Exam 13: Abnormal Behavior in Childhood and Adolescence

Autistic thinking is the tendency to ______.

People with severe intellectual developmental disorder outnumber those with mild intellectual developmental disorder.

Researchers have discovered that distorted thinking causes childhood depression.

Children with learning disorders are more likely than their peers to be diagnosed with _____.

Children with ______ are intentionally aggressive and children with ______ throw temper tantrums.

The most commonly diagnosed psychological problem(s) in children age 6 to 17 ______.

The course of enuresis typically ______.

Oppositional defiant disorder may be a precursor of ______ disorder.

Compared to boys, girls are ______ likely to attempt suicide and are ______ likely to successfully complete the attempt.

Recently, scientists have speculated that dyslexia may take ______ general forms.

Which of the following diseases carries the risk of causing intellectual developmental disorder in an infant if the mother contracts the disease during pregnancy.

Approximately ______ percent of depressed adolescents eventually develop bipolar disorder.

Dyslexia refers to ______.

Which of the following is true of childhood onset fluency disorder?

Down syndrome is characterized by an extra chromosome on the ______ pair of chromosomes.

Discuss the prevalence, features, and characteristics of savant syndrome.

______ is a disorder formally called mental retardation.

Dyslexia is usually apparent by the age of ______.

Most children with intellectual developmental disorder fall in the ______ range.

Symptoms of ADHD tend to ______.