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DSST Lifespan Developmental Psychology
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1. What sends commands to all other parts of the body?
The brain stem
Peer group
Safety
Freud
2. If a test measures what is meant to measure it is considered what?
Valid
3-7
Kleinfelter Syndrome; male
Sympathetic nervous system
3. A higher number of the correlation coefficient closer to the number one shows a:
Strong correlation
First trimester
Phonemes
Stage 5
4. The ethical component of the personality and provides the moral standards by which the ego operates
Super Ego
Alzheimer's Disease
Divergent thinking
Opens and closes to let the correct amount of light in
5. What is the middle number in a set of data called?
Set high standards - assist along the way
Median
Double blind
B.F. Skinner
6. What kind of childbirth did Dr. Grantly Dick Read start teaching?
Qualitative
Wear-and-Tear Theory
Natural prepared childbirth
Double blind
7. What is the name for depth perception cues made with both eyes?
Binocular cues
Consciousness
Short attention span
A will
8. What is: the tone color or perceptual quality of a sound?
Chomsky
Timbre
As they age
Morality of Care
9. What is: sheath of thin latex designed to catch sperm upon ejaculation?
Modeling
Rite of Passage
Fluid intelligence and crystal intelligence
Condom
10. Stages of friendship: two way - fair weathered
Quantitative
Constant
The meanlinkk of utterance (how long their sentences are)
6-12
11. What side of the N/N debate means that all children are first good; believe it is the way they are brought up that affects personality and actions?
Fontanels
Gender role stereotypes
Nurture
Toxic shock syndrome
12. What is: long lasting contraceptive where six capsules are injected in a woman's arm?
Osteoporosis
Cognitive
Daydreaming
Norplant
13. What are the four stages of sexual response?
Response extinction
Explicit role instruction
A census
Excitement - plateau - orgasm - and resolution phases
14. Who created functionalism?
Longitudinal fissure
Dyscalcula
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
William James
15. Categories of old age: 85+
In vitro fertilization
Encoding the information - represnting the information - and retrieving information from memory.
Cephalocaudal and Proximodistal
Old-old
16. What do doctors agree is the best way to feed babies?
Spermicides
Mode
You need two - one from each parent - to conceive.
Breast-feeding
17. What is: the part of the ear inside the cochlea; contains sensors that change energy into impulses to be decoded by the brain?
As soon as the bell was rung
Organ of corti
Pituitary gland
Psychoanalytical
18. There are usually two groups in an experiment - titled:
RU-486
Family practitioner
Double blind
Experimental group and control group
19. What is: growth from the head downward (head develops before rest of the body)?
Infant
Nature vs. nurture
Cephalocaudal
Condom
20. By the time they reach middle childhood - most girls will identify with one and only one _______.
You need two - one from each parent - to conceive.
Best friend
Class inclusion
Because at birth cells aren't well connected (lacking in myelin - or nerve insulation)
21. Stages of friendship: intimate
Lens
A census
9-15
Dyscalcula
22. Dying w/o a will
Chomsky
Explicit role instruction
Intestate
Bargaining
23. The variable in which the researcher has direct control over
Classical conditioning works more to explain reflexive or unconscious reactions - Operant conditioning works to explain elective actions and reactions
Independent variable
Reaction Formation
Behavioral
24. Who taught women breathing procedures to get through childbirth - including panting?
Cerebellum
Fetal alcohol syndrome
Ferdinand Lamaze
Frequency
25. What is: when a sample is taken from the fluid in the amniotic sac - to be tested for diseases or genetic traits?
Base of the skull; size of a pea
Amniocentesis
Cerebral palsy
Survey
26. Defense mechanism: Turning a feeling into the exact opposite feeling
IUD
B.F. Skinner
Selective attention
Reaction Formation
27. When people w/in an experiment are assigned to a group randomly
Random assignment
Hypothalamus
Prenatal development
Closure
28. All senses report to the thalamus except for one--which?
Smell
Cellular Theory
Positive Correlation
Random assignment
29. When a researcher observes and studies subjects w/o interacting or interfering w/ them
Naturalistic observation
Fetal death
Reinforcer
Depo-Provera
30. Why did studies used by Piaget and Freud lead to wrong conclusions?
Teratology
Through actions - doing what you believe is correct
Hollow phrases
They were not scientifically performed
31. What does STDs stand for - including AIDS and herpes?
Gestalt psychology
Left hand - left eye - and simple comprehension
Epinephrine and norepinephrine
Sexually transmitted diseases
32. What are the two directions of growth in the embryo?
Cephalocaudal and Proximodistal
Sympathetic - parasympathetic - and enteric
Self-concept
Morality of Care
33. Stage in which you see the right action as what satisfies your personal needs; a person becomes aware of two different viewpoints
Extrinsic reinforcer
Stage 2
Adolescent
Multiple caretakers
34. What is: a statistical measure of typical scores for categories of information?
Preschooler
Full (46)
Developmental norm
Kubler-Ross's Stages of Dying
35. What controls breathing and heart rate?
Maslow
Self-actualization - Esteem needs - Belonging and love - Safety - Physical needs
Daydreaming
Pons
36. Third development of language
Mean
Hollow phrases
Pitch
Gilligan
37. Children are most likely to achieve if parents:
Mainstreaming
Base of the skull; size of a pea
Alfred Binet
Set high standards - assist along the way
38. Level 1 of Kohlberg's Theory of Moral Development
Morality of Justice
4-9
Operant Conditioning
Preconventional Morality
39. Observing someone's behavior and basing our own behavior on it
Stage 1
Psychometrics
Deferred imitation
Modeling
40. Who first coined self-efficacy?
Sublimation
Teratogens
Baby Albert
Bandura
41. Which lobe is related to vision?
Occipital lobe
Fit in
Allow the skull's plates of bone to shift or flex - making childbirth easier.
6-12
42. Which stage of development is: Autonomy vs. Shame and Doubt (making their own decisions)
Morality of Justice
Toddler
Pavlov; classical conditioning
Cones
43. What is: when a person or animal responds to a neutral stimulus with a meaningful one
Brain and spinal cord
Classical conditioning
Medicated delivery
Temporal lobe
44. What is: your sense of being a man or woman as defined by society?
Francis Bacon--16th century
Gender
Mean
Inner ear
45. States that infants need to form at least one strong attachment such as to a parent - in order to develop normally
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46. Where nursing care is given meant to maximize the quality of life for someone who is dying
Sound waves
Hospice
Amplitude
Contraception
47. What is: the most developed - and largest (80%) - part of the brain?
Classical conditioning
Cerebral cortex
As soon as the bell was rung
Vygotsky
48. Environment in which two (or more) children sit side by side - or near each other - and play without interacting with the other child or trying to influence them in any way. Most children engage in this type of enviornment.
Parallel play
Puberty
Cerebral palsy
Nature
49. What is: a permanent facility control done through surgical procedures?
Olfactory epithelium
Positive Correlation
Sterilization
Spermicides
50. What kind of problem can it cause when a husband and wife have different blood types?
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