PSY 339 Exam 1 Review Questions And Answers
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Plagiarism involves -ANS>1) verbatim material
2) taking original ideas
3) taking sentence structures
what constitutes plagiarism? -ANS>1) borrowed material without proper quotation
or citation
2) formality of the assignment is not a part of plagiarism (rough v final draft)
3) source of material does not determine plagiarism (physical v digital)
plagiarism consequences -ANS>1) 0 credit
2) referred to student judicial services for scholastic dishonesty
3) may receive notation of dishonesty on permanent transcript, failing grade, or
expulsion
importance of citations -ANS>1) garners credibility of own work
2) gives credit to originators
3) allows others to check sources
4) provides source for more information
abnormal behavior -ANS>deviance from societal expectations in...
,1) excess or insufficiency
2) norm violation
3) developmental appropriateness
4) maladaptiveness
which causes a functional impairment
significance of abnormal behavior -ANS>- usually comorbid and environmentally
affected
- typical pattern of (1) distress (2) abnormal behavior with disability or impairment
(3) risk of negative outcome increased with both (1) & (2)
- prevalence of psych disorder = 10%
- prevalence of sub-threshold emotional-behavioral problems = 10%
- more common in disadvantaged, maltreated, victimized, discriminated children
- less than 10% of affected children receive service
accessing treatment -ANS>- must have an observable functional disorder, fit a set
of symptoms, have certain persistence/duration for diagnosis
- Colombia Impairment Scale used to measure impairment
- higher percentage and severity of patients served from 1996-1998 than 2010-
2012
- fewer than half of affected children serviced in 2010-2012
five key questions -ANS>1) comorbidity
, 2) epidemiology
3) developmental trajectory of disorder
4) etiology
5) treatment & prevention
comorbidity -ANS>- high rates
- some disorders have higher prevalence (e..g GAD frequent with panic disorders)
epidemiology -ANS>- prevalence of each disorder and its demographic influences
- 1/5 children in poverty, especially among Natives, Latinos, African Americans
- disorders overrepresented in lower SES families
- males more commonly have neurodevelopmental disorders, externalizing
behavior, and early onset with higher risks
- females more commonly have anxiety/emotional disorders, internalizing
behavior that peak in adulthood
- each gender has more resilience with respective gendered role models/CGs
developmental trajectory -ANS>- quantitative or qualitative; i.e. disorder gets
more severe or changes in behavior
- symptoms are different in children than adults
- language disorders usually quantitative/continuous
- mood disorders usually qualitative/discrete
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