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DSST Lifespan Developmental Psychology
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1. What are: drugs taken within three days to prevent pregnancy from instances such as no protection - or a broken condom?
Cooing
Pia mater
Biological; Behavioral; Cognitive; Humanistic; Psychoanalytical; Structuralism; Functionalism; Nature vs. Nurture
Emergency contraception
2. A number between +1 and -1 that measures the strength between two variables
Correlation coefficient
Mode
Developmental norm
Projection
3. Biological theories of aging: like everything else in the world - the human body wears out
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
Wear-and-Tear Theory
Binocular cues
Telegraphic speech
4. What is: areas of the body which - when touched - lead to sexual arousal?
Erogenous zones
Thalamus
Depo-Provera
Mean
5. Defense mechanism: a type of displacement - a redirection of the feeling into a socially productive activity
Extinction
Critical period
Sublimation
Middle-old
6. How does the pupil work?
Fluid intelligence and crystal intelligence
Opens and closes to let the correct amount of light in
Cerebral cortex
Gender identity
7. What is: the ability to associate something from one area of knowledge - and use that to determine or imagine what it is like in other aspects?
Divergent thinkers
Carl Rogers
Classical conditioning works more to explain reflexive or unconscious reactions - Operant conditioning works to explain elective actions and reactions
Cross-modal perception
8. When a researcher observes and studies subjects w/o interacting or interfering w/ them
Ferdinand Lamaze
Autoimmune Theory
No correlation
Naturalistic observation
9. Which stage of development is: Industry vs. Inferiority? (working with others)
Mental health
Contraception
School-age Child
Three
10. What are the two parts responsible for bending light and focusing it in the back of the eye?
Hypothalamus
Self-actualization - Esteem needs - Belonging and love - Safety - Physical needs
Lewis Terman
Cornea and lens
11. Anything which makes a behavior more likely to occur
Reinforcer
Occipital lobe
Injections
Hollow phrases
12. 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
Cerebrospinal fluid
Babbling
Functionalism
12+
13. 1 + 5 + 6. What is the mean?
Functionalism
4
Gene
Safety
14. First step in Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs such as food water and shelter
Physical needs
Assimilation
Brain and spinal cord
Francis Bacon--16th century
15. What attention disorders also interfere with the learning process?
Limbic system
Attention Deficit Disorder and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
Breast-feeding
Irritability - social responsiveness - and activity level
16. Putting disabled students w/ normal students
Preoperational stage (ages 3-6)
Mainstreaming
Appearance - pulse - grimace (reflex) - activity - and respiration
Sublimation
17. What is: method of contraception by having no direct contact with partner's genitals?
Cerebrospinal fluid
Fetal alcohol syndrome
Physical needs
Abstinence
18. What is the name of the scientist known as the father of genetics and inheritance?
The brain/the cerebral cortex
Occipital lobe
23 pairs
Mendel
19. Teaches that when a certain action is performed - there are consequences--reinforces good behavior with extrinsic/intrinsic reinforcers
Pupil
The brain stem
William James
Operant conditioning
20. Who conducted a longitudinal study of smart kids - resulting that they become happy adults?
Classical conditioning works more to explain reflexive or unconscious reactions - Operant conditioning works to explain elective actions and reactions
Divergent thinking
Lewis Terman
90%
21. How much alcohol is the safe amount to consume during pregnancy?
Naturalistic observation
None!!
Infant
They can be coached into learning a type of test--do better or worse - etc.
22. Which thought process is: many ideas are brainstormed to explore many possible solutions; used in creative settings?
Divergent thinking
As they age
Placebo effect
Cornea and lens
23. A test that gives information about a participant including standardized tests such as aptitude - interest - and personality tests
Ego
Appearance - pulse - grimace (reflex) - activity - and respiration
Psychological Tests
Self-concept
24. What regulates internal temperature - eating - sleeping - drinking - emotions - and sexual activity?
Projection
Middle childhood
Hypothalamus
3 & 4
25. Where nursing care is given meant to maximize the quality of life for someone who is dying
The brain stem
Hospice
You need two - one from each parent - to conceive.
Cochlea
26. What is the conception alternative where fertilization of the egg is done outside the body - and then transferred back into the body?
Outer ear
In vitro fertilization
Regression
Self-concept
27. Contains the psychic content related to the primitive instincts of the body - notably sex and aggression - functioning entirely according to the pleasure-pain principle - seeking either immediate fulfillment or settling for a compromise fulfillment
Gender roles
Id
Denial (Shock)
Hour of love
28. What system is made up of the hypothalamus and other glands?
Cornea and lens
1) Gather info - 2) Generate hypothesis - 3) Test hypothesis - 4) Revise
William James
Endocrine system
29. Age at with children start feeling a fear of the dark - which can be strong and appear suddenly
Syphillis and rubella
6
Abstinence
Median
30. Who was the psychoanalyst who documented stages of emotional growth in regards to babies?
Mostly developed by the time of birth
Natural observation
Lens
Erik Erikson
31. What is: your interactions with others in social situations
Dialectical perspective
Social health
Skin appearance - 'age spots' - hair
Psychiatrist
32. Children learn and form their conscience and thoughts of what is acceptable behavior from what?
10-14 months
Watching their parents
Explicit role instruction
The cerebrum
33. What do endocrine glands do?
ADHD
First trimester
Conservation
Create and release chemicals into the blood
34. The best way to teach children values is?
Cross-modal perception
Rite of Passage
Reaction Formation
Through actions - doing what you believe is correct
35. Did a longitudinal study that showed that smart kids are happy adults
Fetal death
Lewis Terman
William James
Old-old
36. What is the term for low IQ and mental age of about 4 years old?
School-age Child
Mental age/Chronological age - x 100
Abstinence
Mentally retarded
37. Also called learning theory - based on the principle of observing and correcting behavior
Monozygotic twins
Behaviorism
Corpus callosum
Punishment
38. Aside from learning disabilities - what physical problem do Kleinfelter people have?
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39. Which part of the ANS is the arousing part of the system?
Negative Correlation
Vygotsky
Irritability - social responsiveness - and activity level
Sympathetic nervous system
40. Third step in Maslow's Hierarchy of needs in which you may want to meet needs of belongings and love through relationships
Free morpheme
Wear-and-Tear Theory
Belonging and love
Hurried-child
41. What is the most dangerous trimester for the fetus (in regard to drug/alcohol use)?
Toddler
Encoding the information - represnting the information - and retrieving information from memory.
Self-actualization
First trimester
42. What is the term for lack of responsiveness to other people?
Sexual orientation
Acceptance
Consciousness
Autism
43. When a participant starts to feel the effects of the drug but is actually taking a sugar pill or placebo
Absolute threshold
All drugs - including over the counter - aspirin - coffee
The cerebrum
Placebo effect
44. What is: relating new information to something familiar
Peer group
B.F. Skinner
Operant Conditioning
Elaboration
45. What is: a child (especially preschool age) doesn't take into consideration other people's needs--their perceptions are limited to their own point of view
Appearance - pulse - grimace (reflex) - activity - and respiration
Egocentric behavior
Middle-age Adult
Cellular Theory
46. 1 -3 -4 -5 -7 -8 -10 what is the median?
5
2
Outer ear
Olfactory epithelium
47. What is the least developed part of a newborn (growth is not complete)?
Adolescent
The brain/the cerebral cortex
Psychoanalytical
Sweet - bitter - salty - sour
48. What is the characteristic that: you fill in areas that we do not have complete information about?
Creative
Classification
Loudness
Genes
49. In the Harlow experiment: between the wire monkey+bottle - and cloth monkey+no bottle - which fake mother did the babies prefer?
Experimental group and control group
ADHD
The cloth monkey
Family practitioner
50. How many different theories of language development are there?
Stage 5
Reinforcer
Smell
Three