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DSST Lifespan Developmental Psychology
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1. What is: your thoughts about what gives life purpose--the meaning of life - religion
Spermicides
Cerebral cortex
Rite of Passage
Spiritual health
2. What is: a person's attraction to other people?
As soon as the bell was rung
Sexual orientation
Lewis Terman
Loudness
3. In a child - can be expressed as 'nobody likes me'
Bargaining
Psychiatrist
Childhood depression
Smell
4. Also called learning theory - based on the principle of observing and correcting behavior
Hurried-child
Behaviorism
Authoritarian
Fetal alcohol syndrome
5. What is a disease also called German measles?
Displacement
Weak correlation
Rubella
Recognition
6. Which receptor is used for color vision?
Cones
School-age Child
Chomsky
Excitement - plateau - orgasm - and resolution phases
7. Third element: There is a gap between what the child can do with help - and what they can do on their own; shows when a child has finally learned it
Zone of Proximal Development
B.F. Skinner
Inner ear
Cephalocaudal and Proximodistal
8. What is the name of the largest commissure?
William James
Object permanence
Corpus callosum
Weak correlation
9. Why is autism rare in children for the first 2 1/2 years?
10. What is a specific period in development when a certain event has the greatest impact? (For example - a certain period of time when a young bird can learn to fly)
50%
Critical period
If the mom and child have different blood types - the mom's cells can attack the baby.
Spiritual - emotional - mental - and social health
11. What two things make up the central nervous system?
Spiritual health
Emotional neglect
Brain and spinal cord
Pons
12. What are the 8 psychological approaches?
Bisexual
Longitudinal Study
Self-actualization
Biological; Behavioral; Cognitive; Humanistic; Psychoanalytical; Structuralism; Functionalism; Nature vs. Nurture
13. Level 1 of Kohlberg's Theory of Moral Development includes which stages
1 & 2
Gilligan
No
The brain/the cerebral cortex
14. Pavlovs famous classical conditioning dog experiment.
Bell would ring - then feed the dogs - Dogs would salivate when given food - Over time dogs began to salivate simply at ring of bell
Gentle birth
Alfred Binet
Invincibility fable
15. What is the term for lack of responsiveness to other people?
Toxic shock syndrome
Ageism
Projection
Autism
16. What is the white part of the eye that protects and manages the shape of the eye?
Self-report data
Selera
More Knowledgeable Other (MKO)
Olfactory epithelium
17. 1 + 5 + 6. What is the mean?
4
Perception
Negative Correlation
Autoerotic behavior
18. What are the four areas of taste that taste-buds recognize?
Cognitive improvement
Cesarean birth
Equilibrium
Sweet - bitter - salty - sour
19. What is: growth from the center (spine) outward - where vital organs form before the extremities?
The cerebrum
Proximodistal
Assimilation
Avoid punishment
20. Stages that a person goes through when they find out they have an incurable disease or find out they are going to die
21. Who believed that the unconscious motivates our actions - through the id - ego - and superego?
Correlation coefficient
William James
Freud
Autoimmune Theory
22. Something used to make a behavior less likely to occur - can be positive or negative
Middle childhood
Punishment
Sweet - bitter - salty - sour
Sympathetic - parasympathetic - and enteric
23. Which thought process is a creative process?
Sterilization
Dura mater
Divergent thinking
3 & 4
24. The number which occurs the most often
Create and release chemicals into the blood
Mode
Operant Conditioning
Clinical psychologist
25. Observing someone's behavior and basing our own behavior on it
Increase
Invincibility fable
Modeling
Humanistic Theorists
26. Second stage in the Kubler-Ross's Stages of Dying: 'This is unfair. Why me?'
Amplitude
Young-old
Prenatal development
Anger (Emotion)
27. What is: when the mother consumes alcohol while her babies are in the womb?
Stage 3
Depth perception
Fetal alcohol syndrome
Cognitive theorist
28. Self-aware - recognized - defined
Self-concept
Cross Sectional Study
Gender
Outer ear
29. What is: the belief that you are the center of the universe and everything revolves around you - and the inability to see the world as someone else does and adapt to it.
Quantitative
Infant
Conservation
Egocentrism
30. Third development of language
Three percent
Hollow phrases
Regression
Preoperational stage (ages 3-6)
31. A communication style in which single words are used to communicate - typical of toddlers learning to speak - for example 'give' or 'mama'. The meaning is still understood even though complete sentences are not used
Holophrase syntax
Natural prepared childbirth
Full (46)
Frontal lobe
32. When does language development begin?
Psychiatrist
Six months
Cerebral cortex
More Knowledgeable Other (MKO)
33. What is: the representation in the mind of a set of perceptions - ideas - and actions - which go together
Schema
Socialization
Behaviorism
Creative
34. The most direct measure of syntax in middle childhood is what?
The brain stem
The meanlinkk of utterance (how long their sentences are)
Three
Mode
35. What is: a mix of gender identity - gender roles - and orientation; recognition of ourselves as sexual beings.
Sexual identity
Punishment
Constant
Stillbirth
36. What is the method to find the amount that one variable changes in relation to another?
Self-actualization - Esteem needs - Belonging and love - Safety - Physical needs
Correlational research
Genetic Mutation
The infant wants to be in proximity of the person who cares for them as a form of self-preservation. If a child feels that their caregiver is nearby and attentive - they feel confident to explore their surroundings. If not - they feel anxious and ove
37. The ethical component of the personality and provides the moral standards by which the ego operates
Zone of Proximal Development
Create and release chemicals into the blood
Correlation Research
Super Ego
38. What is: the theory focused on the individual's unconscious motivations?
Alzheimer's Disease
Free morpheme
It measures a child against their peers - in that moment
Psychoanalytical
39. The smallest unit of a word which has meaning - may be bound or free
Divergent thinking
Humanistic
Morphemes
Elaboration
40. What do doctors agree is the best way to feed babies?
Negative reinforcer
Cochlea
Breast-feeding
Parasympathetic
41. Stage in which whether you will be punished or not determines what is moral or not - also called the punishment and obiedience phase
23 pairs
The right hand - right eye - and speech
Stage 1
Gonads
42. What is caused by one extra chromosome in the number 21?
Create and release chemicals into the blood
Belonging and love
Infant
Down syndrome
43. What is: the ability to group objects together on the basis of common features?
Middle ear
The penis doesn't grow and breasts may develop.
Classification
3-7
44. What is: the fluid filled structure in the inner ear that looks like a snail?
Cochlea
Phonemes
Epinephrine and norepinephrine
Family situation - the world around you - lifespan - and maturity.
45. All other variables w/in an experiment that researchers do not have control over
Dependent variable
Half (23)
Closure
Women - men
46. Who created the first scientific psychology laboratory?
Conception
Wilhelm Wundt
The brain stem
Dependent variable
47. Who founded the Hierarchy of Needs theory?
Maslow
Auditory System
The Premack Principle
Autoimmune Theory
48. Which lobe is related to vision?
Occipital lobe
Divergent thinkers
Cones
6
49. Gilligan believed that ________ conflicted between self and other - while ________ conflicted between self and justice
As soon as the bell was rung
Norplant
Women - men
1) Gather info - 2) Generate hypothesis - 3) Test hypothesis - 4) Revise
50. What is: attraction to the opposite sex?
Longitudinal fissure
Adolescent Egocentrism
Heterosexual
Raymond Cattell