| what is juvenile delinquency? | a broad term used to describe children who have broken a law |
| what is life-course-persistent (LCP) path? | a developmental pathway to antisocial behavior in which the child engages in antisocial behavior at an early age and continues to do so into adulthood |
| what is multisystemic therapy (MST)? | an approach to treatment that attempts to address the multiple determinants of problematic behavior by involving loved ones and y drawing on multiple techniques as well as specialized interventions. |
| what is oppositional defiant disorder? (ODD) | a pattern of angry/irritable mood, argumentative/defiant behavior, or vin-dictiveness |
| what are the symptoms for ODD? | age inappropriate recurrent pattern of stubborn, hostile, disobedient, and defiant behaviors which usually appear by the age of 8 |
| what is over-covert dimension? | an independent dimension consisting of a continuum of antisocial behavior ranging from overt forms such as physical aggression at one to covert fors (sneaky acts) at the other. |
| what is parent management training (PMT)? | a program aimed at teaching parents to cope effectively with their child's difficult behavior and their own reactions to it. |
| what is relational aggression? | form of indirect aggression in which harm is caused through damage to ones relationships or social status rather than direct physical harm. may involve use of verbal insults, gossip, etc. |
| what is problem-solving skills training (PSST)? | instruction aimed at targeting the cognitive deficiencies & distortions displayed by children & adolescents who experience conduct problems in interpersonal situations, particularly those children who are aggressive. |
| what is reciprocal influence? | theory that the child's behavior is both influenced by and itself influences the behavior of other family members |
| what are psychopathic features? | a pattern of deceitful, callous, manipulative, and remorseless behavior |
| what are social-cognitive abilities? | the skills involved in attending to, interpreting, and responding to social cues |
| what is social selection hypothesis? | the premise that people tend to select environments in which there are other people similar to themselves |
| what are conduct problems? | age-inappropriate actions and attitudes that violate family expectations, societal norms and personal or property rights of others |
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