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DSST Lifespan Developmental Psychology
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. A reinforcer that comes from within the individual--something emotional.
Class inclusion
Habituation
Women - men
Intrinsic reinforcer
2. Who created structuralism?
Wilhelm Wundt
Pavlov; classical conditioning
Homophobia
Figurative language
3. By the time they reach middle childhood - most girls will identify with one and only one _______.
Best friend
Automatic - selective - contextual - and creative
Opens and closes to let the correct amount of light in
Longitudinal fissure
4. What is the term for low IQ and mental age of about 4 years old?
You need two - one from each parent - to conceive.
True
Self-actualization - Esteem needs - Belonging and love - Safety - Physical needs
Mentally retarded
5. What syndrome occurs when someone two X and one Y chromosome...and what gender does this make?
Holophrase syntax
Stage 4
Long labors or birth complications
Kleinfelter Syndrome; male
6. What is the name for depth perception cues made with both eyes?
Gestures
Obstetrician-gynecologist
Sexually transmitted diseases
Binocular cues
7. An environment where children live and attend school
Peer group
Telegraphic speech
Fetal Alcohol Syndrome
Gilligan
8. Which lobe is related to vision?
Rubella
Occipital lobe
Through actions - doing what you believe is correct
Qualitative
9. What is the name of the scientist known as the father of genetics and inheritance?
...
Operant Conditioning
Operant conditioning
Mendel
10. Why does a gamete have a half set of chromosomes?
Cross-modal perception
Mainstreaming
You need two - one from each parent - to conceive.
Phenylketonuria (PKU)
11. What are: the harmful substances to a developing fetus?
Displacement
Gentle birth
Teratogens
Habituation
12. What are: vibrations in the air that we receive through the ear to be processed?
Sound waves
Divergent thinkers
Self-actualization
4-9
13. Jean Piaget extensively used which research method to study children?
Social health
Psychoanalytical
Holophrase syntax
Natural observation
14. What is: your thoughts about what gives life purpose--the meaning of life - religion
Cerebrospinal fluid
Spiritual health
Laboratory observation
Self-esteem
15. The smallest unit of a word which has meaning - may be bound or free
Experimental group and control group
Morphemes
Ferdinand Lamaze
Noise
16. Age at which most children will identify specific 'best-friends'
Attention Deficit Disorder and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
Suppression
10
Olfactory epithelium
17. What is: the realization that objects stay the same even when they are made to look different?
Bell would ring - then feed the dogs - Dogs would salivate when given food - Over time dogs began to salivate simply at ring of bell
Conservation
Multiple caretakers
Socialization
18. How can parents avoid down syndrome in their children?
Conceive at younger ages
Osteoporosis
Schema
Alzheimer's Disease
19. When can a person's short term memory become incapacitated?
Bisexual
Abortion
RU-486
As they age
20. What is: the understanding of more advanced classification; that some sets are also sub-sets of a larger class?
Frequency
Noise
On chromosomes
Class inclusion
21. How much is hearing developed in neonates?
Mostly developed by the time of birth
Informed consent
Down syndrome
5 & 6
22. What determines physical traits and is inherited from one or both parents?
Virginia Apgar - or Apgar Rating
Three
Subject
Gene
23. Stages that a person goes through when they find out they have an incurable disease or find out they are going to die
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24. 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
Occipital - temporal - frontal - and parietal.
Stillbirth
Dependent variable
25. What is: growth from the head downward (head develops before rest of the body)?
Binocular cues
Family therapy
Preoperational stage (ages 3-6)
Cephalocaudal
26. Biological theories of aging: like everything else in the world - the human body wears out
Accommodation
Operant Conditioning
Selera
Wear-and-Tear Theory
27. What is: the ability to group objects together on the basis of common features?
Negative Correlation
Classification
Gradually through shaping
It measures a child against their peers - in that moment
28. What is: your sense of being a man or woman as defined by society?
Gender
Erik Erikson
Constant
Fit in
29. Stages of friendship: autonomous - interdependent
Stage 6
Psychoanalytical
Visual cliff
12+
30. What is: a statistical measure of typical scores for categories of information?
Developmental norm
Social health
3-7
Content validity
31. What is: dynamic blend of our experiences - heredity - environment - etc. which determines how we react to problems/issues?
Freud
Personality
Closure
Vestibular sense
32. What houses memories and controls our responses to different sensory signals?
The cerebrum
Papillae
6
Alfred Binet
33. How much are the eyes developed in newborns?
Infertility
Not fully developed; but can distinguish color - track movement - and bright objects.
Ageism
Holophrase syntax
34. What is: the moment an ovum/egg is fertilized by sperm?
Thalamus
Conception
Self-concept
Through actions - doing what you believe is correct
35. Gilligan believed that ________ conflicted between self and other - while ________ conflicted between self and justice
Reinforcer
Stage 2
Women - men
Cones
36. The best way to teach children values is?
Bandura
Through actions - doing what you believe is correct
Set high standards - assist along the way
Raymond Cattell
37. What is the perception characteristic that: if you have heard a movie is scary - you might be more inclined to get scared?
Contextual
Closure
Hippocampus
Mental health
38. Who argued that if psychology was a true science - then psychologists should only study what they could see and measure (behaviorist theory)?
Excitement - plateau - orgasm - and resolution phases
John Watson
Denial (Shock)
Gender
39. What is: another form of consciousness involving very little effort; dreaming while awake or letting the mind wander?
Daydreaming
Positive Correlation
Egocentric behavior
Survey
40. Once the disease strikes - an individual w/ Alzheimer's disease usually has their life expectancy is:
Cut in half
Corpus callosum
9-15
Homosexual
41. Theory by Bandura; the interaction of a person's personality - the environment - and the behavior.
Reciprocal determinism
Frontal lobe
Cooing
Oral contraceptives
42. What is: where the lens changes its curves to help the eye focus?
Infant
Accommodation
Medicated delivery
50%
43. What is the clear membrane in front of the eye that protects it?
Cornea
Obstetrician-gynecologist - family practitioner - or midwife
All drugs - including over the counter - aspirin - coffee
Infertility
44. What are the four layers that protect the brain?
The Premack Principle
Psychological Tests
The skull - dura mater membrane - arachnoid layer - and pia mater.
Natural prepared childbirth
45. A collection of data from all cases or people in the chosen set
Spiritual - emotional - mental - and social health
RU-486
A census
Thalamus
46. What is: when the mother consumes alcohol while her babies are in the womb?
Gonads
23 pairs
Fetal alcohol syndrome
The Montessori Method
47. What is: when adolescents truly believe themselves to be the center of the universe to those around them?
Adolescent Egocentrism
Cephalocaudal
Figurative language
First trimester
48. What are: general term for the reproductive organs in a male or female?
Proximodistal
Heterosexual
Naturalistic observation
Gonads
49. Who did the study between stimulus and response with dogs; and what did he discover?
Long labors or birth complications
Pavlov; classical conditioning
Adrenal glands
Attention Deficit Disorder and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
50. Rogers and Maslow are both:
Hypokinetic diseases
Humanistic Theorists
Pituitary gland
23 pairs