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DSST Lifespan Developmental Psychology
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1. What do doctors agree is the best way to feed babies?
Pons
Breast-feeding
Cerebral anoxia
Best friend
2. List the levels (in order) of Kohlberg's Theory of Moral Development
Automatic - selective - contextual - and creative
Hypokinetic diseases
Preconventional - conventional - postconventional
Organ of corti
3. Defense mechanism: Turning a feeling into the exact opposite feeling
Cones
Reaction Formation
Spermicides
Ethics
4. What part of the central nervous system controls all necessary functions of the body?
Wear-and-Tear Theory
The brain
Erik Erikson
As soon as the bell was rung
5. Sigmund Freud's analysis of human personality and subconscious drives features three main components including:
Functionalism
Long labors or birth complications
Have more bland personalities and often difficult for them to create and maintain intimate relationships as they have a lack of emotional depth
Id - Ego - Super Ego
6. What is: the gland that controls release of hormones from the gonads?
Stage 5
Independent variable
Pituitary gland
Semantics
7. A reinforcer that is physical (tangible) or from the environment - like payment for work - or a prize
Operant conditioning
Extrinsic reinforcer
Thalamus
Biological; Behavioral; Cognitive; Humanistic; Psychoanalytical; Structuralism; Functionalism; Nature vs. Nurture
8. Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs consists of which steps?
Self-actualization - Esteem needs - Belonging and love - Safety - Physical needs
Parietal lobe
Gender role stereotypes
Gender
9. What controls breathing and heart rate?
B.F. Skinner
Pons
The Montessori Method
Echolalia
10. What is the least developed part of a newborn (growth is not complete)?
Young-old
Bell would ring - then feed the dogs - Dogs would salivate when given food - Over time dogs began to salivate simply at ring of bell
Fontanels
The brain/the cerebral cortex
11. What is: a permanent facility control done through surgical procedures?
Sterilization
Amniocentesis
Genetic Mutation
Sexual identity
12. Fourth stage in the Kubler-Ross's Stages of Dying: 'There's nothing I can do about this'
90%
Weak correlation
Preparatory Depression
Longitudinal Study
13. What are the 8 psychological approaches?
Set high standards - assist along the way
Median
Biological; Behavioral; Cognitive; Humanistic; Psychoanalytical; Structuralism; Functionalism; Nature vs. Nurture
Morphemes
14. Pavlovs famous classical conditioning dog experiment.
Lewis Terman
Five
Bell would ring - then feed the dogs - Dogs would salivate when given food - Over time dogs began to salivate simply at ring of bell
Freud
15. Children learn and form their conscience and thoughts of what is acceptable behavior from what?
Sweet - bitter - salty - sour
Occipital - temporal - frontal - and parietal.
Negative Correlation
Watching their parents
16. What 4 main problems do fetal alcohol syndrome cause?
Slowed growth - body/face malfunctions - nervous system disorders - mental retardation.
If the mom and child have different blood types - the mom's cells can attack the baby.
Free morpheme
Proximodistal
17. What is: areas of the body which - when touched - lead to sexual arousal?
Breast-feeding
Osteoporosis
Erogenous zones
Fit in
18. Who argued that classical conditioning explains some behaviors - but operant conditioning plays a much larger role?
Sexual identity
Mental age/Chronological age - x 100
Rh positive
B.F. Skinner
19. What is: an experienced practitioner who can attend pregnancies and deliveries?
Suppression
School-age Child
Fetal death
Midwife
20. How is IQ calculated?
Operant Conditioning
Mental age/Chronological age - x 100
Medicated delivery
5
21. What is the factor that always stays the same?
Classical conditioning
Rh positive
Constant
Cut in half
22. Which lobe is related to body sensations?
Parietal lobe
Amniocentesis
Celibacy
Operant conditioning
23. Biological theories of aging: the number of cells that have problems or mutations that increase w/ age
Inner ear
Cesarean birth
Gilligan
Genetic Mutation
24. Cultural bias not generally known across all subcultures
Operant conditioning
Behaviorism
John Bowlby's Attachment Theory
Psychometrics
25. Third development of language
Obstetrician-gynecologist - family practitioner - or midwife
Stage 2
Ferdinand Lamaze
Hollow phrases
26. Stages of friendship: autonomous - interdependent
Longitudinal fissure
Gene
12+
Nature
27. What are the three things to monitor - to measure temperament in infants?
Ethics
Irritability - social responsiveness - and activity level
Longitudinal Study
Classical conditioning works more to explain reflexive or unconscious reactions - Operant conditioning works to explain elective actions and reactions
28. Which lobe is related to voluntary muscles and intelligence?
Jean Piaget
Frontal lobe
Conservation
Middle-old
29. Theory that every function in the child's cultural development appears twice: first between people - then inside the child.
Social development or social cognition
Double blind
As they age
The brain
30. In a kibbutz - the real parents of children may see them for one hour a day - a time referred to as the __________.
Miscarriages or stillbirths
RU-486
Hour of love
Operant conditioning
31. What is: the amount of pressure produced by a sound wave - measured in decibels?
Amplitude
Negative reinforcer
Stillbirth
Ferdinand Lamaze
32. Defense mechanism: reverting to old behavior to avoid feelings
Phonemes
Socialization
Regression
Maslow
33. Why is self-report data not as reliable as other research methods?
Preparatory Depression
Half (23)
Subjects may be dishonest w/ their answers
Safety
34. A morpheme that must be w/ a word
Put babies on their backs to sleep - and not have anything extra (toys - pillows etc) in the bed or crib.
Depo-Provera
Bound morpheme
Stage 6
35. Who believed that children's thinking doesn't develop smoothly - but instead certain points where it 'takes off' and transitions into new areas?
Kohlberg
RU-486
Jean Piaget
Independent variable
36. What percentage of children are affected by hyperactivity?
Functionalism
Three percent
Infants were placed on a solid - opaque surface - and the mothers were placed at the end of the table - where the opaque ended and glass begun. The infants didn't want to cross the glass because they could see the distance between themselves and the
Depo-Provera
37. What is: where the lens changes its curves to help the eye focus?
Baby Albert
Cross-modal perception
Accommodation
Babbling
38. A type of research done inside of a lab - selected to monitor specific biological changes in individuals by using expensive and sophisticated machinery
Laboratory observation
Norplant
Operant conditioning
Self-report data
39. Stage in which a person abides by the law because they think that law is a higher order; laws cannot be broken under any circumstance; social-order-maintaining orientation
12+
Cut in half
Structuralism
Stage 4
40. What is: the ear's interpretation of a sound's frequency
Pitch
Cross-modal perception
Belonging and love
Temporal lobe
41. Usually has a doctoral degree in psychology plus an internship; cannot prescribe medicine.
Closure
Gradually through shaping
Clinical psychologist
They were not scientifically performed
42. When one variable increase - another variable increases. We call this a what?
Because at birth cells aren't well connected (lacking in myelin - or nerve insulation)
Positive Correlation
Binocular cues
Mainstreaming
43. What is another name for a sound wave's amplitude?
Convergent thinking
Extrinsic reinforcer
Hollow phrases
Loudness
44. What is: the ability to group objects together on the basis of common features?
Habituation
Reaction Formation
Sympathetic nervous system
Classification
45. When do children develop object permanence?
Cross-modal perception
Celibacy
Around age two
Rite of Passage
46. A term used in research used to describe something measurable usually expressed as a number
Midwife
Infants were placed on a solid - opaque surface - and the mothers were placed at the end of the table - where the opaque ended and glass begun. The infants didn't want to cross the glass because they could see the distance between themselves and the
Quantitative
Correlation Research
47. What side of the N/N debate means that all children are first good; believe it is the way they are brought up that affects personality and actions?
Nurture
Half (23)
Sterilization
Around age two
48. What most-extreme fate does syphillis often cause in infants?
The Premack Principle
Infertility
Miscarriages or stillbirths
Amplitude
49. Who created structuralism?
Cooing
Selective attention
Cross Sectional Study
Wilhelm Wundt
50. True or False: Kohlberg believed that you go through each step of moral development one @ a time and could not skip them.
Sterilization
True
Appearance - pulse - grimace (reflex) - activity - and respiration
Neonate