PSYC 4052 Midterm: exam 3.docx

• School: CU-Boulder
• Department: Psychology and Neuroscience
• Course: PSYC 4052
• Professor: All

Document Summary

Reactive attachment disorder: markedly distributed and developmentally inappropriate social relatedness before age 5. Excessively inhibited, hyper vigilant, or ambivalent response to social interactions. Diffuse attachments- spreads affections, doesn"t show secure attachment. History of pathogenic care, abuse and/or neglect. Conduct disorder: aggression toward people and animals, destruction of property, deceitfulness or theft, lies/cons others, serious violation of rules, runs away from home. Oppositional defiant disorder: hostile, defiant, fails to comply with adult requests, less serious form of conduct disorder. Biopsychosocial model-pg 503: some of the children has biological parents who were antisocial or substance abusers, these children showed more antisocial/hostile behavior than other children who had biological parents with no history psych. Evidence for a genetic inheritance of kids antisocial tendencies. Adoptive parents of antisocial/hostile parents were more harsh and critical in their parenting. Adhd-attention deficit hyperactivity disorder: 7x more likely to be diagnosed in boys than girls. Predominately hyperactive-impulsive(6 or more symptoms) fidget in their seats.