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DSST Lifespan Developmental Psychology

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1. Which thought process is: many ideas are brainstormed to explore many possible solutions; used in creative settings?






2. What is: T-shaped device implanted in uterus by a physician for five to ten years at a time?






3. What are the two parts responsible for bending light and focusing it in the back of the eye?






4. What is: attraction to the opposite sex?






5. What kind of childbirth did Dr. Grantly Dick Read start teaching?






6. A morpheme that must be w/ a word






7. Recent research supports that children learn from listening to their parents talk to them in 'baby talk'; which aspect of language is this?






8. What are the four lobes of the brain?






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






10. What is the medical means to terminate a pregnancy?






11. Which stage of development is: Ego Integrity vs. Despair? (what they have done with their life)






12. An environment where children live and attend school






13. What is: located in the limbic system - with primary function to store memories?






14. What is: attraction to both sexes?






15. How can parents avoid down syndrome in their children?






16. Who created structuralism?






17. What is the medical term for birth of a dead baby?






18. Stage at which children are egocentric and will therefore think divorce is their fault






19. Stage in which you do what is right in order to gain status or approval from other people or society; 'good boy-good girl' orientation






20. Stages of friendship: Momentary playmates






21. Dying w/o a will






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






23. Which stage of development is: Identity vs. Role Confusion? (who am I)






24. What regulates internal temperature - eating - sleeping - drinking - emotions - and sexual activity?






25. In a kibbutz - the real parents of children may see them for one hour a day - a time referred to as the __________.






26. Read pages 22-25 for charts: Piaget's Stages of Development and Freud's Psychosexual Stages






27. Did a longitudinal study that showed that smart kids are happy adults






28. Why are IQ scores only accurate for short periods of time?






29. Second element: The presence of someone who knows more in an area - like a parent - teacher - coach - etc.?






30. What are the three different types of teratogens?






31. Does a gamete (reproductive) cell have full or half set of chromosomes?






32. What is the thought process that considers an idea or belief (thesis) and acknowledges the idea's opposite (antithesis)?






33. First development of language; pre-speech






34. What side of the N/N debate means that a child will be born with whatever disposition - tastes - personality they were 'meant' to have; believe that there are bad seeds.






35. What is another term for the system of hearing?






36. What is caused by one extra chromosome in the number 21?






37. How many different theories of language development are there?






38. What kind of problem can it cause when a husband and wife have different blood types?

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39. What controls breathing and heart rate?






40. What is: where the lens changes its curves to help the eye focus?






41. 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






42. When do the two fontanels harden?

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43. What is the part of the ear that includes the pinna and external auditory canal?






44. Means that the participants must know the content of the experiment and be warned of any risk or harm






45. What is the main relay station for incoming sensory signals to the cerebral cortex - and outgoing motor signals from it?






46. What is: the moment an ovum/egg is fertilized by sperm?






47. What is the middle number in a set of data called?






48. A lower number of the correlation coefficient - closer to the number zero shows a:






49. Putting disabled students w/ normal students






50. What is: structures in the cerebral cortex related to memory and emotion?