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DSST Lifespan Developmental Psychology
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. 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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2. What are the four stages of sexual response?
Excitement - plateau - orgasm - and resolution phases
Cephalocaudal
Gene
Harry Harlow
3. Something pleasant used to make a behavior more likely
Abortion
Obstetrician-gynecologist
Positive reinforcer
No correlation
4. A person who uses ______ has a stated position - but also acknowledges that it may change over time.
Dialectical perspective
Family situation - the world around you - lifespan - and maturity.
Egocentrism
Fit in
5. Biological theories of aging: like everything else in the world - the human body wears out
Cornea and lens
Naturalistic observation
Wear-and-Tear Theory
Infants were placed on a solid - opaque surface - and the mothers were placed at the end of the table - where the opaque ended and glass begun. The infants didn't want to cross the glass because they could see the distance between themselves and the
6. What is the part of the ear that includes the pinna and external auditory canal?
Sigmund Freud
Outer ear
Independent variable
Self-actualization - Esteem needs - Belonging and love - Safety - Physical needs
7. A baby repeating what you just said
Echolalia
Experimental research
Critical period
Social development or social cognition
8. True or False: Kohlberg believed that you go through each step of moral development one @ a time and could not skip them.
Around age two
B.F. Skinner
Sexual identity
True
9. People who are working that experience discrimination because of their age - whether too young or too old are victims of what?
Obstetrician-gynecologist - family practitioner - or midwife
Operant conditioning
Autoerotic behavior
Ageism
10. In children babbling begins around age _____ - while in deaf infants babbling usually begins around several months later
Loudness
If the mom and child have different blood types - the mom's cells can attack the baby.
Six or seven months
The brain/the cerebral cortex
11. Cultural bias not generally known across all subcultures
Psychometrics
In vitro fertilization
Autoerotic behavior
5
12. What is: growth from the center (spine) outward - where vital organs form before the extremities?
Recall
Proximodistal
Wilhelm Wundt
Object permanence
13. The distortion of the results
Bias
Cones
12+
Cellular Theory
14. 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)
Adolescent Egocentrism
Operation
Left hand - left eye - and simple comprehension
Six or seven months
15. What is: irrelevant stimuli that compete for our attention (like traffic)
Noise
Conception
Kleinfelter Syndrome; male
Maslow
16. What side of the N/N debate means that all children are first good; believe it is the way they are brought up that affects personality and actions?
The brain stem
Acceptance
Nurture
Biological
17. Third stage in the Kubler-Ross's Stages of Dying: 'If you don't die I will do the following...'
3-7
Psychiatrist
On chromosomes
Bargaining
18. What is the term for lack of responsiveness to other people?
Classification
Autism
Genetic Mutation
Six or seven months
19. Who created the first scientific psychology laboratory?
6
Wilhelm Wundt
Socialization
Stage 6
20. What is another name for a newborn?
Hippocampus
Neonate
Middle-age Adult
Sudden Infant Death Syndrome
21. How do you fix the problem of mother's cells attacking the baby's?
Injections
William James
Parietal lobe
Abstinence
22. The negative effects of sensory deprivation (not as much attention) are more likely to _______ w/ the length of the stage.
Increase
Natural observation
Create and release chemicals into the blood
Injections
23. The final stage of Maslow's Hierarchy of needs. A stage you may never actually meet.
Independent variable
2
Convergent thinking
Self-actualization
24. Who made the first IQ test?
Projection
Alfred Binet
Weak correlation
Stimulus generalization
25. Putting disabled students w/ normal students
Clinical psychologist
Hypothalamus
Selective attention
Mainstreaming
26. What is: the theory based on biology; belief that behavior and personality are linked to genetics
Virginia Apgar - or Apgar Rating
Harry Harlow
Id - Ego - Super Ego
Biological
27. Defense mechanism: feelings are redirected to someone else
Rubella
Displacement
Three percent
Selera
28. Which stage of development is: Trust vs. Mistrust?
Neonate
Infant
The Montessori Method
Fetal death
29. Experiment when none of the doctors - researchers - and participants know who is getting the real drug
Ferdinand Lamaze
Double blind
Temporal lobe
Longitudinal fissure
30. Four steps of the scientific method include:
1) Gather info - 2) Generate hypothesis - 3) Test hypothesis - 4) Revise
Dependent variable
Smell
Fetal death
31. What is: term for how much someone values and respects themselves?
Self-esteem
Rh positive
Social development or social cognition
Diaphragm
32. What is: the way the brain organizes and gives meaning to information provided by the senses?
Around age two
Perception
Peer group
Reciprocal determinism
33. Which receptor is used for color vision?
Cones
Frequency
Emergency contraception
Mean
34. What are: drugs taken within three days to prevent pregnancy from instances such as no protection - or a broken condom?
Emergency contraception
Noise
Family practitioner
Five
35. What is: the type of thought related to numerical and intellectual puzzles--with both quick & creative responses?
Fluid intelligence
Genes
Biological; Behavioral; Cognitive; Humanistic; Psychoanalytical; Structuralism; Functionalism; Nature vs. Nurture
Physical needs
36. What is the term for low IQ and mental age of about 4 years old?
Half (23)
Gender roles
Mentally retarded
Figurative language
37. What percentage of children are affected by hyperactivity?
1 & 2
99%
Three percent
Virginia Apgar - or Apgar Rating
38. What is: the representation in the mind of a set of perceptions - ideas - and actions - which go together
Sudden Infant Death Syndrome
Schema
William James
4
39. Recent research supports that children learn from listening to their parents talk to them in 'baby talk'; which aspect of language is this?
Social aspect of language
Middle-old
Thalamus
Half (23)
40. Why does a gamete have a half set of chromosomes?
Medicated delivery
Erik Erikson
Lens
You need two - one from each parent - to conceive.
41. When do children develop object permanence?
Women - men
B.F. Skinner
John Watson
Around age two
42. What are the different types of caregivers for pregnancy?
B.F. Skinner
Cornea
Obstetrician-gynecologist - family practitioner - or midwife
Dyslexia
43. What is: the number of full wavelengths that pass through a point in a given amount of time
The Montessori Method
The cloth monkey
Frequency
...
44. What is: the theory centered on behavior; see person as blank slate upon which impressions of experiences can be recorded.
Naturalistic observation
Behavioral
Socialization
Negative reinforcer
45. The awareness of being a male or female
Wilhelm Wundt
Gender identity
Extinction
Six months
46. Deaf children will often be more proficient at communicating through _______ than do hearing infants - often being able to sign at ten months old
Wilhelm Wundt
Noise
Gestures
Occipital lobe
47. How much alcohol is the safe amount to consume during pregnancy?
Cerebral cortex
Conceive at younger ages
Selective
None!!
48. What fluid covers the brain - and is used to transport chemicals and regulate pressure?
Automatic
Nature
Cerebrospinal fluid
Correlation coefficient
49. In a child - can be expressed as 'nobody likes me'
Behaviorism
Childhood depression
Endocrine system
Left hand - left eye - and simple comprehension
50. A system which uses operant conditioning to make less probable actions more likely to occur by using more probable actions as reinforcers
Id - Ego - Super Ego
Laboratory observation
The Premack Principle
Self-concept