When students have studied the material in the chapter, they will be able to answer the following:

• Introduction
1. What issues are covered by developmental psychopathology?
2. How does a developmental approach enhance understanding of psychological problems?
3. What roles do heredity and environment play in the development of various psychological problems?
4. What problems should parents and teachers be particularly concerned about at each stage of development?
• A closer look at the developmental perspective
5. How do risk factors and protective factors in childhood predict adult psychological problems?
6. What forms do connections between childhood and adult psychological problems take?
• Explaining psychopathology
7. What are the underlying assumptions of the medical, neurological and physiological, genetic, sociological, behavioral, psychodynamic, and family models of psychopathology?
8. How does a developmental perspective combine the assumptions of the other models?
• Some childhood disorders
9. Discuss the symptoms, most likely causes, and most effective treatments for early childhood autism, conduct disorders, attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder, anxiety disorders, childhood depression, and anorexia nervosa.
10. Why is comorbidity common among children with psychological problems?
• Childhood disorders and development
11. How does the study of developmental psychopathology shed light on the nature of more general developmental processes?