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DSST Lifespan Developmental Psychology
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. What sends commands to all other parts of the body?
The brain stem
Three
Gentle birth
Rite of Passage
2. Theory that language abilities devlop innately; there must be some mechanism in the brain which aids in language acquisition; who came up with this theory?
Mostly developed by the time of birth
Chomsky
The Premack Principle
Gonads
3. Is there currently a cure for Alzheimer's disease?
Recall
Fontanels
Daydreaming
No
4. Gilligan believed that ________ conflicted between self and other - while ________ conflicted between self and justice
Women - men
Daydreaming
Holophrase syntax
Divergent thinkers
5. Parenting styles: respects individually - but tries to instill social values
Gender
Class inclusion
Subject
Authoritative
6. Therapy that involves the whole family
Family therapy
Closure
2
Subjects may be dishonest w/ their answers
7. Which receptor is more sensitive to light - but is not used to view color?
Increase
Rods
Retina
Middle ear
8. Pavlovs famous classical conditioning dog experiment.
Reinforcer
Bell would ring - then feed the dogs - Dogs would salivate when given food - Over time dogs began to salivate simply at ring of bell
Old-old
Emotional health
9. Who was the psychoanalyst who documented stages of emotional growth in regards to babies?
Ivan Pavlov
Norplant
Infant
Erik Erikson
10. What is the very critical period of the first 3 months in the womb?
Prenatal development
Automatic - selective - contextual - and creative
B.F. Skinner
Recognition
11. What is the method of surgical delivery?
Mental health
Attention Deficit Disorder and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
Zygote
Cesarean birth
12. Which stage of development is: Initiative vs. Guilt? (trying different roles)
In vitro fertilization
Spiritual - emotional - mental - and social health
Hippocampus
Preschooler
13. After how many cigarettes will the fetus definitely have problems--with a 50% greater risk of childhood cancer?
The cloth monkey
Conservation
Cognitive
Five
14. What is caused by one extra chromosome in the number 21?
Allow the skull's plates of bone to shift or flex - making childbirth easier.
William James
Psychoanalytical
Down syndrome
15. If a mother catches rubella in first trimester - what is the chance that the fetus is affected?
Cerebellum
Morality of Justice
90%
Experimental group and control group
16. The final stage of Maslow's Hierarchy of needs. A stage you may never actually meet.
Self-actualization - Esteem needs - Belonging and love - Safety - Physical needs
Reinforcer
Self-actualization
Three percent
17. Fourth step in Maslow's Hierarchy of needs in which you begin to think about you self-esteem and how you feel as a person
Spermicides
Mental health
Because at birth cells aren't well connected (lacking in myelin - or nerve insulation)
Esteem needs
18. Stages of friendship: autonomous - interdependent
Endocrine system
Encoding the information - represnting the information - and retrieving information from memory.
12+
Morphemes
19. Which lobe is related to vision?
Cephalocaudal and Proximodistal
Social development or social cognition
Occipital lobe
Wear-and-Tear Theory
20. Who conducted a longitudinal study of smart kids - resulting that they become happy adults?
Auditory System
Alfred Binet
Lewis Terman
Sympathetic nervous system
21. Not physical abuse but when the child feels rejected or feels failure
Maslow
Classical conditioning
Psychological maltreatment
Infant
22. What is: the process by which a society identifies its expectations?
Accommodation
Long labors or birth complications
Not fully developed; but can distinguish color - track movement - and bright objects.
Socialization
23. How can parents avoid down syndrome in their children?
Conceive at younger ages
Genetic Mutation
Cerebral anoxia
Stillbirth
24. What is: where the lens changes its curves to help the eye focus?
Nurture
Accommodation
Timbre
Nature
25. What thought process characterizes creative - gifted - or advanced children?
Safety
Irritability - social responsiveness - and activity level
Old-old
Divergent thinkers
26. Observing someone's behavior and basing our own behavior on it
Modeling
Teratology
Longitudinal fissure
3 & 4
27. Fourth development of language
Psychological Tests
Telegraphic speech
Pituitary gland
Contraception
28. Defense mechanism: transferring your thoughts and feelings onto others
Operation
Correlation Research
Allow the skull's plates of bone to shift or flex - making childbirth easier.
Projection
29. Which lobe is related to voluntary muscles and intelligence?
Projection
Belonging and love
3 & 4
Frontal lobe
30. What is the most dangerous trimester for the fetus (in regard to drug/alcohol use)?
Adolescent Egocentrism
Ageism
First trimester
Unoccupied behavior - onlooker - solitary independent (plays alone) - parallel play (plays around but not w/ others) - associative - cooperative play
31. What is: an M.D. who specializes in OB-GYN?
Adrenal glands
Mean
Wilhelm Wundt
Obstetrician-gynecologist
32. Believed each person had an idea of a 'perfect person' and tried to work towards being like that person as much as possible - believing that people needed to become 'fully functioning' individuals
Carl Rogers
Because at birth cells aren't well connected (lacking in myelin - or nerve insulation)
Mental age/Chronological age - x 100
Harry Harlow
33. A collection of data from all cases or people in the chosen set
Preconventional Morality
1 in 14 -000
Pupil
A census
34. 1 + 5 + 6. What is the mean?
Longitudinal fissure
Stage
4
Cerebellum
35. What is: the theory focused on 'how' of behavior; minds are a continuous flow of information about experiences - and role is to study the mind/behavior as they adapt to the environment
Subject
Egocentric behavior
Functionalism
Morality of Justice
36. First element to Vygotsky's theory: what does social interaction facilitate?
Gestalt psychology
Sympathetic nervous system
Stage 2
Cognitive improvement
37. What are the three different types of teratogens?
Nature
Super Ego
Drugs - diseases (like HIV - rubella) - and pollutants (mercury - radiation - etc)
Morality of Justice
38. The awareness of being a male or female
Gilligan
Natural prepared childbirth
Gender identity
Humanistic Theorists
39. Second element: The presence of someone who knows more in an area - like a parent - teacher - coach - etc.?
Automatic - selective - contextual - and creative
Injections
More Knowledgeable Other (MKO)
Personality
40. What are: drugs taken within three days to prevent pregnancy from instances such as no protection - or a broken condom?
Emergency contraception
Displacement
Consciousness
3 & 4
41. In a study - the researchers have direct control over this variable
Super Ego
Informed consent
Independent variable
Auditory System
42. When something from conditioning carries over to another related area; made baby Albert afraid of all furry animals - rather than just rats
Punishment
Stimulus generalization
Mean
Bargaining
43. Rang the bell each time he fed the dog; eventually how early did the dogs start salivating?
As soon as the bell was rung
Displacement
Cross-modal perception
Natural prepared childbirth
44. What percent of children in kindergarten are immunized?
Displacement
Cross-modal perception
3-7
99%
45. Stages of friendship: one way assistance
Pituitary gland
Stage 1
Full (46)
4-9
46. Usually has a doctoral degree in psychology plus an internship; cannot prescribe medicine.
Subjects may be dishonest w/ their answers
True
Five
Clinical psychologist
47. What is: irrelevant stimuli that compete for our attention (like traffic)
Noise
Intrinsic reinforcer
Stage 1
Ivan Pavlov
48. Jean Piaget extensively used which research method to study children?
Maslow
Rods
Nature vs. nurture
Natural observation
49. What is: growth from the head downward (head develops before rest of the body)?
Norplant
Cephalocaudal
Babbling
Commissures
50. What is the opening of the iris - which looks black?
Abortion
Free morpheme
Pupil
Mainstreaming