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DSST Lifespan Developmental Psychology

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1. Stage at which children are egocentric and will therefore think divorce is their fault






2. How does the pupil work?






3. Third step in Maslow's Hierarchy of needs in which you may want to meet needs of belongings and love through relationships






4. What is: expression of your maleness or femaleness on a daily basis?






5. Where are genes carried?






6. 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?






7. What section of the nervous system is responsible for the 'fight or flight' response?






8. According to both Kohlberg and Piaget - the most immature reason to do something is to:






9. When people are followed and studied over a long period of time and checked up on at certain points






10. The awareness of being a male or female






11. What is: not being involved in a sexual relationship?






12. When someone sees an incomplete form - they fill in the pieces and perceive it as it would be that way. What Gestalt principle is this an example of?






13. What is: a state of mental balance - reconciling new experiences with new understanding






14. What is: the method to prevent an egg and sperm from being able to access each other?






15. A type of conditioning in which a person associates an action with a consequence






16. How is IQ calculated?






17. What is the term for: a child's understanding that once you leave the room - you are not gone forever - etc.?






18. What are the three different areas of the Autonomic Nervous System?






19. Imitation of a past-observed behavior






20. What is the chance of having a boy or girl - according to Mendel's experiments in genetics?






21. What attention disorders also interfere with the learning process?






22. When do children develop object permanence?






23. What is: the ability to group objects together on the basis of common features?






24. Applied when a test measures something more than one facet






25. What is: the process of working something out in your head; shows the difference between young children (act and try things out) and older (can do things in their heads)






26. Which stage of development is: Ego Integrity vs. Despair? (what they have done with their life)






27. In the Harlow experiment: between the wire monkey+bottle - and cloth monkey+no bottle - which fake mother did the babies prefer?






28. Biological theories of aging: the number of cells that have problems or mutations that increase w/ age






29. Age at which most children will identify specific 'best-friends'






30. Why is autism rare in children for the first 2 1/2 years?

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31. A morpheme that can be a word on its own






32. Categories of old age: 65-74






33. What are areas in a baby's skull where cartilage hasn't yet hardened into bone?






34. Is there currently a cure for Alzheimer's disease?






35. What is the characteristic that: you may be more interested in a person - rather than what she is saying?






36. Which thought process is a creative process?






37. What is the variable that the experimenter controls?






38. Experiment when none of the doctors - researchers - and participants know who is getting the real drug






39. When a researcher observes and studies subjects w/o interacting or interfering w/ them






40. Who created the first scientific psychology laboratory?






41. When people w/in an experiment are assigned to a group randomly






42. What are the four characteristics of perception?






43. Who did the study between stimulus and response with dogs; and what did he discover?






44. What sends commands to all other parts of the body?






45. Stereotypes in genders; boys play with trucks and girls wear makeup - etc.






46. What is: relating new information to something familiar






47. Categories of old age: 85+






48. What is: the fluid filled structure in the inner ear that looks like a snail?






49. What glands affect the mood - energy level - and stress?






50. A link between a stimulus and a response in which a person or animal associates or substitutes a neutral stimulus with the actual stimulus







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