Comp Review Manual Behavior Management/Hospital Dentistry

Question 1

What is the critical age to assess temperament in terms of its predictive value of behavioral problems?

Answer 1

Age 9 and 11 according to teachers, 13 and 15 by parents

Question 2

Whats “goodness of fit” refer to?

Answer 2

Either temperamental match between parent and child or that certain temperaments fit better than others in given situations

Question 3

Is the lack of attachment(strong emotion felt for another person) a predictor of behavior difficulties?

Answer 3

May confer some risk of behavior difficulties later in life but not a strong predictor in and of itself.

Question 4

A child with a secure attachment is more likely to have

Answer 4

higher sociability, effective emotion regulation, compliance with parental requests

Question 5

a child with insecure attachment is more likely to have

Answer 5

lower self control, greater anger, increased behavioral problems

Question 6

Whats the relationship between temperament and attachment?

Answer 6

children with disruptive behavior are more likely to have attachment disorders and vice versa and differences in behavior are most likely related to differences in temperament

Question 7

Maturational theory of child development(hall and gesell)

Answer 7

1. development is internally driven(genetic)
2. very little depends on parenting
3. temperament has no specific role
4. most studies were based on middle class children(discounted)

Question 8

Psychosexual theory of child development(freud)

Answer 8

1. emotional life has strong influence on behavior and development
2. emotions, dreams, frustrations, feelings matter
3. Parent-child interactions influence personality, resiliency, behavior and adjustment

Question 9

behaviorism theory of child development(pavlov, watson, skinner)

Answer 9

1. environment is source of behaviorial change
2. patterns of reinforcement
3. conditioning
4. stimulus-response
5. rewarded behaviors stay, punished behaviors extinguished
6. behavior modifications work to change behaviors

Question 10

social learning theory(derived from behaviorism)

Answer 10

1. society dictates behavior(children learn from social context)
2. Integrate internal processes and environment
3. Development is series of upward spirals based on past successes and failures
4. social experiences fuel future development