PSY 2710 Study Guide - Summer 2018, Comprehensive Midterm Notes - Psy, Dsm-5, Amygdala
PSY 2710
MIDTERM EXAM
STUDY GUIDE
Fall 2018
PSY 2710
Disorders of Childhood…
Developmental psychopathology
Focuses on the disorders of childhood within the context of life-span development,
enabling us to identify behaviors that are considered appropriate at one stage but not
another
Externalizing disorders
Characterized by more outward-directed behaviors, such as aggressiveness,
noncompliance, over activity, and impulsiveness
Externalizing disorders
Includes attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, conduct disorder, and oppositional
defiant disorder
Internalizing disorders
Are characterized by more inward-focused experiences and behaviors, such as
depression, social withdraw, and anxiety
Internalizing disorders
Includes childhood anxiety and mood disorders
Thailand
_______________: increased referrals for internalizing disorder treatment
USA
_____________: increased referrals for externalizing disorder treatment
PKU
Infant born with a deficiency of a liver enzyme, phenylalanine hydroxylase
-phenyl pyruvic acid builds up in body and can damage the brain by interfering with
the process of myelination
12
ADHD symptoms are present prior to age ______
Specifiers to indicate which symptoms predominate
1. Predominantly inattentive
2. Predominantly hyperactive-impulsive
3. Combined (majority)
Boys
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ADHD is more common among ________
ADHD associated features
Poor social skills, aggressive behavior, and overestimation of one’s social abilities
Dopamine receptor (DRD4)
_________ Genes have been implicated ion ADHD
Neurobiological factors of ADHD
Prenatal exposure to alcohol, nicotine, drugs
Frontal lobe dysfunction
- decrease volume and activity
-conduct disorder, internalizing disorder (anxiety and depression), substance use
disorders, and learning disability
ADHD frequently co-occurs with
Conduct disorder (externalizing disorder)
Repetitive and persistent behavior pattern that violated the basic rights of others or
conventional social norms
"Limited prosocial emotions"
For conduct disorder DSM-5 includes a _____________________ diagnostic specifier
for children who have what are referred to as callous and unemotional traits
-lack of remorse, empathy, and guilt, and shallow emotions
Substance use disorders, and internalizing disorder
Conduct disorder is highly comorbid with:
Boys
Conduct disorder is more common among ___________
Oppositional defiant disorder
A pattern of angry/irritable mood, argumentative/defiant behavior, or vindictiveness
lasting at least 6 months
-can’t count if towards a sibling
Specific learning disorder
condition in which a person shows a problem in a specific area of academic, language,
speech, or motor skills that is NOT due to intellectual disability to deficient educational
opportunities
Intellectual disability
1. Deficits in intellectual functioning
2. Deficits in adaptive functioning
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Document Summary
Focuses on the disorders of childhood within the context of life-span development, enabling us to identify behaviors that are considered appropriate at one stage but not another. Characterized by more outward-directed behaviors, such as aggressiveness, noncompliance, over activity, and impulsiveness. Includes attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, conduct disorder, and oppositional defiant disorder. Are characterized by more inward-focused experiences and behaviors, such as depression, social withdraw, and anxiety. Infant born with a deficiency of a liver enzyme, phenylalanine hydroxylase. Phenyl pyruvic acid builds up in body and can damage the brain by interfering with the process of myelination. Adhd symptoms are present prior to age ______ Specifiers to indicate which symptoms predominate: predominantly inattentive, predominantly hyperactive-impulsive, combined (majority) Poor social skills, aggressive behavior, and overestimation of one"s social abilities. Conduct disorder, internalizing disorder (anxiety and depression), substance use disorders, and learning disability. Repetitive and persistent behavior pattern that violated the basic rights of others or conventional social norms.
