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DSST Lifespan Developmental Psychology
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1. The distortion of the results
Sudden Infant Death Syndrome
Bias
Lens
Gender role stereotypes
2. What percent of children in kindergarten are immunized?
True
Hospice
99%
Fetal tobacco syndrome
3. What is the term for lack of responsiveness to other people?
Androgynous
Condom
Autism
Long labors or birth complications
4. Level 3 of Kohlberg's Theory of Moral Development includes which stages
Pupil
Weak correlation
5 & 6
Syphillis and rubella
5. What most-extreme fate does syphillis often cause in infants?
Abortion
Miscarriages or stillbirths
Binocular cues
Reinforcer
6. What kind of problem can it cause when a husband and wife have different blood types?
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7. What is: areas of the body which - when touched - lead to sexual arousal?
Cross-modal perception
Erogenous zones
Object permanence
Women - men
8. The scientific study of words and sentences
Semantics
Extinction
Stage 3
ADHD
9. All senses report to the thalamus except for one--which?
The skull - dura mater membrane - arachnoid layer - and pia mater.
Object permanence
Smell
Autonomic Nervous System
10. Who created structuralism?
Inner ear
Critical period
Ego
Wilhelm Wundt
11. What is: the part of the ear inside the cochlea; contains sensors that change energy into impulses to be decoded by the brain?
Organ of corti
Cross Sectional Study
Self-actualization - Esteem needs - Belonging and love - Safety - Physical needs
Stage 6
12. Which of these diseases can cause miscarriage - stillbirth - heart defects - deafness - and other problems?
Bound morpheme
Rubella
Cerebral palsy
Preparatory Depression
13. Categories of old age: 85+
Old-old
Mean
Permissive
Alzheimer's Disease
14. What is: expression of your maleness or femaleness on a daily basis?
Esteem needs
Experimental group and control group
Gender roles
Preconventional - conventional - postconventional
15. What is the study done to show that infants have depth perception?
Visual cliff
Divergent thinking
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
5 & 6
16. What is the scientific name for the sense of smell?
ADHD
Gender roles
Endocrine system
Olfactory sense
17. What are areas in a baby's skull where cartilage hasn't yet hardened into bone?
Irritability - social responsiveness - and activity level
Regression
Fontanels
No
18. Stage in which whether you will be punished or not determines what is moral or not - also called the punishment and obiedience phase
Rods
Biological; Behavioral; Cognitive; Humanistic; Psychoanalytical; Structuralism; Functionalism; Nature vs. Nurture
Operant conditioning
Stage 1
19. Which part of the ANS is the calming part of the system?
Erik Erikson
Parasympathetic
Hollow phrases
Correlational research
20. What does the left half of the brain control?
Babbling
Esteem needs
Correlation Research
The right hand - right eye - and speech
21. Third element: There is a gap between what the child can do with help - and what they can do on their own; shows when a child has finally learned it
Physical needs
Zone of Proximal Development
The brain/the cerebral cortex
Ferdinand Lamaze
22. Means that the participants must know the content of the experiment and be warned of any risk or harm
Auditory System
The right hand - right eye - and speech
Informed consent
Adolescent
23. Second stage in the Kubler-Ross's Stages of Dying: 'This is unfair. Why me?'
Puberty
Anger (Emotion)
First trimester
Structuralism
24. Who made the first IQ test?
Alfred Binet
Stimulus generalization
Rods
The posterior (back) fontanel: within two months of birth. The anterior (front) fontanel: by the child's 2nd birthday.
25. What is: hatred and fear of homosexuals?
Cephalocaudal
Homophobia
Operation
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26. The final stage of Maslow's Hierarchy of needs. A stage you may never actually meet.
Homosexual
Self-actualization
Infertility
Semantics
27. What is: when a child can't be conceived via the usual method?
Infertility
Appearance - pulse - grimace (reflex) - activity - and respiration
Women - men
Depth perception
28. What is the part in the back of the eye that includes receptors called rods and cones?
Retina
Young Adult
Osteoporosis
Conservation
29. What are the two directions of growth in the embryo?
Self-actualization
Cephalocaudal and Proximodistal
Perception
Outer ear
30. What 4 main problems do fetal alcohol syndrome cause?
Slowed growth - body/face malfunctions - nervous system disorders - mental retardation.
Syphillis and rubella
Chomsky
Mostly developed by the time of birth
31. 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.
Hurried-child
Parallel play
3 & 4
Stage 6
32. What is a common learning disability in reading?
Crystallized intelligence
Cut in half
Monozygotic twins
Dyslexia
33. What is the term to describe the thinking part of health?
Gestalt psychology
Breast-feeding
Weak correlation
Mental health
34. Defined as diseases which are either related to or caused by a sedentary lifestyle - in other words - caused by the lack of regular exercise or activity
The brain stem
6-12
Acceptance
Hypokinetic diseases
35. What syndrome occurs when someone two X and one Y chromosome...and what gender does this make?
Kleinfelter Syndrome; male
The cerebrum
On chromosomes
Vygotsky
36. What is: your feelings and reactions
Wilhelm Wundt
Emotional health
Cerebral anoxia
Phenylketonuria (PKU)
37. What is: the tone color or perceptual quality of a sound?
Binocular cues
Timbre
Olfactory epithelium
Cerebral palsy
38. What is: the amount of pressure produced by a sound wave - measured in decibels?
Invincibility fable
Amplitude
Positive reinforcer
Papillae
39. Does a gamete (reproductive) cell have full or half set of chromosomes?
Half (23)
Alternative - or artificial - insemination
Classical conditioning
Hurried-child
40. What is: an M.D. who provides comprehensive care for people of all ages?
Kubler-Ross's Stages of Dying
Midwife
Experimental research
Family practitioner
41. What is the middle number in a set of data called?
Punishment
Through actions - doing what you believe is correct
Median
Hypokinetic diseases
42. Cultural bias not generally known across all subcultures
Stage 6
Stage 4
Psychometrics
4-9
43. Who introduced the scientific method?
Behavioral
Francis Bacon--16th century
Noise
Independent variable
44. What are the four lobes of the brain?
Occipital - temporal - frontal - and parietal.
Sexually transmitted diseases
Alternative - or artificial - insemination
Social learning theory
45. What is: the representation in the mind of a set of perceptions - ideas - and actions - which go together
Schema
Abortion
Autism
Temporal lobe
46. What are the four components of psychosocial health?
99%
50%
Mental health
Spiritual - emotional - mental - and social health
47. When people w/in an experiment are assigned to a group randomly
Depth perception
Random assignment
Natural prepared childbirth
Bound morpheme
48. How is IQ calculated?
Gender identity
Holophrase syntax
Anger (Emotion)
Mental age/Chronological age - x 100
49. Something used to make a behavior less likely to occur - can be positive or negative
4
Emotional health
Morality of Care
Punishment
50. When one variable increases while another variable decreases. We call this a what?
Negative Correlation
Ethics
Humanistic Theorists
Rationalization
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