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DSST Lifespan Developmental Psychology
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1. We smell when airborne molecules of an odor reach tiny receptor cells in the top of the nasal cavity; what is the name of this receptor area?
The posterior (back) fontanel: within two months of birth. The anterior (front) fontanel: by the child's 2nd birthday.
Peer group
Harry Harlow
Olfactory epithelium
2. Defense mechanism: reverting to old behavior to avoid feelings
Regression
Stage 4
Gender roles
Automatic - selective - contextual - and creative
3. Experiment when none of the doctors - researchers - and participants know who is getting the real drug
3 & 4
Double blind
Contextual
Abortion
4. What is the part in the back of the eye that includes receptors called rods and cones?
Dyscalcula
Retina
Mental age/Chronological age - x 100
Convergent thinking
5. When does language development begin?
Six months
Informed consent
Sexually transmitted diseases
Operation
6. Gilligan believed that Kholberg's theory described the male progression which she called the what?
Morality of Justice
Sampling
Dialectical perspective
Fluid intelligence and crystal intelligence
7. What is the main difference between classical and operant conditioning?
Weak correlation
They can be coached into learning a type of test--do better or worse - etc.
Classical conditioning works more to explain reflexive or unconscious reactions - Operant conditioning works to explain elective actions and reactions
Sympathetic nervous system
8. Piaget believed that the individual actively constructs knowledge about the world--what is the term for this?
Preconventional Morality
Cognitive theorist
Young Adult
Opens and closes to let the correct amount of light in
9. What is: when a person or animal responds to a neutral stimulus with a meaningful one
Baby Albert
Nurture
Classical conditioning
Quantitative
10. What syndrome occurs when someone two X and one Y chromosome...and what gender does this make?
Stage 2
Kleinfelter Syndrome; male
Social learning theory
The cloth monkey
11. A way of obtaining information about a specific type of information in which questionnaires are given out to participants who are then asked to answer the questions to the best of their ability
Spermicides
Survey
Neonate
Cerebral palsy
12. What is: a permanent facility control done through surgical procedures?
On chromosomes
Sterilization
Teratology
Contextual
13. How much alcohol is the safe amount to consume during pregnancy?
Self-concept
Egocentric behavior
Six or seven months
None!!
14. What is: sheath of thin latex designed to catch sperm upon ejaculation?
Cooing
Nature
Intrinsic reinforcer
Condom
15. What is: your thoughts - beliefs - attitudes - and values
Iris
Rite of Passage
Mental health
Humanistic
16. What is the term for low IQ and mental age of about 4 years old?
Mentally retarded
Median
John Watson
Hurried-child
17. Which lobe is related to body sensations?
Cooing
Alternative - or artificial - insemination
Stage 5
Parietal lobe
18. What is the name for the awareness of external and internal events?
Middle childhood
Consciousness
Cooing
6
19. Cultural bias not generally known across all subcultures
Unoccupied behavior - onlooker - solitary independent (plays alone) - parallel play (plays around but not w/ others) - associative - cooperative play
Gradually through shaping
Id
Psychometrics
20. What is: a progesterone shot given every three months?
Appearance - pulse - grimace (reflex) - activity - and respiration
Depo-Provera
Social aspect of language
Dyscalcula
21. Once the disease strikes - an individual w/ Alzheimer's disease usually has their life expectancy is:
Assimilation
Cut in half
Sympathetic - parasympathetic - and enteric
Condom
22. Did a longitudinal study that showed that smart kids are happy adults
Lewis Terman
Endocrine system
Puberty
Free morpheme
23. What is the drug to cause an abortion in the first 9 weeks of pregnancy?
RU-486
Pia mater
Frontal lobe
Laboratory observation
24. Who introduced the scientific method?
Pia mater
Free morpheme
Francis Bacon--16th century
Schema
25. Sigmund Freud's analysis of human personality and subconscious drives features three main components including:
Assimilation
Classification
Id - Ego - Super Ego
Spiritual health
26. What is the conception alternative where semen is deposited into the body via a thin tube?
Francis Bacon--16th century
Gender role stereotypes
Alternative - or artificial - insemination
Gentle birth
27. Who did the experiment with baby monkeys about affection and love?
Self-actualization
Harry Harlow
It measures a child against their peers - in that moment
Avoid punishment
28. What attention disorders also interfere with the learning process?
Lewis Terman
Parietal lobe
Babbling
Attention Deficit Disorder and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
29. Stages of friendship: one way assistance
Projection
Excitement - plateau - orgasm - and resolution phases
4-9
50%
30. What is: the process of working something out in your head; shows the difference between young children (act and try things out) and older (can do things in their heads)
Operation
Negative Correlation
Informed consent
B.F. Skinner
31. What is another name for a newborn?
Neonate
Cellular Theory
Corpus callosum
Smell
32. Who created structuralism?
Olfactory epithelium
Sympathetic - parasympathetic - and enteric
Wilhelm Wundt
Anger (Emotion)
33. 1 -3 -4 -5 -7 -8 -10 what is the median?
A will
Drugs - diseases (like HIV - rubella) - and pollutants (mercury - radiation - etc)
Homosexual
5
34. Who developed the theory of social development?
Miscarriages or stillbirths
Vygotsky
Cross-modal perception
Cognitive theorist
35. What is the method of surgical delivery?
Strong correlation
Sympathetic nervous system
Cesarean birth
Condom
36. What is the method in which a variable and constant are use to test theories?
Experimental research
Family therapy
Sublimation
Telegraphic speech
37. What are areas in a baby's skull where cartilage hasn't yet hardened into bone?
Cerebrum
Fontanels
Stage 3
Echolalia
38. What is the most popular method for giving birth?
Medicated delivery
Genes
Suppression
10
39. Who first coined self-efficacy?
Emotional neglect
Experimental group and control group
Bandura
Pavlov; classical conditioning
40. In a study - the researchers have direct control over this variable
Independent variable
Half (23)
Self-report data
Adolescent
41. What is the ring of muscles that makes up the colored part of the eye?
The penis doesn't grow and breasts may develop.
3-7
Babbling
Iris
42. What is: the difference made to one's mind by the process of assimilation?
Regression
Accommodation
William James
The brain/the cerebral cortex
43. What is: the process by which a society identifies its expectations?
Socialization
Spermicides
Correlational research
Base of the skull; size of a pea
44. Putting disabled students w/ normal students
Emergency contraception
Stimulus generalization
Mainstreaming
Social health
45. Which stage of development is: Industry vs. Inferiority? (working with others)
Naturalistic observation
School-age Child
The right hand - right eye - and speech
Recognition
46. Which thought process is: a set of steps is followed to come to a correct answer; used in academic (math/science) settings?
Loudness
Parallel play
Longitudinal Study
Convergent thinking
47. Environment in which two (or more) children sit side by side - or near each other - and play without interacting with the other child or trying to influence them in any way. Most children engage in this type of enviornment.
Fluid intelligence
Old Age
Cross Sectional Study
Parallel play
48. What syndrome is characterized by small stature - poor coordination - hyperactive - learning disabilities - mental retardation - or large head?
Hour of love
Pons
Preconventional - conventional - postconventional
Fetal Alcohol Syndrome
49. What is the term for identical twins?
The brain
Carl Rogers
Binocular cues
Monozygotic twins
50. The name most associated with operant conditioning is who?
Constant
Middle ear
B.F. Skinner
90%
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