Belinda is an 8-year old girl who is struggling in school. She is regularly absent from
school as her mother works as a barmaid in the evening and is often too tired to get up
to send her daughter to school in the morning.
Her second grade teacher advised
Belinda's mother to have her repeat second grade because Belinda is struggling to
master basic math and language skills. Belinda's mother refused, explaining that
Belinda was just a "late bloomer" and that she would catch up to her peers. Belinda's
teacher also suggested that Belinda receive special educational testing to rule out the
presence of a learning disability, but Belinda's mother did not think it was necessary
and refused the testing. Belinda may be experiencing:
a. Emotional abuse
b. Physical abuse
c. Educational neglect
d. Physical neglect
e. Emotional neglect
C
You might also like to view...
How does alcohol lead to the behavioral problems associated with fetal alcohol syndrome?
a. It prevents the transmission of inhibitory synaptic messages b. It causes too much myelin to form around the axons in the brain. c. It causes some neurons that get too little stimulation to self-destruct. d. It prevents oxygen and nutrition from reaching the brain of the fetus.
Which type of study is especially valuable for studying rare phenomena and for evaluating the course of a disorder and its treatment?
a. field b. case c. nomothetic d. correlational
Unlike in most Western societies, in most traditional societies, parents
a. have little concern for how their children turn out. b. take full credit r blame for hw their children turn out. c. take little credit or blame for how their children turn out. d. give their children full credit or blame for how they turn out.
A would-be quitter's therapist has him sit in front of a machine that blows smoke in his face while he is smoking one cigarette after another. This technique is called
a. extinction smoking. c. aversive smoking. b. rapid smoking. d. none of these.