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DSST Lifespan Developmental Psychology
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1. Means that the participants must know the content of the experiment and be warned of any risk or harm
Free morpheme
Frontal lobe
Gilligan
Informed consent
2. What is: any pill designed to prevent pregnancy?
Egocentric behavior
Bandura
Papillae
Oral contraceptives
3. Contains the psychic content related to the primitive instincts of the body - notably sex and aggression - functioning entirely according to the pleasure-pain principle - seeking either immediate fulfillment or settling for a compromise fulfillment
Around age two
Syphillis and rubella
Dura mater
Id
4. Parenting styles: respects individually - but tries to instill social values
Authoritative
Alfred Binet
Rubella
Mental age/Chronological age - x 100
5. First stage in the Kubler-Ross's Stages of Dying: 'This could never happen to me. This must be a mistake'
Phonemes
Denial (Shock)
...
Olfactory epithelium
6. Stages of friendship: intimate
Appearance - pulse - grimace (reflex) - activity - and respiration
Old-old
9-15
Spermicides
7. What is the characteristic that: you fill in areas that we do not have complete information about?
Gradually through shaping
Vygotsky
Schema
Creative
8. The ethical component of the personality and provides the moral standards by which the ego operates
Super Ego
Habituation
Best friend
Denial (Shock)
9. The final stage of Maslow's Hierarchy of needs. A stage you may never actually meet.
The right hand - right eye - and speech
Self-actualization
Amplitude
Diaphragm
10. What is the name for the awareness of external and internal events?
Consciousness
Drugs - diseases (like HIV - rubella) - and pollutants (mercury - radiation - etc)
Socialization
Harry Harlow
11. Individual sounds w/ in a word
Phonemes
As soon as the bell was rung
Ivan Pavlov
The posterior (back) fontanel: within two months of birth. The anterior (front) fontanel: by the child's 2nd birthday.
12. 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
Reinforcer
The right hand - right eye - and speech
Peer group
Functionalism
13. What is: a person's attraction to other people?
Sexual orientation
Sterilization
Constant
Phonemes
14. What is: the number of full wavelengths that pass through a point in a given amount of time
Cephalocaudal and Proximodistal
Frequency
Informed consent
Regression
15. What purpose do fontanels have?
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16. Defense mechanism: Turning a feeling into the exact opposite feeling
5
Recall
Reaction Formation
Freud
17. What is the term for: a child's understanding that once you leave the room - you are not gone forever - etc.?
Object permanence
Cerebrospinal fluid
Biological; Behavioral; Cognitive; Humanistic; Psychoanalytical; Structuralism; Functionalism; Nature vs. Nurture
Depo-Provera
18. What controls breathing and heart rate?
Sympathetic - parasympathetic - and enteric
The right hand - right eye - and speech
Fetal death
Pons
19. What is the conception alternative where fertilization of the egg is done outside the body - and then transferred back into the body?
Corpus callosum
Cooing
Fontanels
In vitro fertilization
20. What is: your feelings and reactions
Retina
Operant conditioning
Semantics
Emotional health
21. What are: vibrations in the air that we receive through the ear to be processed?
Natural observation
Sound waves
Displacement
Three percent
22. Something used to make a behavior less likely to occur - can be positive or negative
Convergent thinking
Punishment
Psychological Tests
Teratogens
23. What is: the theory that all people are inherently good and motivated to achieve their full potential
Humanistic
Ivan Pavlov
Increase
Reaction Formation
24. What disorder causes a person to have difficulty concentration - be easily distracted - or constantly in motion?
ADHD
John Bowlby's Attachment Theory
Bisexual
Acceptance
25. Who argued that if psychology was a true science - then psychologists should only study what they could see and measure (behaviorist theory)?
Fetal death
John Watson
If the mom and child have different blood types - the mom's cells can attack the baby.
Pia mater
26. Biological theories of aging: the number of cells that have problems or mutations that increase w/ age
Semantics
Cognitive
Cut in half
Genetic Mutation
27. How does the pupil work?
Heterosexual
Preconventional Morality
Opens and closes to let the correct amount of light in
Reciprocal determinism
28. Why did studies used by Piaget and Freud lead to wrong conclusions?
Endocrine system
They were not scientifically performed
Full (46)
Critical period
29. What is: term used to describe a person's belief that they can perform a task successfully?
Gentle birth
Maslow
Celibacy
Self-efficacy
30. When people of different ages are studied at one particular time
Cross Sectional Study
B.F. Skinner
Crystallized intelligence
Six or seven months
31. Something pleasant used to make a behavior more likely
Positive reinforcer
Behaviorism
Androgynous
Sterilization
32. When does language development begin?
Six months
Invincibility fable
Neonate
Hurried-child
33. Which part of the ANS is the arousing part of the system?
Gender conservation
Ethics
Sympathetic nervous system
Sterilization
34. The integrator between the outer and inner worlds - as well as the id and the superego. Gives continuity and consistency to behavior by providing a personal point of reference - which relates to the events of the past and actions of the present and o
Ego
Cross Sectional Study
Esteem needs
Sudden Infant Death Syndrome
35. What is the middle number in a set of data called?
Median
Phenylketonuria (PKU)
Chomsky
Parallel play
36. What percentage of children are affected by hyperactivity?
Humanistic
Three percent
Elaboration
If the mom and child have different blood types - the mom's cells can attack the baby.
37. What is the part of the ear that includes the pinna and external auditory canal?
Cerebrospinal fluid
A will
Proximodistal
Outer ear
38. Once the disease strikes - an individual w/ Alzheimer's disease usually has their life expectancy is:
Cut in half
Pavlov; classical conditioning
Appearance - pulse - grimace (reflex) - activity - and respiration
Irritability - social responsiveness - and activity level
39. What is the enzyme deficiency that can cause mental retardation without treatment?
1) Gather info - 2) Generate hypothesis - 3) Test hypothesis - 4) Revise
Cognitive
Phenylketonuria (PKU)
Around age two
40. Used to show links between people - events - actions - behaviors - etc. while not determining the caus - rather is linked to statistics
The more accurate the result
Sweet - bitter - salty - sour
Correlation Research
Humanistic
41. Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs consists of which steps?
Self-actualization - Esteem needs - Belonging and love - Safety - Physical needs
Three percent
Fit in
Encoding the information - represnting the information - and retrieving information from memory.
42. A chronic condition that deteriorates the nerve fibers in the brain controlling memory - speech - and personality. Early symptoms including personality changes - lack of interest in activities - and change in sleep patterns.
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43. What is the factor that always stays the same?
Constant
Stage 5
Rods
Cerebrum
44. Children are most likely to achieve if parents:
Young Adult
Conservation
Set high standards - assist along the way
Stage 5
45. The larger the sample:
99%
Loudness
RU-486
The more accurate the result
46. What are the two parts responsible for bending light and focusing it in the back of the eye?
Biological; Behavioral; Cognitive; Humanistic; Psychoanalytical; Structuralism; Functionalism; Nature vs. Nurture
Hypothalamus
Ethics
Cornea and lens
47. What does the left half of the brain control?
Dialectical perspective
John Bowlby's Attachment Theory
The right hand - right eye - and speech
Ivan Pavlov
48. What is: a statistical measure of typical scores for categories of information?
The more accurate the result
Six or seven months
Developmental norm
Fit in
49. What is: the period of sexual maturation?
Socialization
Autism
Puberty
Teratology
50. When can a person's short term memory become incapacitated?
Suppression
As they age
Sympathetic - parasympathetic - and enteric
Mainstreaming