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DSST Lifespan Developmental Psychology

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1. A set of cases of people randomly chosen from a large group to represent that large group
Gender conservation
Bisexual
Self-esteem
Sampling

2. What is the term for fraternal twins?
Norplant
Dizygotic twins
No
Physical needs

3. If you are A positive blood - what is that in terms of Rh factor?
Cerebral palsy
Naturalistic observation
On chromosomes
Rh positive

4. The most direct measure of syntax in middle childhood is what?
Miscarriages or stillbirths
Fit in
Gender
The meanlinkk of utterance (how long their sentences are)

5. The distortion of the results
Bias
John Watson
Recognition
Nature

6. What system is made up of the hypothalamus and other glands?
Cross-modal perception
Mendel
Jean Piaget
Endocrine system

7. What is the main symptom of hyperactivity?
Short attention span
Sympathetic - parasympathetic - and enteric
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
23 pairs

8. The process of unassociating the condition with the response
Cerebral palsy
Extinction
Independent variable
Lewis Terman

9. What two things make up the central nervous system?
Heterosexual
Structuralism
Mainstreaming
Brain and spinal cord

10. Who conducted a longitudinal study of smart kids - resulting that they become happy adults?
Cooing
90%
Gender
Lewis Terman

11. What is the term for low IQ and mental age of about 4 years old?
Fluid intelligence and crystal intelligence
Mentally retarded
Content validity
Positive reinforcer

12. What is the approach that assumes people organize their perceptions by patterns?
Encoding the information - represnting the information - and retrieving information from memory.
Gestalt psychology
Recognition
Timbre

13. Theory that every function in the child's cultural development appears twice: first between people - then inside the child.
Monozygotic twins
3
Social development or social cognition
The posterior (back) fontanel: within two months of birth. The anterior (front) fontanel: by the child's 2nd birthday.

14. An environment where children live and attend school
Extrinsic reinforcer
Automatic
Peer group
Correlation Research

15. A type of research done inside of a lab - selected to monitor specific biological changes in individuals by using expensive and sophisticated machinery
50%
Classical conditioning works more to explain reflexive or unconscious reactions - Operant conditioning works to explain elective actions and reactions
Cognitive theorist
Laboratory observation

16. Second step in Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs
Full (46)
Infertility
Avoid punishment
Safety

17. Applied when a test measures something more than one facet
Random assignment
Independent variable
Erik Erikson
Content validity

18. What is: the study of substances which are harmful to prenatal development?
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
Independent variable
Self-concept
Teratology

19. What are the 8 psychological approaches?
As soon as the bell was rung
Biological
Biological; Behavioral; Cognitive; Humanistic; Psychoanalytical; Structuralism; Functionalism; Nature vs. Nurture
Gender identity

20. What is the medical term for birth of a dead baby?
Social health
Crystallized intelligence
Correlation coefficient
Stillbirth

21. Why are IQ scores only accurate for short periods of time?
Young-old
Invincibility fable
No correlation
It measures a child against their peers - in that moment

22. Stage at which children are egocentric and will therefore think divorce is their fault
Preoperational stage (ages 3-6)
Id
Retina
Six months

23. Biological theories of aging: the number of cells that have problems or mutations that increase w/ age
Humanistic Theorists
Longitudinal Study
90%
Genetic Mutation

24. In the Harlow experiment: between the wire monkey+bottle - and cloth monkey+no bottle - which fake mother did the babies prefer?
Resilient child
Sexual orientation
Figurative language
The cloth monkey

25. What are the two different classifications of intelligence?
Six or seven months
1) Gather info - 2) Generate hypothesis - 3) Test hypothesis - 4) Revise
Bell would ring - then feed the dogs - Dogs would salivate when given food - Over time dogs began to salivate simply at ring of bell
Fluid intelligence and crystal intelligence

26. What are areas in a baby's skull where cartilage hasn't yet hardened into bone?
Fontanels
Chomsky
Miscarriages or stillbirths
Explicit role instruction

27. What is the method of surgical delivery?
Set high standards - assist along the way
Authoritarian
Cesarean birth
Alternative - or artificial - insemination

28. Jean Piaget extensively used which research method to study children?
Natural observation
Qualitative
Oral contraceptives
Assimilation

29. What is the drug to cause an abortion in the first 9 weeks of pregnancy?
Conservation
RU-486
Cerebral cortex
Reciprocal determinism

30. What is: a statistical measure of typical scores for categories of information?
Developmental norm
Extrinsic reinforcer
Qualitative
6-12

31. Which stage of development is: Trust vs. Mistrust?
Infant
Olfactory epithelium
Left hand - left eye - and simple comprehension
Informed consent

32. Which part of the ANS is the calming part of the system?
Parasympathetic
Limbic system
The posterior (back) fontanel: within two months of birth. The anterior (front) fontanel: by the child's 2nd birthday.
Mendel

33. 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)
Semantics
Noise
Fluid intelligence
Critical period

34. What is when the baby is born in a pool or bath with dim lights?
Gentle birth
Positive reinforcer
Heterosexual
Half (23)

35. What is: areas of the body which - when touched - lead to sexual arousal?
Erogenous zones
Heterosexual
Holophrase syntax
Pavlov; classical conditioning

36. Method that teaches children to realized their full potential.
The Montessori Method
Fetal Alcohol Syndrome
Autoerotic behavior
4-9

37. Something pleasant used to make a behavior more likely
Celibacy
Positive reinforcer
...
Alzheimer's Disease

38. Defense mechanism: reverting to old behavior to avoid feelings
Mean
Teratology
Sexually transmitted diseases
Regression

39. What is the perception characteristic that: if you have heard a movie is scary - you might be more inclined to get scared?
Cerebellum
Fetal Alcohol Syndrome
Contextual
Gonads

40. What is the part of the ear that includes the oval window - cochlea - and organ of Corti?
Inner ear
Reinforcer
Cones
Fit in

41. 1 -3 -4 -5 -7 -8 -10 what is the median?
Inner ear
Around age two
Convergent thinking
5

42. Which lobe is related to body sensations?
Parietal lobe
Up to 6 months of observation by doctors
Gentle birth
Cross-modal perception

43. Who argued that if psychology was a true science - then psychologists should only study what they could see and measure (behaviorist theory)?
Id
Timbre
A will
John Watson

44. Which stage of development is: Initiative vs. Guilt? (trying different roles)
Preschooler
Adrenal glands
Id
Sympathetic nervous system

45. Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs consists of which steps?
Self-actualization - Esteem needs - Belonging and love - Safety - Physical needs
Physical needs
Cellular Theory
Preconventional - conventional - postconventional

46. What is another name for a newborn?
Classical conditioning works more to explain reflexive or unconscious reactions - Operant conditioning works to explain elective actions and reactions
Self-concept
Neonate
6-12

47. Who believed that the unconscious motivates our actions - through the id - ego - and superego?
Harry Harlow
Base of the skull; size of a pea
Freud
Divergent thinking

48. What purpose do fontanels have?

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49. Why isn't an IQ test a good indicator for children over long periods of time?
Diaphragm
They can be coached into learning a type of test--do better or worse - etc.
Kubler-Ross's Stages of Dying
Classical conditioning

50. Sigmund Freud's analysis of human personality and subconscious drives features three main components including:
Independent variable
Gentle birth
Sterilization
Id - Ego - Super Ego