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DSST Lifespan Developmental Psychology
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1. In a case study - a single individual called a _____ is intensely studied
Subject
Biological
Mode
Habituation
2. Defense mechanism: transferring your thoughts and feelings onto others
Gender conservation
Content validity
Projection
Automatic - selective - contextual - and creative
3. 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?
Qualitative
Parietal lobe
Permissive
Nurture
4. What is the perception characteristic that: if you have heard a movie is scary - you might be more inclined to get scared?
Laboratory observation
Contextual
Sweet - bitter - salty - sour
Morality of Justice
5. Something used to make a behavior less likely to occur - can be positive or negative
Punishment
Around age two
Cross-modal perception
True
6. Putting disabled students w/ normal students
1) Gather info - 2) Generate hypothesis - 3) Test hypothesis - 4) Revise
Mainstreaming
Cochlea
Parallel play
7. A term used in research used to describe something measurable usually expressed as a number
Quantitative
Fluid intelligence
Preoperational stage (ages 3-6)
Classical conditioning
8. We smell when airborne molecules of an odor reach tiny receptor cells in the top of the nasal cavity; what is the name of this receptor area?
99%
Rh positive
Olfactory epithelium
Social health
9. Which lobe is related to hearing?
Stage 3
Temporal lobe
Phonemes
Informed consent
10. 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
Cephalocaudal and Proximodistal
Rite of Passage
Id
Wilhelm Wundt
11. 1 -2 -2 -2 -3 -3 -5 -8 -9 -9. What is the mode?
You need two - one from each parent - to conceive.
2
Biological; Behavioral; Cognitive; Humanistic; Psychoanalytical; Structuralism; Functionalism; Nature vs. Nurture
No correlation
12. A disorder where the bones are weakened and become porous - like a sponge
Osteoporosis
Physical needs
Closure
Six months
13. What thought process characterizes creative - gifted - or advanced children?
You need two - one from each parent - to conceive.
Divergent thinkers
Permissive
Mental age/Chronological age - x 100
14. States that infants need to form at least one strong attachment such as to a parent - in order to develop normally
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15. Children are most likely to achieve if parents:
Bisexual
Set high standards - assist along the way
Commissures
Homosexual
16. When can a person's short term memory become incapacitated?
Watching their parents
As they age
Sublimation
Sudden Infant Death Syndrome
17. What is the term for lack of responsiveness to other people?
Autism
Figurative language
Mental health
Hypothalamus
18. Who made the first IQ test?
Creative
Obstetrician-gynecologist
Alfred Binet
Behaviorism
19. The name most associated with operant conditioning is who?
Condom
Young Adult
Zygote
B.F. Skinner
20. What are the two different classifications of intelligence?
Laboratory observation
Reaction Formation
Negative reinforcer
Fluid intelligence and crystal intelligence
21. Gilligan believed that Kholberg's theory described the male progression which she called the what?
Morality of Justice
Up to 6 months of observation by doctors
Stage 6
Ferdinand Lamaze
22. Who first coined self-efficacy?
Chomsky
Condom
Bandura
Long labors or birth complications
23. Who created structuralism?
Phonemes
Wilhelm Wundt
The cerebrum
Fontanels
24. Who founded the Hierarchy of Needs theory?
Gonads
Maslow
Accommodation
Intestate
25. What is the term for identical twins?
Cones
Authoritarian
Monozygotic twins
Esteem needs
26. Fourth stage in the Kubler-Ross's Stages of Dying: 'There's nothing I can do about this'
Preparatory Depression
Morality of Justice
Cones
Subjects may be dishonest w/ their answers
27. What is the ability to identify correctly something encountered before?
Humanistic Theorists
Recognition
Self-actualization
Morality of Care
28. Second stage in the Kubler-Ross's Stages of Dying: 'This is unfair. Why me?'
Anger (Emotion)
Mentally retarded
Hospice
Gonads
29. What is: T-shaped device implanted in uterus by a physician for five to ten years at a time?
Informed consent
IUD
Kleinfelter Syndrome; male
Virginia Apgar - or Apgar Rating
30. Biological theories of aging: the number of cells that have problems or mutations that increase w/ age
3-7
Genetic Mutation
The more accurate the result
Autism
31. What is when the baby is born in a pool or bath with dim lights?
Spiritual health
Gentle birth
Osteoporosis
Id - Ego - Super Ego
32. What kind of childbirth did Dr. Grantly Dick Read start teaching?
Natural observation
Natural prepared childbirth
Allow the skull's plates of bone to shift or flex - making childbirth easier.
Qualitative
33. What is the term for low IQ and mental age of about 4 years old?
Mentally retarded
9-15
Bandura
Emotional neglect
34. Read pages 22-25 for charts: Piaget's Stages of Development and Freud's Psychosexual Stages
...
Autoimmune Theory
Placebo effect
Displacement
35. A morpheme that can be a word on its own
Free morpheme
Autonomic Nervous System
Gender
Rationalization
36. The awareness of being a male or female
Cerebral palsy
Gender identity
Authoritative
Longitudinal Study
37. Age at with children start feeling a fear of the dark - which can be strong and appear suddenly
1) Gather info - 2) Generate hypothesis - 3) Test hypothesis - 4) Revise
6
Physical needs
Self-concept
38. Imitation of a past-observed behavior
Stimulus generalization
Temporal lobe
Deferred imitation
School-age Child
39. If a mother catches rubella in first trimester - what is the chance that the fetus is affected?
90%
Operant Conditioning
Independent variable
Infertility
40. What is: an experienced practitioner who can attend pregnancies and deliveries?
Heterosexual
Gender identity
Response extinction
Midwife
41. Biological theories of aging: as our bodies age - our immune systems become less effective at fighting disease - stress - etc.
Genes
Autoimmune Theory
Preparatory Depression
Slowed growth - body/face malfunctions - nervous system disorders - mental retardation.
42. A child that bounces back from a difficult situation
Resilient child
Informed consent
Figurative language
Positive reinforcer
43. What does STDs stand for - including AIDS and herpes?
Correlational research
Young Adult
Emotional neglect
Sexually transmitted diseases
44. What is: the gland that controls release of hormones from the gonads?
Pituitary gland
Cerebral cortex
Sampling
Harry Harlow
45. Gifted children often hide gifts to ______.
Irritability - social responsiveness - and activity level
Esteem needs
Miscarriages or stillbirths
Fit in
46. What is: the way the brain organizes and gives meaning to information provided by the senses?
Perception
Stage
Osteoporosis
Operation
47. What is the least developed part of a newborn (growth is not complete)?
The brain/the cerebral cortex
Ferdinand Lamaze
Pons
Amplitude
48. In a study - the researchers have direct control over this variable
Abstinence
Constant
Independent variable
Humanistic
49. A reinforcer that is physical (tangible) or from the environment - like payment for work - or a prize
Fluid intelligence
Auditory System
Extrinsic reinforcer
Accommodation
50. Rang the bell each time he fed the dog; eventually how early did the dogs start salivating?
Sampling
Authoritative
As soon as the bell was rung
Stage