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DSST Lifespan Developmental Psychology

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1. What is the part of the ear that includes the pinna and external auditory canal?
Iris
Outer ear
Full (46)
Mode

2. What is: psychological definition for having more equal personality characteristics between male&female?
Stillbirth
Middle ear
Androgynous
Rationalization

3. What are the three parts of memory?
Encoding the information - represnting the information - and retrieving information from memory.
Spiritual health
50%
Double blind

4. What attention disorders also interfere with the learning process?
The meanlinkk of utterance (how long their sentences are)
Attention Deficit Disorder and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
Put babies on their backs to sleep - and not have anything extra (toys - pillows etc) in the bed or crib.
Pavlov; classical conditioning

5. Who first coined self-efficacy?
Bound morpheme
5 & 6
Attention Deficit Disorder and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
Bandura

6. What is: when the mother consumes alcohol while her babies are in the womb?
Through actions - doing what you believe is correct
The meanlinkk of utterance (how long their sentences are)
Independent variable
Fetal alcohol syndrome

7. Who did the experiment with baby monkeys about affection and love?
Harry Harlow
Auditory System
3
Ageism

8. What kind of childbirth did Dr. Grantly Dick Read start teaching?
Personality
William James
Natural prepared childbirth
Kohlberg

9. A child that bounces back from a difficult situation
Resilient child
Outer ear
Sexual identity
Short attention span

10. Which of these diseases can cause miscarriage - stillbirth - heart defects - deafness - and other problems?
Operant Conditioning
Rubella
1 in 14 -000
Sympathetic nervous system

11. How much is hearing developed in neonates?
Fetal tobacco syndrome
Positive Correlation
Mostly developed by the time of birth
Constant

12. What is the characteristic that: you may be more interested in a person - rather than what she is saying?
Selective
Kibbutz
3
Full (46)

13. 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?
Cross-modal perception
6-12
Stillbirth
Cones

14. The distortion of the results
Organ of corti
Bias
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
Recall

15. What is the main difference between classical and operant conditioning?
Classical conditioning works more to explain reflexive or unconscious reactions - Operant conditioning works to explain elective actions and reactions
Nurture
23 pairs
Social health

16. What is the most extreme outcome of a woman drinking during her pregnancy?
1 in 14 -000
Abstinence
Fetal death
ADHD

17. Extension of 'actions speak louder than words' in behavior; follow others' examples despite their words.
Abortion
Social learning theory
Operant conditioning
Amniocentesis

18. One's wishes for the distribution of one's property and possessions after death
Lewis Terman
A will
10-14 months
Absolute threshold

19. When people w/in an experiment are assigned to a group randomly
The brain/the cerebral cortex
Best friend
Random assignment
Avoid punishment

20. How many PAIRS of chromosomes do body cells have?
23 pairs
Extinction
Autonomic Nervous System
Sympathetic - parasympathetic - and enteric

21. How much are the eyes developed in newborns?
Selera
50%
Retina
Not fully developed; but can distinguish color - track movement - and bright objects.

22. Who created structuralism?
Wilhelm Wundt
90%
Recall
Classical conditioning

23. Which protective brain layer is mostly blood vessels?
Bound morpheme
Spermicides
Pia mater
Sweet - bitter - salty - sour

24. A term used to describe something similar in structure or organization
1 in 14 -000
Preconventional - conventional - postconventional
Base of the skull; size of a pea
Qualitative

25. What are the three things to monitor - to measure temperament in infants?
Irritability - social responsiveness - and activity level
Middle-age Adult
Five
Middle-old

26. What does the left half of the brain control?
The right hand - right eye - and speech
Set high standards - assist along the way
Nurture
Emotional neglect

27. First development of language; pre-speech
John Bowlby's Attachment Theory
Oral contraceptives
Random assignment
Cooing

28. Not physical abuse but when the child feels rejected or feels failure
Reinforcer
Iris
Gender roles
Psychological maltreatment

29. A child that is always in a hurry
Spermicides
Hurried-child
Socialization
Cochlea

30. The best way to teach children values is?
Erogenous zones
Egocentrism
Miscarriages or stillbirths
Through actions - doing what you believe is correct

31. John Bowlby felt that attachment held evolutionary purpose. Explain
In vitro fertilization
Sympathetic - parasympathetic - and enteric
The Montessori Method
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

32. What two other chemicals do the adrenal glands secrete?
Displacement
Olfactory epithelium
All drugs - including over the counter - aspirin - coffee
Epinephrine and norepinephrine

33. 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
Fetal death
Morality of Care
Carl Rogers
Miscarriages or stillbirths

34. What is: the bumps on top of the tongue that contain taste buds?
Gender role stereotypes
Crystallized intelligence
Papillae
Genes

35. Stage in which whether you will be punished or not determines what is moral or not - also called the punishment and obiedience phase
The brain/the cerebral cortex
Virginia Apgar - or Apgar Rating
Stage 1
Prenatal development

36. What is a learning disability in math - where concepts are learned one day and forgotten the next?
Short attention span
The more accurate the result
RU-486
Dyscalcula

37. What are the different types of caregivers for pregnancy?
First trimester
Hour of love
Outer ear
Obstetrician-gynecologist - family practitioner - or midwife

38. What is the name for depth perception cues made with one eye?
They can be coached into learning a type of test--do better or worse - etc.
Divergent thinking
Monocular cues
Fluid intelligence and crystal intelligence

39. What are: the harmful substances to a developing fetus?
Fetal alcohol syndrome
Family situation - the world around you - lifespan - and maturity.
Teratogens
Endocrine system

40. Who proposed fluid/crystallized intelligence?
Raymond Cattell
Fit in
Smell
Amniocentesis

41. The final stage of Maslow's Hierarchy of needs. A stage you may never actually meet.
Longitudinal Study
The brain/the cerebral cortex
Accommodation
Self-actualization

42. Rang the bell each time he fed the dog; eventually how early did the dogs start salivating?
As soon as the bell was rung
Sublimation
Stage 5
Crystallized intelligence

43. Stereotypes in genders; boys play with trucks and girls wear makeup - etc.
Explicit role instruction
Miscarriages or stillbirths
50%
Experimental group and control group

44. What is: growth from the head downward (head develops before rest of the body)?
Stage 1
Inner ear
Cephalocaudal
Social aspect of language

45. Rogers and Maslow are both:
Multiple caretakers
Humanistic Theorists
Parietal lobe
Morality of Care

46. What is the variable that the experimenter controls?
Independent variable
Dialectical perspective
Left hand - left eye - and simple comprehension
Women - men

47. After how many cigarettes will the fetus definitely have problems--with a 50% greater risk of childhood cancer?
Five
Obstetrician-gynecologist - family practitioner - or midwife
Adolescent
Because at birth cells aren't well connected (lacking in myelin - or nerve insulation)

48. What is: when a child can't be conceived via the usual method?
Cognitive theorist
Infertility
Closure
Natural observation

49. What is the approach that assumes people organize their perceptions by patterns?
Create and release chemicals into the blood
Echolalia
IUD
Gestalt psychology

50. What houses memories and controls our responses to different sensory signals?
The cerebrum
Ageism
Increase
Selective attention