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DSST Lifespan Developmental Psychology
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1. 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?
Qualitative
Closure
If the mom and child have different blood types - the mom's cells can attack the baby.
Clinical psychologist
2. When something from conditioning carries over to another related area; made baby Albert afraid of all furry animals - rather than just rats
Stimulus generalization
Egocentric behavior
Conceive at younger ages
As they age
3. In a kibbutz - the real parents of children may see them for one hour a day - a time referred to as the __________.
Hour of love
Equilibrium
Frontal lobe
Old Age
4. What is: sexual self-stimulation or masturbation?
Self-efficacy
Olfactory epithelium
Autoerotic behavior
Divergent thinking
5. Which stage of development is: Generativity vs. Stagnation? (giving to the next generation)
Old Age
Auditory System
Abortion
Middle-age Adult
6. Fourth development of language
Family situation - the world around you - lifespan - and maturity.
Autoerotic behavior
Maslow
Telegraphic speech
7. There are usually two groups in an experiment - titled:
Experimental group and control group
Alzheimer's Disease
Family therapy
Cerebral anoxia
8. Rang the bell each time he fed the dog; eventually how early did the dogs start salivating?
As they age
Telegraphic speech
Fetal death
As soon as the bell was rung
9. What thought process is supported by the example that: infants are given an object to hold - and then can recognize by sight the object.
Cerebellum
Cross-modal perception
Put babies on their backs to sleep - and not have anything extra (toys - pillows etc) in the bed or crib.
Gender conservation
10. What is a specific period in development when a certain event has the greatest impact? (For example - a certain period of time when a young bird can learn to fly)
A will
Correlation coefficient
As they age
Critical period
11. What glands affect the mood - energy level - and stress?
Divergent thinking
Nature vs. nurture
Adrenal glands
Cochlea
12. Removing something unpleasant from a situation - to make a behavior more likely
Cornea and lens
Teratogens
Negative reinforcer
You need two - one from each parent - to conceive.
13. Theory by Bandura; the interaction of a person's personality - the environment - and the behavior.
Reciprocal determinism
Sound waves
Hospice
Intrinsic reinforcer
14. When a participant fills out a survey themselves about themselves
Self-report data
Papillae
No correlation
Peer group
15. Who believed that children's thinking doesn't develop smoothly - but instead certain points where it 'takes off' and transitions into new areas?
Independent variable
Best friend
On chromosomes
Jean Piaget
16. What is the variable that the experimenter controls?
Sexual identity
Independent variable
Longitudinal fissure
Homosexual
17. What is: an M.D. who specializes in OB-GYN?
Positive Correlation
Selective attention
Placebo effect
Obstetrician-gynecologist
18. Who proposed fluid/crystallized intelligence?
Fit in
Nature
Young-old
Raymond Cattell
19. Sigmund Freud's analysis of human personality and subconscious drives features three main components including:
Operation
Infant
Harry Harlow
Id - Ego - Super Ego
20. Biological theories of aging: we only have a certain number of cells - which are programmed to only replicate so many times before they are finished and the body begins to deteriorate
Cellular Theory
Perception
Limbic system
Rite of Passage
21. Level 1 of Kohlberg's Theory of Moral Development
Preconventional Morality
Gestalt psychology
Fontanels
Humanistic Theorists
22. When is anoxia a problem in births?
Long labors or birth complications
Natural observation
The Premack Principle
Maslow
23. What are areas in a baby's skull where cartilage hasn't yet hardened into bone?
The right hand - right eye - and speech
Fontanels
Socialization
Three percent
24. What is the conception alternative where semen is deposited into the body via a thin tube?
Rite of Passage
Mendel
Alternative - or artificial - insemination
Autonomic Nervous System
25. When one variable increase - another variable increases. We call this a what?
Family practitioner
Gestalt psychology
Positive Correlation
Left hand - left eye - and simple comprehension
26. Who developed the theory of social development?
The Montessori Method
Vygotsky
Modeling
Nurture
27. Biological theories of aging: the number of cells that have problems or mutations that increase w/ age
Genetic Mutation
Emotional neglect
Emergency contraception
Self-actualization - Esteem needs - Belonging and love - Safety - Physical needs
28. Gilligan believed that ________ conflicted between self and other - while ________ conflicted between self and justice
Gentle birth
Psychometrics
Weak correlation
Women - men
29. What is another term for the system of hearing?
Dura mater
Auditory System
Social health
Cross-modal perception
30. A reinforcer that comes from within the individual--something emotional.
Intrinsic reinforcer
Bell would ring - then feed the dogs - Dogs would salivate when given food - Over time dogs began to salivate simply at ring of bell
Selective attention
Schema
31. What are the 8 psychological approaches?
Infants were placed on a solid - opaque surface - and the mothers were placed at the end of the table - where the opaque ended and glass begun. The infants didn't want to cross the glass because they could see the distance between themselves and the
Gilligan
Stage 5
Biological; Behavioral; Cognitive; Humanistic; Psychoanalytical; Structuralism; Functionalism; Nature vs. Nurture
32. What does the left half of the brain control?
Valid
Bell would ring - then feed the dogs - Dogs would salivate when given food - Over time dogs began to salivate simply at ring of bell
The right hand - right eye - and speech
Frequency
33. Whatmakes a person able to see objects are they are - in 3 dimensions?
Correlation Research
Depth perception
Stage 1
Emergency contraception
34. Defense mechanism: a type of displacement - a redirection of the feeling into a socially productive activity
Alternative - or artificial - insemination
Allow the skull's plates of bone to shift or flex - making childbirth easier.
Sublimation
Rite of Passage
35. What do children in early language development not understand?
Reciprocal determinism
Figurative language
Three percent
Francis Bacon--16th century
36. Something used to make a behavior less likely to occur - can be positive or negative
Correlation Research
Emotional neglect
Punishment
Cross-modal perception
37. What is the ability to identify correctly something encountered before?
Recognition
Spiritual - emotional - mental - and social health
Childhood depression
Increase
38. What are the three different areas of the Autonomic Nervous System?
Gender identity
6-12
Sympathetic - parasympathetic - and enteric
Psychological maltreatment
39. A child that is always in a hurry
Social health
Selective attention
Hurried-child
Miscarriages or stillbirths
40. Which thought process is a creative process?
Depo-Provera
Divergent thinking
Cephalocaudal
Self-efficacy
41. If you are A positive blood - what is that in terms of Rh factor?
Smell
Rh positive
Contraception
3 & 4
42. By the time they reach middle childhood - most girls will identify with one and only one _______.
Best friend
Sympathetic nervous system
Toddler
Valid
43. What is caused by one extra chromosome in the number 21?
Teratology
Pituitary gland
Down syndrome
On chromosomes
44. Age at which most children will identify specific 'best-friends'
10
Anger (Emotion)
Sublimation
Injections
45. What most-extreme fate does syphillis often cause in infants?
Condom
Miscarriages or stillbirths
4
Absolute threshold
46. One's wishes for the distribution of one's property and possessions after death
Displacement
Bell would ring - then feed the dogs - Dogs would salivate when given food - Over time dogs began to salivate simply at ring of bell
Resilient child
A will
47. What is a learning disability in math - where concepts are learned one day and forgotten the next?
Six months
Homosexual
Dyscalcula
Through actions - doing what you believe is correct
48. Who made the first IQ test?
Skin appearance - 'age spots' - hair
Alfred Binet
Temporal lobe
Physical needs
49. What are: chemicals designed to kill sperm?
Spermicides
IUD
Binocular cues
Safety
50. What are the three parts of memory?
50%
Divergent thinking
Encoding the information - represnting the information - and retrieving information from memory.
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