Abnormal Psychology Quiz 1

Criteria for Intellectual Developmental Disorder

* Intelligence Level (measured by intelligence test) 
* Impairment in Adaptive Functioning (measured by adaptive skills test)
* Below age 18
* Previously called “mental retardation”

Intellectual Disability (Mild)

IQ 50 to 70 (85% of cases)

Learning Disorder Criteria

* Learning achievement in specific areas is well below expectations given their age, intelligence and educational experience
* Evaluated most often with intelligence and achievement test
* Determination is developed from discrepancy between intelligence and achievement

Developmental Coordination Disorder

* Clumsiness
* Poor athletic skills
* Difficulty in fine motor coordination

Autism Spectrum Disorder

* Impairment in social interaction, communication, imaginative activities and interests
* Features may include some degree of mental retardation, peculiar motor behavior, repetitive behaviors, self-injurious behavior (head banging, biting etc.)

Idiot Savants

A type of autistic disorder wherein the individual has some degree of retardation with one or two outstanding talents

Rett Disorder

Characterized by initial normal development, then deceleration of head growth, loss of hand coordination, peculiar hand movements, incoordination, loss of social engagement, severe retardation (females)

Autism Spectrum Disorder (Asperger’s type)

* Always characterized by normal language and cognitive development
* Impairment in eye-to-eye gaze, facial expressions, body postures, failure to develop peer relationships, lack of spontaneous seeking to share enjoyment, interests, achievements with others, lack of social reciprocity, preoccupation with objects, repetitive motor movements

Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder

* 3 Types: combined, inattentive, hyperactive-impulsive
* Characteristics: difficulty sustaining attention, often does not follow through on instructions, reluctant to engage in activities requiring sustained attention, fidgety, restlessness, excessive talking, interrupts, blurts out, easily distracted by extraneous stimuli, acts as if driven by a motor

Conduct Disorder

* 3 types:
* Childhood onset - one criterion before age 10
* adolescent onset - absence of any criterion prior to age 10
* conduct disorder, unspecified type.
* Characteristics: repetitive and persistent pattern of behavior in which the basic rights of others are violated; aggression to people and animals, destruction of property, serious violations of rules, deceitfulness or theft. (Child and adolescent disorder)

Oppositional Defiant Disorder (Childhood Disorder)

Negativistic, hostile and defiant behavior: often loses temper, argumentative, defies or refuses to comply with adult requests or rules, annoying, blames others, touchy and easily annoyed, resentful, vindictive and spiteful

Pica (Childhood Disorder)

Persistent eating of nonnutritive substances (e.g. paint, dirt, plaster, strings, hair, cloth, items on the floor, etc.)

Rumination Disorder (Infant/Child)

Regurgitation & rechewing of food for at least one month

Tourette’s Disorder (Child)

Jerks, knee bends, retracing steps, twirling, yelps, grunts, snorts, coughs, coprolalia, blinks, grimacing, skipping or other out-of-the-ordinary motor behaviors

Enuresis (Childhood Disorder)

Repeating bedwetting, wetting pants

Encopresis (Childhood Disorder)

Repeating soiling of pants or passage of feces in inappropriate places

Selective Mutism (Childhood Disorder)

Failure to speak in social situations despite speaking in other situations

Separation Anxiety Disorder (Childhood Disorder)

Inappropriate and excessive anxiety concerning separation, excessive distress on separation from major attachment figure, worry excessively about untoward event leading to separation from major attachment figure, fearful or reluctant to leave attachment figure or to be alone, repeated nightmares involving theme of separation, repeated physical complaints when separation from major attachment figure (stomachaches, headaches, etc.)

Major Depressive Episode

Depressed mood, markedly diminished interest or pleasure, significant weight loss or weight gain, insomnia or hypersomnia, fatigue, feelings of worthlessness, diminished ability to think/concentrate, possible recurrent thoughts of death or suicide

Manic Episode

Abnormal and persistently elevated, expansive, or irritable mood of at least one week with inflated self esteem or grandiosity, more talkative than usual, decreased need for sleep, increased activity, or psychomotor agitation, distractibility, flight of ideas or subjective feeling that thoughts are racing