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DSST Lifespan Developmental Psychology
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. In the Harlow experiment: between the wire monkey+bottle - and cloth monkey+no bottle - which fake mother did the babies prefer?
Androgynous
The cloth monkey
Brain and spinal cord
Family practitioner
2. What is: the elated feeling adolescents have - that they are immune to risks - mortality and probability; false sense of security thinking they will never fall or get caught.
Sterilization
You need two - one from each parent - to conceive.
Natural prepared childbirth
Invincibility fable
3. What is: your interactions with others in social situations
Autoerotic behavior
Social health
Pituitary gland
Jean Piaget
4. Who created structuralism?
Gonads
Independent variable
A census
Wilhelm Wundt
5. What is: an experienced practitioner who can attend pregnancies and deliveries?
Best friend
Midwife
Deferred imitation
Harry Harlow
6. The name most associated with operant conditioning is who?
B.F. Skinner
Figurative language
5
Denial (Shock)
7. What thought process is supported by the example that: infants are given an object to hold - and then can recognize by sight the object.
Spiritual health
Nature
Psychiatrist
Cross-modal perception
8. The best way to teach children values is?
Sound waves
Social health
Through actions - doing what you believe is correct
Cerebral anoxia
9. What is: the theory based on biology; belief that behavior and personality are linked to genetics
William James
Self-report data
Free morpheme
Biological
10. What is the drug to cause an abortion in the first 9 weeks of pregnancy?
Francis Bacon--16th century
Abstinence
10-14 months
RU-486
11. What is the term to describe the thinking part of health?
Mental health
You need two - one from each parent - to conceive.
4
Mode
12. Gifted children often hide gifts to ______.
Cut in half
Class inclusion
Fit in
Self-actualization
13. What is the term for lack of responsiveness to other people?
Crystallized intelligence
Autism
Naturalistic observation
Retina
14. Which lobe is related to hearing?
Spiritual health
Temporal lobe
Deferred imitation
Preparatory Depression
15. What is: the process by which a society identifies its expectations?
Socialization
Francis Bacon--16th century
Gender identity
Loudness
16. What is: attraction to the same sex?
Belonging and love
Noise
Deferred imitation
Homosexual
17. Third stage in the Kubler-Ross's Stages of Dying: 'If you don't die I will do the following...'
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
Fit in
Self-esteem
Bargaining
18. What is: the number of full wavelengths that pass through a point in a given amount of time
Bound morpheme
Frequency
Id
Median
19. In children babbling begins around age _____ - while in deaf infants babbling usually begins around several months later
Authoritative
Psychoanalytical
Infertility
Six or seven months
20. A number between +1 and -1 that measures the strength between two variables
Homosexual
Correlation coefficient
Short attention span
School-age Child
21. What is caused by one extra chromosome in the number 21?
Down syndrome
Cornea
Id - Ego - Super Ego
Mostly developed by the time of birth
22. What is: where the lens changes its curves to help the eye focus?
50%
Accommodation
Young Adult
Depo-Provera
23. Which stage of development is: Autonomy vs. Shame and Doubt (making their own decisions)
Deferred imitation
Harry Harlow
Midwife
Toddler
24. Theory that language abilities devlop innately; there must be some mechanism in the brain which aids in language acquisition; who came up with this theory?
Sterilization
Independent variable
Operant conditioning
Chomsky
25. What is: the way the brain organizes and gives meaning to information provided by the senses?
Telegraphic speech
Stage
Set high standards - assist along the way
Perception
26. Which thought process is: many ideas are brainstormed to explore many possible solutions; used in creative settings?
Obstetrician-gynecologist - family practitioner - or midwife
Kibbutz
Proximodistal
Divergent thinking
27. What is a common learning disability in reading?
Reinforcer
Dyslexia
Behaviorism
10
28. By the time they reach middle childhood - most girls will identify with one and only one _______.
Cognitive theorist
Conceive at younger ages
Mode
Best friend
29. Imitation of a past-observed behavior
Deferred imitation
Smell
Contextual
Constant
30. What purpose do fontanels have?
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31. Anything which makes a behavior more likely to occur
Explicit role instruction
Reinforcer
Spermicides
Breast-feeding
32. Applied when a test measures something more than one facet
Rh positive
Smell
50%
Content validity
33. What part of the central nervous system controls all necessary functions of the body?
Constant
The brain
If the mom and child have different blood types - the mom's cells can attack the baby.
Fetal alcohol syndrome
34. Time at which most children begin to speak actual words
10-14 months
It measures a child against their peers - in that moment
Divergent thinkers
Intrinsic reinforcer
35. Removing something unpleasant from a situation - to make a behavior more likely
Erogenous zones
Negative reinforcer
Nurture
Dependent variable
36. What is being able to reproduce knowledge from memory?
School-age Child
Parietal lobe
Strong correlation
Recall
37. Stages of friendship: two way - fair weathered
John Bowlby's Attachment Theory
6-12
All drugs - including over the counter - aspirin - coffee
Clinical psychologist
38. The average of a data set
Super Ego
Free morpheme
...
Mean
39. Children that are raised on the Kibbutz will often:
Have more bland personalities and often difficult for them to create and maintain intimate relationships as they have a lack of emotional depth
Classical conditioning works more to explain reflexive or unconscious reactions - Operant conditioning works to explain elective actions and reactions
Double blind
Morphemes
40. What is the approach that assumes people organize their perceptions by patterns?
Convergent thinking
Spiritual health
Gestalt psychology
Echolalia
41. Experiment where researchers made a baby afraid of rats through classical conditioning
Norplant
Baby Albert
Outer ear
Self-actualization
42. Who created the first scientific psychology laboratory?
Divergent thinkers
Gerontology
Epinephrine and norepinephrine
Wilhelm Wundt
43. A signal to society that certain rules have changed - this person is no longer a child
Naturalistic observation
Rite of Passage
9-15
Classical conditioning
44. What is the enzyme deficiency that can cause mental retardation without treatment?
Phenylketonuria (PKU)
Toxic shock syndrome
Prenatal development
Half (23)
45. What is: hatred and fear of homosexuals?
Half (23)
Sublimation
Gentle birth
Homophobia
46. When a participant fills out a survey themselves about themselves
Gender role stereotypes
Self-report data
Egocentrism
Extrinsic reinforcer
47. Where are genes carried?
On chromosomes
Slowed growth - body/face malfunctions - nervous system disorders - mental retardation.
Stage 4
Double blind
48. Stage at which children are egocentric and will therefore think divorce is their fault
Content validity
Preoperational stage (ages 3-6)
Operant Conditioning
Fontanels
49. What is the term for oxygen deficiency to the brain?
Cerebrum
Self-concept
Cerebral anoxia
Selera
50. What most-extreme fate does syphillis often cause in infants?
Miscarriages or stillbirths
The posterior (back) fontanel: within two months of birth. The anterior (front) fontanel: by the child's 2nd birthday.
Cerebral cortex
Cones