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DSST Lifespan Developmental Psychology
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1. What section of the nervous system is responsible for the 'fight or flight' response?
Autonomic Nervous System
Socialization
Conceive at younger ages
Extrinsic reinforcer
2. Stages of friendship: one way assistance
The Montessori Method
Amniocentesis
4-9
Miscarriages or stillbirths
3. What percent of children in kindergarten are immunized?
Olfactory sense
Phonemes
99%
Ethics
4. Stages of friendship: intimate
Absolute threshold
Stage 2
Babbling
9-15
5. How can parents avoid down syndrome in their children?
Conceive at younger ages
Skin appearance - 'age spots' - hair
School-age Child
Wilhelm Wundt
6. What is: your thoughts about what gives life purpose--the meaning of life - religion
Spiritual health
Recall
Stage 2
Family situation - the world around you - lifespan - and maturity.
7. Is there currently a cure for Alzheimer's disease?
Ferdinand Lamaze
Cross Sectional Study
No
Kibbutz
8. What is the name of the largest commissure?
Physical needs
Bisexual
Intrinsic reinforcer
Corpus callosum
9. Theory by Bandura; the interaction of a person's personality - the environment - and the behavior.
Reciprocal determinism
Figurative language
10-14 months
50%
10. What are the two parts responsible for bending light and focusing it in the back of the eye?
Conservation
Amniocentesis
RU-486
Cornea and lens
11. Removing something unpleasant from a situation - to make a behavior more likely
Classical conditioning works more to explain reflexive or unconscious reactions - Operant conditioning works to explain elective actions and reactions
Semantics
Negative reinforcer
Humanistic Theorists
12. Gilligan believed that Kholberg's theory described the male progression which she called the what?
Classical conditioning works more to explain reflexive or unconscious reactions - Operant conditioning works to explain elective actions and reactions
Sudden Infant Death Syndrome
Morality of Justice
Noise
13. What are the four layers that protect the brain?
Stage 1
The skull - dura mater membrane - arachnoid layer - and pia mater.
Norplant
Rods
14. What is the very critical period of the first 3 months in the womb?
Bisexual
Pupil
Prenatal development
Super Ego
15. Not physical abuse but when the child feels rejected or feels failure
Psychological maltreatment
Positive reinforcer
Brain and spinal cord
Lewis Terman
16. Anything which makes a behavior more likely to occur
Reinforcer
Creative
Gender conservation
Psychoanalytic theory
17. Who conducted a longitudinal study of smart kids - resulting that they become happy adults?
Zone of Proximal Development
Lewis Terman
Absolute threshold
Belonging and love
18. What is: relating new information to something familiar
Cerebral palsy
Elaboration
Cephalocaudal and Proximodistal
12+
19. What is: the ability to associate something from one area of knowledge - and use that to determine or imagine what it is like in other aspects?
Vestibular sense
Cross-modal perception
Five
Cerebrum
20. What determines physical traits and is inherited from one or both parents?
Gene
Through actions - doing what you believe is correct
Autonomic Nervous System
Young-old
21. What are the two different classifications of intelligence?
Quantitative
Biological
Fluid intelligence and crystal intelligence
Telegraphic speech
22. Infants develop a secure attachment when parents pay attention to and respond to a child's needs. What theory includes this statement?
Nature vs. nurture
Excitement - plateau - orgasm - and resolution phases
Psychoanalytic theory
Preschooler
23. Once the disease strikes - an individual w/ Alzheimer's disease usually has their life expectancy is:
Neonate
Cut in half
Increase
Kleinfelter Syndrome; male
24. What syndrome happens when a woman smokes while pregnant?
Epinephrine and norepinephrine
Fetal tobacco syndrome
Belonging and love
Frequency
25. What are the three things to monitor - to measure temperament in infants?
Regression
Irritability - social responsiveness - and activity level
Erogenous zones
Outer ear
26. What is the ring of muscles that makes up the colored part of the eye?
Iris
Extinction
Contextual
Stage 3
27. 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
Hurried-child
Dialectical perspective
Stage 3
Denial
28. What are the five areas of Apgar Rating - with scores of 0-2 in each?
Ego
Appearance - pulse - grimace (reflex) - activity - and respiration
Hypothalamus
Rubella
29. Level 1 of Kohlberg's Theory of Moral Development includes which stages
Physical needs
Zygote
1 & 2
Alfred Binet
30. How was the visual cliff study conducted?
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31. When can a person's short term memory become incapacitated?
As they age
Social learning theory
Operant conditioning
Vestibular sense
32. How does the pupil work?
William James
Opens and closes to let the correct amount of light in
Id - Ego - Super Ego
Kleinfelter Syndrome; male
33. What is the part of the ear that includes the oval window - cochlea - and organ of Corti?
William James
Placebo effect
Inner ear
Left hand - left eye - and simple comprehension
34. 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
Morphemes
Gradually through shaping
If the mom and child have different blood types - the mom's cells can attack the baby.
Survey
35. A reinforcer that is physical (tangible) or from the environment - like payment for work - or a prize
Family therapy
Extrinsic reinforcer
Classification
Hypokinetic diseases
36. Which thought process is: a set of steps is followed to come to a correct answer; used in academic (math/science) settings?
Fetal Alcohol Syndrome
Convergent thinking
Peer group
Figurative language
37. What is: a child (especially preschool age) doesn't take into consideration other people's needs--their perceptions are limited to their own point of view
Egocentric behavior
It measures a child against their peers - in that moment
Hippocampus
Selective
38. Stage in which whether you will be punished or not determines what is moral or not - also called the punishment and obiedience phase
Cross-modal perception
They were not scientifically performed
The posterior (back) fontanel: within two months of birth. The anterior (front) fontanel: by the child's 2nd birthday.
Stage 1
39. Age at with children start feeling a fear of the dark - which can be strong and appear suddenly
6
Appearance - pulse - grimace (reflex) - activity - and respiration
On chromosomes
Independent variable
40. Third development of language
Telegraphic speech
Stage 3
Hollow phrases
Longitudinal fissure
41. What is the term for: a child's understanding that once you leave the room - you are not gone forever - etc.?
Diaphragm
Cerebrospinal fluid
Object permanence
Spiritual health
42. When does language development begin?
Recall
Six months
Divergent thinking
B.F. Skinner
43. What is the study done to show that infants have depth perception?
A will
Rh positive
Visual cliff
Ivan Pavlov
44. What is the name for the bundles of axons - used to communicate between the two halves of brain?
Iris
6-12
Commissures
2
45. What is: growth from the head downward (head develops before rest of the body)?
Ferdinand Lamaze
Cephalocaudal
Assimilation
...
46. According to both Kohlberg and Piaget - the most immature reason to do something is to:
Gender
Avoid punishment
Classical conditioning
Psychoanalytic theory
47. Which lobe is related to body sensations?
Half (23)
Parietal lobe
Autoimmune Theory
Bound morpheme
48. Which stage of development is: Ego Integrity vs. Despair? (what they have done with their life)
Conceive at younger ages
Old Age
Autonomic Nervous System
Six or seven months
49. What is the scientific name for the sense of smell?
Olfactory sense
Vygotsky
Carl Rogers
Preconventional Morality
50. What side of the N/N debate means that a child will be born with whatever disposition - tastes - personality they were 'meant' to have; believe that there are bad seeds.
Chomsky
Nature
Operation
Sweet - bitter - salty - sour