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DSST Lifespan Developmental Psychology
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Defense mechanism: reverting to old behavior to avoid feelings
Regression
Inner ear
Experimental group and control group
Cephalocaudal
2. What is the very critical period of the first 3 months in the womb?
Old Age
Intrinsic reinforcer
Prenatal development
Cognitive
3. What is: a person's attraction to other people?
Sexual orientation
Irritability - social responsiveness - and activity level
Contraception
Gender roles
4. People who are working that experience discrimination because of their age - whether too young or too old are victims of what?
Cerebral anoxia
Vestibular sense
Ageism
Mostly developed by the time of birth
5. What is: the theory centered on behavior; see person as blank slate upon which impressions of experiences can be recorded.
Behavioral
Bisexual
50%
Sudden Infant Death Syndrome
6. Infants develop a secure attachment when parents pay attention to and respond to a child's needs. What theory includes this statement?
Psychoanalytic theory
Semantics
Median
Stage 1
7. What fluid covers the brain - and is used to transport chemicals and regulate pressure?
Mental age/Chronological age - x 100
If the mom and child have different blood types - the mom's cells can attack the baby.
Cerebrospinal fluid
Timbre
8. First step in Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs such as food water and shelter
Gonads
Bisexual
Cerebrum
Physical needs
9. All senses report to the thalamus except for one--which?
Young-old
Random assignment
It measures a child against their peers - in that moment
Smell
10. Which part of the ANS is the calming part of the system?
Parasympathetic
Increase
Limbic system
William James
11. What is a learning disability in math - where concepts are learned one day and forgotten the next?
Gestalt psychology
Amplitude
Dyscalcula
Hypothalamus
12. What are the four areas of taste that taste-buds recognize?
Operant conditioning
Ethics
Sweet - bitter - salty - sour
Kubler-Ross's Stages of Dying
13. Did a longitudinal study that showed that smart kids are happy adults
Homosexual
Lewis Terman
Corpus callosum
Left hand - left eye - and simple comprehension
14. What are: the harmful substances to a developing fetus?
Cephalocaudal and Proximodistal
Independent variable
Constant
Teratogens
15. What is: the type of thought that has to do with factual information--trivia - vocabulary - science - history?
Injections
The more accurate the result
Crystallized intelligence
None!!
16. Biological theories of aging: the number of cells that have problems or mutations that increase w/ age
Obstetrician-gynecologist
Self-actualization
Gender conservation
Genetic Mutation
17. Where is the pituitary gland located - and how big is it?
Sound waves
Phenylketonuria (PKU)
Bargaining
Base of the skull; size of a pea
18. If a test measures what is meant to measure it is considered what?
Fetal tobacco syndrome
Up to 6 months of observation by doctors
Valid
Naturalistic observation
19. Teaches that when a certain action is performed - there are consequences--reinforces good behavior with extrinsic/intrinsic reinforcers
Cephalocaudal
Sympathetic nervous system
Intestate
Operant conditioning
20. Child's realization their sex will stay the same
Pituitary gland
Gender conservation
Accommodation
Qualitative
21. Whatmakes a person able to see objects are they are - in 3 dimensions?
Frontal lobe
Norplant
Depth perception
Dyscalcula
22. 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)
Operation
Sampling
Subjects may be dishonest w/ their answers
Infant
23. What is the opening of the iris - which looks black?
The Montessori Method
Pupil
Five
Operant Conditioning
24. Extension of 'actions speak louder than words' in behavior; follow others' examples despite their words.
Pituitary gland
Social learning theory
Sigmund Freud
Fluid intelligence and crystal intelligence
25. Which protective brain layer is mostly blood vessels?
Hollow phrases
Explicit role instruction
Pia mater
Nurture
26. Time at which most children begin to speak actual words
Denial
10-14 months
12+
Nature vs. nurture
27. A signal to society that certain rules have changed - this person is no longer a child
First trimester
Psychological Tests
Rite of Passage
John Watson
28. What are areas in a baby's skull where cartilage hasn't yet hardened into bone?
Fontanels
Rubella
Cross-modal perception
Hospice
29. What is the most extreme outcome of a woman drinking during her pregnancy?
Parallel play
Fetal death
Frontal lobe
Short attention span
30. What is: the tone color or perceptual quality of a sound?
Encoding the information - represnting the information - and retrieving information from memory.
Vestibular sense
Timbre
Correlational research
31. What is the part of the ear that includes the eardrum - anvil - and stirrup?
Breast-feeding
Stage
Middle ear
Divergent thinking
32. Theory by Bandura; the interaction of a person's personality - the environment - and the behavior.
Anger (Emotion)
Selective
Operant Conditioning
Reciprocal determinism
33. Experiment when none of the doctors - researchers - and participants know who is getting the real drug
The cerebrum
Displacement
Double blind
Autoimmune Theory
34. A morpheme that can be a word on its own
Maslow
Free morpheme
Cerebrospinal fluid
Humanistic
35. A higher number of the correlation coefficient closer to the number one shows a:
Wear-and-Tear Theory
Thalamus
Strong correlation
Limbic system
36. What is the name for the awareness of external and internal events?
Three
Consciousness
Equilibrium
Selera
37. Why isn't an IQ test a good indicator for children over long periods of time?
Emergency contraception
Positive reinforcer
They can be coached into learning a type of test--do better or worse - etc.
Divergent thinking
38. What is the drug to cause an abortion in the first 9 weeks of pregnancy?
RU-486
Biological; Behavioral; Cognitive; Humanistic; Psychoanalytical; Structuralism; Functionalism; Nature vs. Nurture
Biological
6-12
39. A way of obtaining information about a specific type of information in which questionnaires are given out to participants who are then asked to answer the questions to the best of their ability
Sexual orientation
ADHD
Zone of Proximal Development
Survey
40. What is: your thoughts about what gives life purpose--the meaning of life - religion
Thalamus
Spiritual health
Erogenous zones
Sampling
41. What is the enzyme deficiency that can cause mental retardation without treatment?
Wilhelm Wundt
Phenylketonuria (PKU)
Subject
Five
42. What is caused by one extra chromosome in the number 21?
Cellular Theory
Ethics
Abstinence
Down syndrome
43. When one variable increases while another variable decreases. We call this a what?
Lens
Negative Correlation
Gestures
Mainstreaming
44. The negative effects of sensory deprivation (not as much attention) are more likely to _______ w/ the length of the stage.
Valid
Increase
Stage 6
The more accurate the result
45. The best way to teach children values is?
Cephalocaudal
Through actions - doing what you believe is correct
If the mom and child have different blood types - the mom's cells can attack the baby.
Organ of corti
46. What is the term for low IQ and mental age of about 4 years old?
Raymond Cattell
Not fully developed; but can distinguish color - track movement - and bright objects.
Rubella
Mentally retarded
47. Believed each person had an idea of a 'perfect person' and tried to work towards being like that person as much as possible - believing that people needed to become 'fully functioning' individuals
Qualitative
Object permanence
Brain and spinal cord
Carl Rogers
48. What is: irrelevant stimuli that compete for our attention (like traffic)
Noise
Create and release chemicals into the blood
Biological; Behavioral; Cognitive; Humanistic; Psychoanalytical; Structuralism; Functionalism; Nature vs. Nurture
The right hand - right eye - and speech
49. Defense mechanism: transferring your thoughts and feelings onto others
Virginia Apgar - or Apgar Rating
Dizygotic twins
Projection
Social aspect of language
50. Categories of old age: 75-84
Absolute threshold
Middle-old
Three
Toxic shock syndrome