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DSST Lifespan Developmental Psychology
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1. Which receptor is more sensitive to light - but is not used to view color?
Dialectical perspective
Sexual orientation
Id
Rods
2. Those who are mentally retarded are least likely to also have WHAT condition?
Longitudinal Study
Cerebral palsy
Hippocampus
Quantitative
3. A number between +1 and -1 that measures the strength between two variables
1 & 2
Homosexual
Correlation coefficient
Safety
4. What is: the theory that all people are inherently good and motivated to achieve their full potential
Humanistic
Lewis Terman
First trimester
Mostly developed by the time of birth
5. Pavlovs famous classical conditioning dog experiment.
Bell would ring - then feed the dogs - Dogs would salivate when given food - Over time dogs began to salivate simply at ring of bell
Six months
90%
Gender conservation
6. What attention disorders also interfere with the learning process?
Sweet - bitter - salty - sour
Operation
If the mom and child have different blood types - the mom's cells can attack the baby.
Attention Deficit Disorder and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
7. What is the middle number in a set of data called?
Papillae
Median
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
Mode
8. Failure to thrive is caused by:
Placebo effect
Emotional neglect
School-age Child
Self-actualization
9. What is the part in the back of the eye that includes receptors called rods and cones?
Occipital - temporal - frontal - and parietal.
Gilligan
Retina
Baby Albert
10. What does STDs stand for - including AIDS and herpes?
Sexually transmitted diseases
Parasympathetic
Habituation
Pavlov; classical conditioning
11. Where are genes carried?
Middle-age Adult
Alfred Binet
On chromosomes
Gentle birth
12. What most-extreme fate does syphillis often cause in infants?
Raymond Cattell
Medicated delivery
Miscarriages or stillbirths
Strong correlation
13. Whatmakes a person able to see objects are they are - in 3 dimensions?
Down syndrome
Baby Albert
Deferred imitation
Depth perception
14. Dying w/o a will
Id - Ego - Super Ego
Intestate
Stage 4
Convergent thinking
15. What is the part of the ear that includes the pinna and external auditory canal?
Convergent thinking
Outer ear
Babbling
Depo-Provera
16. What are the different types of caregivers for pregnancy?
Stimulus generalization
Obstetrician-gynecologist - family practitioner - or midwife
Sweet - bitter - salty - sour
Smell
17. What is: where the lens changes its curves to help the eye focus?
They can be coached into learning a type of test--do better or worse - etc.
Accommodation
Independent variable
Clinical psychologist
18. What section of the nervous system is responsible for the 'fight or flight' response?
Autonomic Nervous System
Longitudinal fissure
You need two - one from each parent - to conceive.
Assimilation
19. What is the clear membrane in front of the eye that protects it?
Three
Operant conditioning
Fluid intelligence and crystal intelligence
Cornea
20. What is the main difference between classical and operant conditioning?
Elaboration
Autoimmune Theory
Classical conditioning
Classical conditioning works more to explain reflexive or unconscious reactions - Operant conditioning works to explain elective actions and reactions
21. What is the opening of the iris - which looks black?
Gender role stereotypes
Norplant
Equilibrium
Pupil
22. A communication style in which single words are used to communicate - typical of toddlers learning to speak - for example 'give' or 'mama'. The meaning is still understood even though complete sentences are not used
Dura mater
Gestalt psychology
Emergency contraception
Holophrase syntax
23. A term used in research used to describe something measurable usually expressed as a number
Sound waves
Qualitative
Quantitative
Mostly developed by the time of birth
24. What is: the ear's interpretation of a sound's frequency
Biological; Behavioral; Cognitive; Humanistic; Psychoanalytical; Structuralism; Functionalism; Nature vs. Nurture
3 & 4
Pitch
True
25. When something from conditioning carries over to another related area; made baby Albert afraid of all furry animals - rather than just rats
Mental age/Chronological age - x 100
Infant
Stimulus generalization
Timbre
26. After how many cigarettes will the fetus definitely have problems--with a 50% greater risk of childhood cancer?
Id - Ego - Super Ego
Five
Kohlberg
Psychiatrist
27. A method of modifying behavior - by ignoring the behavior so you don't have the response
Critical period
Teratogens
Response extinction
Intestate
28. What is: focusing attention on a small amount of information?
Nature
Corpus callosum
Opens and closes to let the correct amount of light in
Selective attention
29. What is: growth from the center (spine) outward - where vital organs form before the extremities?
Gradually through shaping
Endocrine system
Proximodistal
Critical period
30. What is the name for the awareness of external and internal events?
Morality of Care
Cochlea
Consciousness
In vitro fertilization
31. The name most associated with operant conditioning is who?
B.F. Skinner
Stimulus generalization
Selera
Infant
32. What is being able to reproduce knowledge from memory?
Appearance - pulse - grimace (reflex) - activity - and respiration
Fontanels
Divergent thinking
Recall
33. What is the name for depth perception cues made with one eye?
Monocular cues
Kubler-Ross's Stages of Dying
Erogenous zones
Hurried-child
34. Parenting styles: makes few demands - hardly ever punishes
Permissive
Endocrine system
Natural prepared childbirth
Id
35. Which stage of development is: Trust vs. Mistrust?
...
Stage 6
Infant
Limbic system
36. Defense mechanism: you deny your feelings and come up with ways to justify your behavior
Erik Erikson
Rationalization
Oral contraceptives
Operant conditioning
37. What is a fertilized ovum or egg?
Gentle birth
Echolalia
Zygote
The skull - dura mater membrane - arachnoid layer - and pia mater.
38. What is the name for the two halves of the brain?
Jean Piaget
Behavioral
Cerebrum
Thalamus
39. When people are followed and studied over a long period of time and checked up on at certain points
The posterior (back) fontanel: within two months of birth. The anterior (front) fontanel: by the child's 2nd birthday.
The cerebrum
Longitudinal Study
Gestures
40. Gifted children often hide gifts to ______.
Bisexual
Fit in
Conservation
Cognitive
41. Who argued that if psychology was a true science - then psychologists should only study what they could see and measure (behaviorist theory)?
Loudness
John Watson
Mental age/Chronological age - x 100
RU-486
42. Parenting styles: respects individually - but tries to instill social values
Authoritative
Proximodistal
Authoritarian
Brain and spinal cord
43. What is: your feelings and reactions
Conception
Emotional health
Mendel
Self-concept
44. Rogers and Maslow are both:
Autonomic Nervous System
Dyscalcula
Obstetrician-gynecologist - family practitioner - or midwife
Humanistic Theorists
45. What are the factors that influence psychosocial health?
Habituation
Family situation - the world around you - lifespan - and maturity.
Stimulus generalization
Response extinction
46. What is: attraction to both sexes?
Bisexual
Wilhelm Wundt
Humanistic
Middle ear
47. The average of a data set
Harry Harlow
Dialectical perspective
Smell
Mean
48. How do you fix the problem of mother's cells attacking the baby's?
Intestate
Correlation coefficient
Punishment
Injections
49. The scientific study of words and sentences
Emergency contraception
Thalamus
Half (23)
Semantics
50. Who thought of the mind as a stream of consciousness--a flow of emotions - sensations and thoughts?
William James
Obstetrician-gynecologist - family practitioner - or midwife
Attention Deficit Disorder and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
Sexual identity