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DSST Lifespan Developmental Psychology
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1. True or False: Kohlberg believed that you go through each step of moral development one @ a time and could not skip them.
True
John Watson
Teratogens
Morality of Care
2. A correlation coefficient of zero
Olfactory epithelium
No correlation
Baby Albert
Cross-modal perception
3. What is: the way the brain organizes and gives meaning to information provided by the senses?
Perception
The brain stem
Loudness
Gene
4. What is the main symptom of hyperactivity?
Clinical psychologist
Cerebrum
Intrinsic reinforcer
Short attention span
5. What is: any pill designed to prevent pregnancy?
Selective attention
Mostly developed by the time of birth
Oral contraceptives
Content validity
6. What is the term for the death of a child under one year - for no apparent reason?
Invincibility fable
Middle childhood
Family situation - the world around you - lifespan - and maturity.
Sudden Infant Death Syndrome
7. Stage in which you do what is right in order to gain status or approval from other people or society; 'good boy-good girl' orientation
Stage 3
Kibbutz
Six or seven months
Behaviorism
8. What percent of children in kindergarten are immunized?
Object permanence
Dependent variable
Morphemes
99%
9. Something pleasant used to make a behavior more likely
Cerebellum
Positive reinforcer
Morphemes
True
10. What is the thought process that considers an idea or belief (thesis) and acknowledges the idea's opposite (antithesis)?
Longitudinal Study
Genetic Mutation
Rods
Dialectical perspective
11. What is the characteristic that: you may be more interested in a person - rather than what she is saying?
The brain/the cerebral cortex
Dyslexia
Humanistic
Selective
12. If a test measures what is meant to measure it is considered what?
Sampling
Ferdinand Lamaze
Valid
Old Age
13. According to both Kohlberg and Piaget - the most immature reason to do something is to:
Smell
3-7
Psychometrics
Avoid punishment
14. Second stage in the Kubler-Ross's Stages of Dying: 'This is unfair. Why me?'
Stage 5
Denial
John Bowlby's Attachment Theory
Anger (Emotion)
15. What is the most dangerous trimester for the fetus (in regard to drug/alcohol use)?
Young-old
Resilient child
First trimester
Kubler-Ross's Stages of Dying
16. What is: the fluid filled structure in the inner ear that looks like a snail?
Cochlea
The skull - dura mater membrane - arachnoid layer - and pia mater.
In vitro fertilization
Classical conditioning
17. Who made the first IQ test?
Injections
Heterosexual
Alfred Binet
Preschooler
18. Defense mechanism: transferring your thoughts and feelings onto others
Acceptance
Id
Projection
Corpus callosum
19. Stages of friendship: two way - fair weathered
12+
Sudden Infant Death Syndrome
5
6-12
20. What is the middle number in a set of data called?
Longitudinal Study
Jean Piaget
Down syndrome
Median
21. Who did the study between stimulus and response with dogs; and what did he discover?
Selective attention
Pavlov; classical conditioning
Divergent thinking
Autonomic Nervous System
22. The distortion of the results
Recall
Bias
Abortion
Sigmund Freud
23. What is when the baby is born in a pool or bath with dim lights?
Dependent variable
Gentle birth
Hollow phrases
Cognitive theorist
24. What is: a statistical measure of typical scores for categories of information?
Emergency contraception
Authoritative
Dialectical perspective
Developmental norm
25. What is: your thoughts - beliefs - attitudes - and values
Daydreaming
Positive Correlation
Injections
Mental health
26. What is: the theory centered on behavior; see person as blank slate upon which impressions of experiences can be recorded.
4
Androgynous
Cross-modal perception
Behavioral
27. Which stage of development is: Ego Integrity vs. Despair? (what they have done with their life)
Self-esteem
Old Age
Organ of corti
Thalamus
28. What is the clear membrane in front of the eye that protects it?
Cornea
William James
Negative Correlation
Gender identity
29. There are usually two groups in an experiment - titled:
Cerebral palsy
Contraception
Experimental group and control group
It measures a child against their peers - in that moment
30. What is a learning disability in math - where concepts are learned one day and forgotten the next?
Intestate
Placebo effect
...
Dyscalcula
31. What is a common learning disability in reading?
Weak correlation
Dyslexia
Phenylketonuria (PKU)
Denial (Shock)
32. Who argued that classical conditioning explains some behaviors - but operant conditioning plays a much larger role?
Dialectical perspective
B.F. Skinner
Crystallized intelligence
Six months
33. Who developed the theory of social development?
Behavioral
Rite of Passage
Rods
Vygotsky
34. What is: an experienced practitioner who can attend pregnancies and deliveries?
Midwife
Neonate
Parietal lobe
Placebo effect
35. Which part of the ANS is the arousing part of the system?
Sympathetic nervous system
Kleinfelter Syndrome; male
Nature
Maslow
36. In a case study - a single individual called a _____ is intensely studied
Accommodation
Commissures
Subject
Teratology
37. After how many cigarettes will the fetus definitely have problems--with a 50% greater risk of childhood cancer?
Sexually transmitted diseases
Bandura
Kleinfelter Syndrome; male
Five
38. The smallest unit of a word which has meaning - may be bound or free
Morphemes
Invincibility fable
Bound morpheme
Hour of love
39. 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?
Pitch
The meanlinkk of utterance (how long their sentences are)
Nurture
Timbre
40. Anything which makes a behavior more likely to occur
Accommodation
Functionalism
Reinforcer
Lewis Terman
41. Fourth step in Maslow's Hierarchy of needs in which you begin to think about you self-esteem and how you feel as a person
Divergent thinking
Parallel play
Esteem needs
Corpus callosum
42. Who taught women breathing procedures to get through childbirth - including panting?
Holophrase syntax
Absolute threshold
Ferdinand Lamaze
Temporal lobe
43. What are the three different types of teratogens?
Cerebral anoxia
Gonads
Epinephrine and norepinephrine
Drugs - diseases (like HIV - rubella) - and pollutants (mercury - radiation - etc)
44. Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs consists of which steps?
Self-actualization - Esteem needs - Belonging and love - Safety - Physical needs
Condom
Mentally retarded
The brain/the cerebral cortex
45. What is the variable that the experimenter controls?
Independent variable
Genetic Mutation
Cochlea
Raymond Cattell
46. What is: sheath of thin latex designed to catch sperm upon ejaculation?
Mendel
Condom
Self-actualization
Egocentric behavior
47. 1 -2 -2 -2 -3 -3 -5 -8 -9 -9. What is the mode?
Free morpheme
2
Phonemes
Stage 2
48. How much alcohol is the safe amount to consume during pregnancy?
No
Monozygotic twins
None!!
Ferdinand Lamaze
49. Why is autism rare in children for the first 2 1/2 years?
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50. Who thought of the mind as a stream of consciousness--a flow of emotions - sensations and thoughts?
Dialectical perspective
Stimulus generalization
Adolescent
William James