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DSST Lifespan Developmental Psychology
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1. 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
As soon as the bell was rung
Assimilation
Stage 3
Stage 6
2. Stereotypes in genders; boys play with trucks and girls wear makeup - etc.
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
Explicit role instruction
Monocular cues
Drugs - diseases (like HIV - rubella) - and pollutants (mercury - radiation - etc)
3. Extension of 'actions speak louder than words' in behavior; follow others' examples despite their words.
Social learning theory
Epinephrine and norepinephrine
Thalamus
Pavlov; classical conditioning
4. What are: the principles and standards of behavior - including morals; right/wrong and having one's actions correlate with their beliefs
Inner ear
A will
Ethics
Cellular Theory
5. Who created functionalism?
Put babies on their backs to sleep - and not have anything extra (toys - pillows etc) in the bed or crib.
Emotional health
William James
Closure
6. What are: vibrations in the air that we receive through the ear to be processed?
Middle childhood
Pituitary gland
Sound waves
Francis Bacon--16th century
7. What 4 main problems do fetal alcohol syndrome cause?
Psychoanalytical
Jean Piaget
Slowed growth - body/face malfunctions - nervous system disorders - mental retardation.
Vestibular sense
8. What is: the ability to group objects together on the basis of common features?
Hurried-child
Sterilization
Autism
Classification
9. Why is self-report data not as reliable as other research methods?
Pituitary gland
Authoritative
Subjects may be dishonest w/ their answers
Osteoporosis
10. What is the characteristic that: you fill in areas that we do not have complete information about?
Stage 1
Creative
Genetic Mutation
Mainstreaming
11. What is: your sense of being a man or woman as defined by society?
Sweet - bitter - salty - sour
A will
Pia mater
Gender
12. How much is hearing developed in neonates?
Cross Sectional Study
Parallel play
Harry Harlow
Mostly developed by the time of birth
13. Whatmakes a person able to see objects are they are - in 3 dimensions?
Pons
Depth perception
Dyslexia
Mendel
14. Something pleasant used to make a behavior more likely
Experimental research
Self-actualization - Esteem needs - Belonging and love - Safety - Physical needs
Positive reinforcer
More Knowledgeable Other (MKO)
15. True or False: Kohlberg believed that you go through each step of moral development one @ a time and could not skip them.
Super Ego
Mean
True
Mentally retarded
16. If you are A positive blood - what is that in terms of Rh factor?
Zone of Proximal Development
3 & 4
Rh positive
Baby Albert
17. 1 + 5 + 6. What is the mean?
Kohlberg
Holophrase syntax
4
Gilligan
18. Children are most likely to achieve if parents:
Set high standards - assist along the way
Convergent thinking
Ivan Pavlov
Pituitary gland
19. What is the thought process that considers an idea or belief (thesis) and acknowledges the idea's opposite (antithesis)?
Dialectical perspective
Stage 1
Homophobia
Commissures
20. The best way to teach children values is?
Through actions - doing what you believe is correct
Stage
Raymond Cattell
Parasympathetic
21. Piaget believed that the individual actively constructs knowledge about the world--what is the term for this?
First trimester
Kibbutz
Cognitive theorist
Reinforcer
22. What is the name for the bundles of axons - used to communicate between the two halves of brain?
Hypothalamus
Commissures
More Knowledgeable Other (MKO)
Absolute threshold
23. When something from conditioning carries over to another related area; made baby Albert afraid of all furry animals - rather than just rats
Response extinction
Phonemes
Erik Erikson
Stimulus generalization
24. What is: the difference made to one's mind by the process of assimilation?
Behaviorism
Through actions - doing what you believe is correct
Cephalocaudal
Accommodation
25. What is a learning disability in math - where concepts are learned one day and forgotten the next?
On chromosomes
Dyscalcula
Id
Strong correlation
26. A morpheme that can be a word on its own
Zygote
Raymond Cattell
Free morpheme
Kleinfelter Syndrome; male
27. Cultural bias not generally known across all subcultures
Weak correlation
Gerontology
Psychometrics
Auditory System
28. Anything which makes a behavior more likely to occur
Reinforcer
Injections
Gene
Cornea and lens
29. Level 3 of Kohlberg's Theory of Moral Development includes which stages
5 & 6
None!!
Binocular cues
3 & 4
30. What is: the process by which a person takes material into their mind from the environment - which may mean changing sensory evidence to make it fit?
Three percent
Assimilation
Gonads
Phenylketonuria (PKU)
31. The process of unassociating the condition with the response
Six or seven months
Autoimmune Theory
Extinction
Temporal lobe
32. First stage in the Kubler-Ross's Stages of Dying: 'This could never happen to me. This must be a mistake'
Operant conditioning
Outer ear
Denial (Shock)
Cerebral anoxia
33. Stages of friendship: intimate
Random assignment
9-15
10
Homosexual
34. Parenting styles: respects individually - but tries to instill social values
Full (46)
Authoritative
Sympathetic - parasympathetic - and enteric
Pupil
35. What is the part in the back of the eye that includes receptors called rods and cones?
Irritability - social responsiveness - and activity level
Gender
Self-concept
Retina
36. Where a group of people live together and the children of all the people are raised by one or two people
Lens
Cellular Theory
Bisexual
Kibbutz
37. A child that is always in a hurry
3-7
Hurried-child
Increase
Absolute threshold
38. What is the chance of having a boy or girl - according to Mendel's experiments in genetics?
Authoritarian
Zygote
50%
Adolescent
39. What is: a state of mental balance - reconciling new experiences with new understanding
Equilibrium
Prenatal development
Short attention span
Sympathetic - parasympathetic - and enteric
40. Not physical abuse but when the child feels rejected or feels failure
Super Ego
Operant conditioning
Creative
Psychological maltreatment
41. What is the term for the death of a child under one year - for no apparent reason?
Gerontology
Sudden Infant Death Syndrome
Convergent thinking
Quantitative
42. 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?
Frontal lobe
Contextual
Nurture
Binocular cues
43. The larger the sample:
Morphemes
Operant conditioning
The more accurate the result
Placebo effect
44. Which lobe is related to hearing?
Temporal lobe
More Knowledgeable Other (MKO)
Left hand - left eye - and simple comprehension
Toddler
45. What is: growth from the head downward (head develops before rest of the body)?
Abstinence
Infertility
Morality of Care
Cephalocaudal
46. A term used in research used to describe something measurable usually expressed as a number
Quantitative
Infertility
The Montessori Method
Longitudinal Study
47. The average of a data set
Laboratory observation
The posterior (back) fontanel: within two months of birth. The anterior (front) fontanel: by the child's 2nd birthday.
Self-actualization - Esteem needs - Belonging and love - Safety - Physical needs
Mean
48. What is: an experienced practitioner who can attend pregnancies and deliveries?
Midwife
Social health
Mental health
The brain
49. Means that the participants must know the content of the experiment and be warned of any risk or harm
Informed consent
Pia mater
Quantitative
Gestalt psychology
50. What thought process is supported by the example that: infants are given an object to hold - and then can recognize by sight the object.
Humanistic Theorists
Binocular cues
Cross-modal perception
Sterilization