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DSST Lifespan Developmental Psychology

Subjects : dsst, psychology
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. A term used in research used to describe something measurable usually expressed as a number






2. What controls breathing and heart rate?






3. What is: the period of sexual maturation?






4. The name most associated with operant conditioning is who?






5. What is the term for the death of a child under one year - for no apparent reason?






6. What is: when adolescents truly believe themselves to be the center of the universe to those around them?






7. Which though process is follower thinking?






8. What does the left half of the brain control?






9. What is the most extreme outcome of a woman drinking during her pregnancy?






10. Gilligan believed that ________ conflicted between self and other - while ________ conflicted between self and justice






11. What is a disease also called German measles?






12. Which stage of development is: Intimacy vs. Isolation? (emotional ties with others)






13. Stages of friendship: autonomous - interdependent






14. What is the drug to cause an abortion in the first 9 weeks of pregnancy?






15. Third development of language






16. What is: generalizations about each gender - such as that men are aggressive and logical - and women are nurturing and emotional






17. There are usually two groups in an experiment - titled:






18. Defense mechanism: hiding the feelings and not acknowledging them






19. Observing someone's behavior and basing our own behavior on it






20. A test that gives information about a participant including standardized tests such as aptitude - interest - and personality tests






21. What is: a progesterone shot given every three months?






22. The negative effects of sensory deprivation (not as much attention) are more likely to _______ w/ the length of the stage.






23. A collection of data from all cases or people in the chosen set






24. What is: a period in a child's development in which he/she is capable of understanding some things but not others






25. Those who are mentally retarded are least likely to also have WHAT condition?






26. 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)






27. Which stage of development is: Industry vs. Inferiority? (working with others)






28. What is a common learning disability in reading?






29. What is: your thoughts - beliefs - attitudes - and values






30. The study of the aging process






31. Stages that a person goes through when they find out they have an incurable disease or find out they are going to die

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32. How do you fix the problem of mother's cells attacking the baby's?






33. What is the characteristic that: you fill in areas that we do not have complete information about?






34. What is the chance of having a boy or girl - according to Mendel's experiments in genetics?






35. Visible signs of aging include:

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36. First stage in the Kubler-Ross's Stages of Dying: 'This could never happen to me. This must be a mistake'






37. A type of research done inside of a lab - selected to monitor specific biological changes in individuals by using expensive and sophisticated machinery






38. What is: long lasting contraceptive where six capsules are injected in a woman's arm?






39. Rang the bell each time he fed the dog; eventually how early did the dogs start salivating?






40. What is the name for the bundles of axons - used to communicate between the two halves of brain?






41. What two things make up the central nervous system?






42. What houses memories and controls our responses to different sensory signals?






43. A morpheme that must be w/ a word






44. Level 3 of Kohlberg's Theory of Moral Development includes which stages






45. 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.






46. What is: your sense of being a man or woman as defined by society?






47. What percent of children in kindergarten are immunized?






48. What is: focusing attention on a small amount of information?






49. What is: psychological definition for having more equal personality characteristics between male&female?






50. What is: relating new information to something familiar