Children who engage in primarily overt behaviors are typically:
a. from families that provide little family support
b. less social, more anxious, and more suspicious of others
c. negative, irritable, and resentful in their reactions to hostile situations
d. sneaky with others
Question 2Children who engage in covert behaviors only are typically ____.
a. aggressive as well
b. negative, irritable, and resentful in their reactions to stressful situations
c. from families that experience significant conflict
d. less social, more anxious, and more suspicious of others
Question 3Behaviors such as fighting, destructiveness, and threatening others are referred to as ____.
a. aggressive behaviors
b. delinquent behaviors
c. rule-breaking behaviors
d. internalizing behaviors
Question 4Violations such as running away, setting fires, skipping school, and using drugs and alcohol are referred to as ____.
a. aggressive behaviors
b. delinquent behaviors
c. internalizing behaviors
d. rule-breaking behaviors
Question 5Delinquency, in the legal sense, may result from ____, whereas a mental disorder requires ____.
a. one or two isolated acts, several isolated acts
b. a persistent pattern of antisocial behaviors, one or two isolated acts
c. one or two isolated acts, a persistent pattern of antisocial behaviors
d. related acts, unrelated acts
Question 6Which statement about the stability of antisocial behavior is true?
a. Aggressive behavior is relatively unstable over the course of the lifespan.
b. Aggressive behavior is highly stable for brief periods of the lifespan.
c. Aggressive behavior is not as stable as IQ scores.
d. Aggressive behavior is highly stable over the course of the lifespan, about as stable as IQ scores
Quick Reply
