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DSST Lifespan Developmental Psychology
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1. What is: hatred and fear of homosexuals?
Homophobia
Preoperational stage (ages 3-6)
Gonads
Denial
2. What is another name for a newborn?
Neonate
5 & 6
Conceive at younger ages
Positive reinforcer
3. What is the name for minimum amount of something we can detect or sense?
Absolute threshold
Experimental group and control group
Naturalistic observation
Allow the skull's plates of bone to shift or flex - making childbirth easier.
4. If a mother catches rubella in first trimester - what is the chance that the fetus is affected?
Epinephrine and norepinephrine
90%
The cloth monkey
Long labors or birth complications
5. What are: drugs taken within three days to prevent pregnancy from instances such as no protection - or a broken condom?
Emergency contraception
Middle childhood
Sexually transmitted diseases
Dizygotic twins
6. What are the three different areas of the Autonomic Nervous System?
Abortion
Sympathetic - parasympathetic - and enteric
Middle-old
Bandura
7. Which stage of development is: Generativity vs. Stagnation? (giving to the next generation)
Longitudinal fissure
More Knowledgeable Other (MKO)
Psychiatrist
Middle-age Adult
8. A communication style in which single words are used to communicate - typical of toddlers learning to speak - for example 'give' or 'mama'. The meaning is still understood even though complete sentences are not used
Stage 1
Holophrase syntax
Bias
Preoperational stage (ages 3-6)
9. What is: your sense of being a man or woman as defined by society?
Echolalia
Gender
Classical conditioning
Stage
10. What is: the ability to group objects together on the basis of common features?
Classification
Carl Rogers
Down syndrome
Toddler
11. What is: dynamic blend of our experiences - heredity - environment - etc. which determines how we react to problems/issues?
Personality
1) Gather info - 2) Generate hypothesis - 3) Test hypothesis - 4) Revise
First trimester
Sexual orientation
12. Defense mechanism: reverting to old behavior to avoid feelings
Regression
Fluid intelligence
B.F. Skinner
Hour of love
13. What is the medical term for birth of a dead baby?
No
Stillbirth
Freud
Midwife
14. The final stage of Maslow's Hierarchy of needs. A stage you may never actually meet.
Sexual orientation
Semantics
Self-actualization
Wilhelm Wundt
15. What is the study done to show that infants have depth perception?
Visual cliff
Auditory System
Miscarriages or stillbirths
Loudness
16. Method that teaches children to realized their full potential.
Bargaining
The Montessori Method
Pavlov; classical conditioning
Excitement - plateau - orgasm - and resolution phases
17. First stage in the Kubler-Ross's Stages of Dying: 'This could never happen to me. This must be a mistake'
Olfactory sense
Denial (Shock)
Spiritual health
Young Adult
18. What is: the understanding of more advanced classification; that some sets are also sub-sets of a larger class?
Adolescent Egocentrism
Response extinction
Class inclusion
3
19. What is the middle number in a set of data called?
Mental age/Chronological age - x 100
Daydreaming
Median
Harry Harlow
20. 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
Survey
...
More Knowledgeable Other (MKO)
Binocular cues
21. What is: the most developed - and largest (80%) - part of the brain?
Cerebral cortex
Jean Piaget
Sigmund Freud
Nurture
22. What is the name for the two halves of the brain?
Olfactory sense
Corpus callosum
Reinforcer
Cerebrum
23. Usually has a doctoral degree in psychology plus an internship; cannot prescribe medicine.
Adolescent Egocentrism
Clinical psychologist
Cooing
Dizygotic twins
24. Why is self-report data not as reliable as other research methods?
Abortion
Infertility
Subjects may be dishonest w/ their answers
Raymond Cattell
25. What is the name of the scientist known as the father of genetics and inheritance?
Mendel
Family therapy
Timbre
Ferdinand Lamaze
26. What is: a permanent facility control done through surgical procedures?
Young Adult
Sterilization
Frontal lobe
Gender conservation
27. The ethical component of the personality and provides the moral standards by which the ego operates
Through actions - doing what you believe is correct
Response extinction
Super Ego
Stage 2
28. What is: your interactions with others in social situations
Fetal Alcohol Syndrome
Social health
Adrenal glands
Middle childhood
29. Stages of friendship: one way assistance
Positive reinforcer
4-9
Midwife
More Knowledgeable Other (MKO)
30. The integrator between the outer and inner worlds - as well as the id and the superego. Gives continuity and consistency to behavior by providing a personal point of reference - which relates to the events of the past and actions of the present and o
Ego
Short attention span
Pons
Self-actualization
31. What is: the debate between whether a child is born a bad seed--with whatever disposition/tastes/personality they were meant to have; or that a child is born good - with their upbringing affecting their later personality and actions.
Nature vs. nurture
6
Genetic Mutation
Family situation - the world around you - lifespan - and maturity.
32. What are the four lobes of the brain?
Rods
Occipital - temporal - frontal - and parietal.
Punishment
Cones
33. What is: relating new information to something familiar
Strong correlation
Elaboration
Middle childhood
Biological
34. Why are IQ scores only accurate for short periods of time?
Olfactory epithelium
Functionalism
Sexual identity
It measures a child against their peers - in that moment
35. What fluid covers the brain - and is used to transport chemicals and regulate pressure?
The meanlinkk of utterance (how long their sentences are)
Cerebrospinal fluid
Women - men
Organ of corti
36. When does language development begin?
Six months
Sexual orientation
Mental health
Explicit role instruction
37. True or False: Kohlberg believed that you go through each step of moral development one @ a time and could not skip them.
Deferred imitation
Natural prepared childbirth
True
The brain stem
38. Where is the pituitary gland located - and how big is it?
Base of the skull; size of a pea
Slowed growth - body/face malfunctions - nervous system disorders - mental retardation.
Put babies on their backs to sleep - and not have anything extra (toys - pillows etc) in the bed or crib.
Jean Piaget
39. What is the name of the largest commissure?
Corpus callosum
Correlation Research
10-14 months
Holophrase syntax
40. Gifted children often hide gifts to ______.
Gender identity
Stillbirth
Fit in
Belonging and love
41. Stage in which a person abides by the law because they think that law is a higher order; laws cannot be broken under any circumstance; social-order-maintaining orientation
Reciprocal determinism
10-14 months
Stage 4
Stage 5
42. What is a common learning disability in reading?
Dura mater
Raymond Cattell
Dyslexia
Contextual
43. What is being able to reproduce knowledge from memory?
Androgynous
Recall
Daydreaming
Rite of Passage
44. What is the scientific name for the sense of smell?
Correlation coefficient
Cerebrum
Olfactory sense
Bias
45. Once the disease strikes - an individual w/ Alzheimer's disease usually has their life expectancy is:
Modeling
Cut in half
Puberty
Conservation
46. Who proposed fluid/crystallized intelligence?
Freud
Raymond Cattell
Emotional health
Mode
47. Stage in which you see the right action as what satisfies your personal needs; a person becomes aware of two different viewpoints
You need two - one from each parent - to conceive.
Spermicides
Stage 2
Emotional health
48. Did a longitudinal study that showed that smart kids are happy adults
They were not scientifically performed
Lewis Terman
Dizygotic twins
Stillbirth
49. Babies are rewarded with food/attention with they say 'mama' etc - so they continue to say those words and learn new ones; what idea does this theory follow?
Mode
Virginia Apgar - or Apgar Rating
Operant conditioning
Cellular Theory
50. Who founded the Hierarchy of Needs theory?
Spiritual - emotional - mental - and social health
Increase
Maslow
Androgynous