Abnormal Child Psychology 6th Edition Mash Wolfe - Test Bank

,1. A child typically enters the mental health system ____.
a. by asking for a referral from a pediatrician
b. through the criminal justice system
c. by the actions, positive or negative, of peers
d. through teachers, counselors, or parents
ANSWER: d
DIFFICULTY: Moderate
REFERENCES: Introduction
KEYWORDS: Bloom’s: Understand

2. Many child and adolescent problems can be best described as the ____.
a. failure to demonstrate expected developmental progress
b. absence of the key survival skills needed to thrive
c. result of excessive expectations by parents
d. stresses associated with educational demands
ANSWER: a
DIFFICULTY: Moderate
REFERENCES: Introduction
KEYWORDS: Bloom’s: Analyze

3. Most problematic behaviors shown by children are ____.
a. qualitatively different from normal
behavior
b. shown to some degree by most children
c. caused by inadequate parenting
d. indistinguishable from one another
ANSWER: b
DIFFICULTY: Easy
REFERENCES: Introduction
KEYWORDS: Bloom’s: Analyze

4. Interventions for children and adolescents are often intended to ____.
a. restore previous levels of functioning
b. serve as a warning for negative behavior
c. reform behavior to conform to norms
d. eliminate distress and promote further development
ANSWER: d
DIFFICULTY: Moderate
REFERENCES: Introduction
KEYWORDS: Bloom’s: Understand

,5. In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, children’s mental health problems were attributed to ____.
a. possession by the devil or other evil
forces
b. poor parenting practices
c. chemical imbalances
d. low self-esteem
ANSWER: a
DIFFICULTY: Easy
REFERENCES: Historical Views and Breakthroughs
KEYWORDS: Bloom’s: Understand

6. In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, acts of child maltreatment were ____.
a. illegal and punishable by severe fines
b. very uncommon but largely overlooked
c. practiced primarily among lower socioeconomic classes
d. considered to be a parent’s right for educating or disciplining a
child
ANSWER: d
DIFFICULTY: Moderate
REFERENCES: Historical Views and Breakthroughs
KEYWORDS: Bloom’s: Understand

7. John Locke (1632–1704) advanced the belief that children were ____.
a. possessed by the devil
b. uncivilized
c. emotionally sensitive beings
d. young adults
ANSWER: c
DIFFICULTY: Easy
REFERENCES: Historical Views and Breakthroughs
KEYWORDS: Bloom’s: Understand

8. 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
b. he was the first documented individual to use behavioral techniques with children
c. he was a strong advocate for sending disturbed children to asylums
d. he initiated the Massachusetts’ Stubborn Child Act
ANSWER: a
DIFFICULTY: Moderate
REFERENCES: Historical Views and Breakthroughs
KEYWORDS: Bloom’s: Analyze

, 9. How did Jean-Marc Gaspard Itard believe he could tame the “wild boy of Aveyron”?
a. exorcism
b. environmental stimulation
c. allow him to behave as he did in the wild
d. peer modeling
ANSWER: b
DIFFICULTY: Easy
REFERENCES: Historical Views and Breakthroughs
KEYWORDS: Bloom’s: Understand

10. Which method did Jean-Marc Gaspard Itard use to tame the “wild boy of Aveyron”?
a. cold showers
b. tranquilizers
c. timeouts
d. massages
ANSWER: d
DIFFICULTY: Easy
REFERENCES: Historical Views and Breakthroughs
KEYWORDS: Bloom’s: Understand

11. At the end of the nineteenth century, children with intellectual disabilities were regarded as ____.
a. suffering from “moral
insanity”
b. imbeciles
c. lunatics
d. possessed by the devil
ANSWER: b
DIFFICULTY: Easy
REFERENCES: Historical Views and Breakthroughs
KEYWORDS: Bloom’s: Understand

12. At the end of the nineteenth century, children with normal cognitive abilities but disturbing behavior were thought to
be ____.
a. suffering from “moral
insanity”
b. imbeciles
c. diseased
d. possessed by the devil
ANSWER: a
DIFFICULTY: Moderate
REFERENCES: Historical Views and Breakthroughs
KEYWORDS: Bloom’s: Understand