Describe how children with PTSD might demonstrate re-experiencing differently from adults. What developmental features should be considered in evaluating children for this disorder?
What will be an ideal response?
Children tend to re-experience through traumatic play while enacting elements of the original situation. Developmental aspects must be considered before attempting a diagnosis. A child's age and level of cognitive development will influence behaviors that may be seen in normal children that are similar to problems one might expect in a traumatized child.
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According to Piaget's theory, what is assimilation? Provide an example of how children use this in the sensorimotor stage.
What will be an ideal response?
When a person experiences delusions and/or hallucinations and loses contact with shared views of reality, the person is experiencing a
a. psychosis. b. neurosis. c. nervous breakdown. d. paraphilia.
The levels-of-processing approach suggests
A. that when the initial level of processing of specific information is shallow, the information will be retained for longer. B. that the lesser the intensity of the initial processing of information, the more likely we are to remember it. C. the existence of the three separate memory stores: sensory memory, shot-term memory, and long-term memory. D. that specific information will be retained for longer when the level of information processing is deeper.
The order in which runners finish a 5K race represents the ______ scale of measurement.
A. interval B. ordinal C. ratio D. nominal