Psychology 2320A/B Chapter Notes -Oppositional Defiant Disorder, Antisocial Personality Disorder, Juvenile Delinquency

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2320A/B
• Professor: Prof

Document Summary

Conduct problems or antisocial beh; are terms used to describe a wide range of age-inappropriate actions and attitudes of a child that violate family expectation, societal norms and the personal or property rights of others. Disruptive and rude-violating beh ranging from annoying to relatively minor beh. Grow up in extremely unfortunate family and neighborhood circumstances where they experience physical abuse, neglect, poverty, etc. Antisocial beh varies in severity, from minor disobedience to fighting, some beh decrease with age, whereas others ^ with age and opportunity, behs are more common in boys than girls during childhood, this difference narrows in adolescence. Legally, conduct problems are defined as delinquent or criminal acts, labeled the term juvenile delinquency; describes children who hhave broken a law, ranging from sneaking into a movie without paying to homicide. From a psychological perspective, conduct problems fall along a continuous dimension of externalizing beh, which includes a mixture of impulsive, overactive, aggressive and rule-breaking acts.