Childhood Psychopathology Exam #1
ACTUAL QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
ANSWERS
Internalizing Disorders - Correct answers✔✔Cannot be seen as readily; defined as problems
turned inwards; defined as a problem of over control; also referred to as emotional problems,
personality problems or inhibition.
Externalizing Disorders - Correct answers✔✔Very obvious and bothersome to others; defined as
problems turned outward; conduct problems are the hallmark; seen as a problem of under
control; also referred to as behavior disorders, conduct problems, or aggression.
Diathesis-Stress Model - Correct answers✔✔It suggests that a biological vulnerability, in
combination with psychosocial or environmental stress, creates the necessary conditions for
illness to occur.
1st Force - Correct answers✔✔Psychoanalysis from Europe - Freud and Jung; what makes us
tick is aggressive and sexual impulses and instincts; unconscious material must be pulled into
conscious awareness with psychoanalysis.
2nd Force - Correct answers✔✔Radical Behaviorists from USA - Skinner and Watson; classical
and operant conditioning.
3rd Force - Correct answers✔✔Humanistic From Europe and USA - Rogers and Maslow;
believe that left to our own devices that we will get healthier with time and we don't need a
therapist to do this for us but will help us get to a healthier state faster
Intermediate Forces - Correct answers✔✔Neo-Freudians (Horney, Fromm, Erikson) - between
Psychoanalysis and Humanism; Trait Theorists (Cattell, Eysenck) Between Psychoanalysis and
, Radical Behaviorism; Social Learning Theory/CBT (Beck, Michenbaum) - between Radical
Behaviorism and Humanism.
Psychological Disorders - Correct answers✔✔a pattern of behavioral, cognitive, or physical
symptoms that includes one or more of the following prominent features: (a) some degree of
distress in the subject; (b) behavior indicating some degree of disability; and (c) an increased risk
of suffering, death, pain, disability, or an important loss of freedom
Nosologies - Correct answers✔✔Efforts to classify psychiatric disorders into descriptive
categories
Stigma - Correct answers✔✔Refers to a cluster of negative attitudes and beliefs that motivates
fear, rejection, avoidance, and discrimination with respect to people with mental illnesses.
Competence - Correct answers✔✔The ability to successfully adapt in the environment
Developmental tasks - Correct answers✔✔Include broad domains of competence such as
conduct and academic achievement and tel how children typically progress within each domain
as they grow.
Developmental pathway - Correct answers✔✔The sequence and timing of particular behaviors
and possible relationships between behaviors over time.
Multifinality - Correct answers✔✔The concept that various outcomes may stem from similar
beginnings.
Equifinality - Correct answers✔✔The concept that similar outcomes stem from different early
experiences and developmental pathways.
ACTUAL QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
ANSWERS
Internalizing Disorders - Correct answers✔✔Cannot be seen as readily; defined as problems
turned inwards; defined as a problem of over control; also referred to as emotional problems,
personality problems or inhibition.
Externalizing Disorders - Correct answers✔✔Very obvious and bothersome to others; defined as
problems turned outward; conduct problems are the hallmark; seen as a problem of under
control; also referred to as behavior disorders, conduct problems, or aggression.
Diathesis-Stress Model - Correct answers✔✔It suggests that a biological vulnerability, in
combination with psychosocial or environmental stress, creates the necessary conditions for
illness to occur.
1st Force - Correct answers✔✔Psychoanalysis from Europe - Freud and Jung; what makes us
tick is aggressive and sexual impulses and instincts; unconscious material must be pulled into
conscious awareness with psychoanalysis.
2nd Force - Correct answers✔✔Radical Behaviorists from USA - Skinner and Watson; classical
and operant conditioning.
3rd Force - Correct answers✔✔Humanistic From Europe and USA - Rogers and Maslow;
believe that left to our own devices that we will get healthier with time and we don't need a
therapist to do this for us but will help us get to a healthier state faster
Intermediate Forces - Correct answers✔✔Neo-Freudians (Horney, Fromm, Erikson) - between
Psychoanalysis and Humanism; Trait Theorists (Cattell, Eysenck) Between Psychoanalysis and
, Radical Behaviorism; Social Learning Theory/CBT (Beck, Michenbaum) - between Radical
Behaviorism and Humanism.
Psychological Disorders - Correct answers✔✔a pattern of behavioral, cognitive, or physical
symptoms that includes one or more of the following prominent features: (a) some degree of
distress in the subject; (b) behavior indicating some degree of disability; and (c) an increased risk
of suffering, death, pain, disability, or an important loss of freedom
Nosologies - Correct answers✔✔Efforts to classify psychiatric disorders into descriptive
categories
Stigma - Correct answers✔✔Refers to a cluster of negative attitudes and beliefs that motivates
fear, rejection, avoidance, and discrimination with respect to people with mental illnesses.
Competence - Correct answers✔✔The ability to successfully adapt in the environment
Developmental tasks - Correct answers✔✔Include broad domains of competence such as
conduct and academic achievement and tel how children typically progress within each domain
as they grow.
Developmental pathway - Correct answers✔✔The sequence and timing of particular behaviors
and possible relationships between behaviors over time.
Multifinality - Correct answers✔✔The concept that various outcomes may stem from similar
beginnings.
Equifinality - Correct answers✔✔The concept that similar outcomes stem from different early
experiences and developmental pathways.
