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DSST Lifespan Developmental Psychology
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1. What are the four characteristics of perception?
Automatic - selective - contextual - and creative
Humanistic
The posterior (back) fontanel: within two months of birth. The anterior (front) fontanel: by the child's 2nd birthday.
Opens and closes to let the correct amount of light in
2. What gland releases hormones that regulate hormone secretions of other glands?
Lewis Terman
Negative reinforcer
Contraception
Pituitary gland
3. Stage in which whether you will be punished or not determines what is moral or not - also called the punishment and obiedience phase
Stage 1
Functionalism
Cellular Theory
Correlation coefficient
4. What is: when the mother consumes alcohol while her babies are in the womb?
3 & 4
Autoerotic behavior
Fetal alcohol syndrome
Endocrine system
5. Once the disease strikes - an individual w/ Alzheimer's disease usually has their life expectancy is:
Cut in half
Abortion
Sympathetic nervous system
The cloth monkey
6. When a participant fills out a survey themselves about themselves
Self-report data
Dyscalcula
Contraception
Encoding the information - represnting the information - and retrieving information from memory.
7. What is the simple type of learning for getting used to something?
Avoid punishment
Habituation
Visual cliff
Perception
8. Piaget believed that the individual actively constructs knowledge about the world--what is the term for this?
Psychometrics
Dura mater
Cognitive theorist
Dialectical perspective
9. Which stage of development is: Industry vs. Inferiority? (working with others)
23 pairs
School-age Child
If the mom and child have different blood types - the mom's cells can attack the baby.
Rationalization
10. What is the method to find the amount that one variable changes in relation to another?
Resilient child
Correlational research
Inner ear
Base of the skull; size of a pea
11. What is: the theory centered on studying how the mind is involved in knowing - learning - remembering - thinking; study how the mind relates to behavior
Psychometrics
Divergent thinking
Gender conservation
Cognitive
12. First development of language; pre-speech
Cooing
Opens and closes to let the correct amount of light in
Subject
Bandura
13. Which stage of development is: Intimacy vs. Isolation? (emotional ties with others)
Sexual orientation
The brain
Functionalism
Young Adult
14. Used to show links between people - events - actions - behaviors - etc. while not determining the caus - rather is linked to statistics
Monocular cues
Adrenal glands
Laboratory observation
Correlation Research
15. Who founded the Hierarchy of Needs theory?
Inner ear
Maslow
Lewis Terman
Mental health
16. Read pages 22-25 for charts: Piaget's Stages of Development and Freud's Psychosexual Stages
Selective attention
Independent variable
Positive reinforcer
...
17. Where nursing care is given meant to maximize the quality of life for someone who is dying
Sterilization
Automatic
Hospice
Cooing
18. What does STDs stand for - including AIDS and herpes?
Bargaining
Explicit role instruction
Sexually transmitted diseases
Fetal Alcohol Syndrome
19. Infants develop a secure attachment when parents pay attention to and respond to a child's needs. What theory includes this statement?
The brain
Vestibular sense
Psychoanalytic theory
Experimental research
20. What are the three different types of teratogens?
Around age two
Drugs - diseases (like HIV - rubella) - and pollutants (mercury - radiation - etc)
The posterior (back) fontanel: within two months of birth. The anterior (front) fontanel: by the child's 2nd birthday.
Freud
21. The larger the sample:
Sampling
The more accurate the result
Gender conservation
Cerebral cortex
22. Categories of old age: 65-74
Young-old
Sympathetic nervous system
Conservation
They can be coached into learning a type of test--do better or worse - etc.
23. What is the thought process that considers an idea or belief (thesis) and acknowledges the idea's opposite (antithesis)?
Short attention span
Fluid intelligence
Dialectical perspective
Regression
24. What are the four layers that protect the brain?
Critical period
Operant Conditioning
More Knowledgeable Other (MKO)
The skull - dura mater membrane - arachnoid layer - and pia mater.
25. Stage at which children are egocentric and will therefore think divorce is their fault
Authoritarian
Fluid intelligence and crystal intelligence
Preoperational stage (ages 3-6)
Gradually through shaping
26. What do children in early language development not understand?
True
Inner ear
Midwife
Figurative language
27. What are the four areas of taste that taste-buds recognize?
Adrenal glands
Limbic system
Naturalistic observation
Sweet - bitter - salty - sour
28. Chomsky believed that the ability to develop language skills was inherited in ______.
Cognitive
Genes
Resilient child
Spiritual health
29. What are: general term for the reproductive organs in a male or female?
Dura mater
Kleinfelter Syndrome; male
Negative Correlation
Gonads
30. What is the main symptom of hyperactivity?
50%
Short attention span
Alfred Binet
No correlation
31. What attention disorders also interfere with the learning process?
Attention Deficit Disorder and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
Authoritarian
Zone of Proximal Development
Celibacy
32. What is: the theory focused on 'how' of behavior; minds are a continuous flow of information about experiences - and role is to study the mind/behavior as they adapt to the environment
Extinction
Gradually through shaping
Functionalism
Gilligan
33. What is: the theory that all people are inherently good and motivated to achieve their full potential
Naturalistic observation
The brain/the cerebral cortex
Humanistic
12+
34. What is: attraction to both sexes?
Irritability - social responsiveness - and activity level
Bisexual
Divergent thinking
Self-actualization
35. In a child - can be expressed as 'nobody likes me'
Divergent thinking
Sexual identity
Childhood depression
Dizygotic twins
36. What 4 main problems do fetal alcohol syndrome cause?
Dyscalcula
Loudness
Schema
Slowed growth - body/face malfunctions - nervous system disorders - mental retardation.
37. What is: your thoughts - beliefs - attitudes - and values
Carl Rogers
Mental health
The Montessori Method
Brain and spinal cord
38. What is a common learning disability in reading?
Displacement
Dyslexia
Cognitive
Rubella
39. What is another name for a newborn?
Subjects may be dishonest w/ their answers
Neonate
Morphemes
Genetic Mutation
40. Why did studies used by Piaget and Freud lead to wrong conclusions?
Class inclusion
Conception
They were not scientifically performed
Drugs - diseases (like HIV - rubella) - and pollutants (mercury - radiation - etc)
41. What is: the belief that you are the center of the universe and everything revolves around you - and the inability to see the world as someone else does and adapt to it.
Emotional health
William James
Pia mater
Egocentrism
42. 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
Psychoanalytical
Equilibrium
Kohlberg
Esteem needs
43. An environment where children live and attend school
Placebo effect
Cooing
Midwife
Peer group
44. A communication style in which single words are used to communicate - typical of toddlers learning to speak - for example 'give' or 'mama'. The meaning is still understood even though complete sentences are not used
23 pairs
Timbre
Babbling
Holophrase syntax
45. What is: psychological definition for having more equal personality characteristics between male&female?
Androgynous
Equilibrium
You need two - one from each parent - to conceive.
Independent variable
46. The smallest unit of a word which has meaning - may be bound or free
Monocular cues
Noise
Cones
Morphemes
47. Does a somatic (body) cell have a full - or half - set of chromosomes?
Chomsky
Pituitary gland
Full (46)
Adolescent Egocentrism
48. What is: an M.D. who specializes in OB-GYN?
Functionalism
Obstetrician-gynecologist
Teratology
Placebo effect
49. Which though process is follower thinking?
Convergent thinking
Middle childhood
Sympathetic - parasympathetic - and enteric
Longitudinal Study
50. What part of the central nervous system controls all necessary functions of the body?
The brain
The cerebrum
Divergent thinking
Encoding the information - represnting the information - and retrieving information from memory.
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