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DSST Lifespan Developmental Psychology
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. What are the three things to monitor - to measure temperament in infants?
Have more bland personalities and often difficult for them to create and maintain intimate relationships as they have a lack of emotional depth
Obstetrician-gynecologist
Irritability - social responsiveness - and activity level
Correlation coefficient
2. What is the very critical period of the first 3 months in the womb?
4-9
Because at birth cells aren't well connected (lacking in myelin - or nerve insulation)
Longitudinal Study
Prenatal development
3. Defense mechanism: Turning a feeling into the exact opposite feeling
Temporal lobe
Self-efficacy
Double blind
Reaction Formation
4. Which stage of development is: Generativity vs. Stagnation? (giving to the next generation)
Emotional neglect
Biological; Behavioral; Cognitive; Humanistic; Psychoanalytical; Structuralism; Functionalism; Nature vs. Nurture
Monocular cues
Middle-age Adult
5. What is: focusing attention on a small amount of information?
The Premack Principle
Raymond Cattell
Self-actualization
Selective attention
6. What is: any pill designed to prevent pregnancy?
Diaphragm
The meanlinkk of utterance (how long their sentences are)
Middle-old
Oral contraceptives
7. Who was the psychoanalyst who documented stages of emotional growth in regards to babies?
Erik Erikson
Gilligan
Young Adult
Alternative - or artificial - insemination
8. By the time they reach middle childhood - most girls will identify with one and only one _______.
Best friend
23 pairs
Multiple caretakers
Wilhelm Wundt
9. Which stage of development is: Identity vs. Role Confusion? (who am I)
Drugs - diseases (like HIV - rubella) - and pollutants (mercury - radiation - etc)
Sexual orientation
Survey
Adolescent
10. What is the sense that gives information about balance and body movement? (if your body is moving - tilting - etc.)
Vestibular sense
Response extinction
Bias
23 pairs
11. Means that the participants must know the content of the experiment and be warned of any risk or harm
Parietal lobe
Abortion
Preschooler
Informed consent
12. When does language development begin?
Cooing
Six months
Base of the skull; size of a pea
Gender role stereotypes
13. A type of research done inside of a lab - selected to monitor specific biological changes in individuals by using expensive and sophisticated machinery
The meanlinkk of utterance (how long their sentences are)
Laboratory observation
Stillbirth
Sympathetic - parasympathetic - and enteric
14. Who proposed fluid/crystallized intelligence?
Alternative - or artificial - insemination
Mean
Raymond Cattell
No correlation
15. Which stage of development is: Ego Integrity vs. Despair? (what they have done with their life)
Old Age
Multiple caretakers
Adrenal glands
12+
16. How is ADHD diagnosed?
Up to 6 months of observation by doctors
Mainstreaming
Old Age
Olfactory sense
17. All senses report to the thalamus except for one--which?
Teratogens
Obstetrician-gynecologist
Alternative - or artificial - insemination
Smell
18. Did a longitudinal study that showed that smart kids are happy adults
Pituitary gland
Quantitative
Fontanels
Lewis Terman
19. The variable in which the researcher has direct control over
The brain stem
Fetal alcohol syndrome
Id - Ego - Super Ego
Independent variable
20. What is: small device to block access to the uterus; left in place with spermicide for 6-8 hours - in order to kill any remaining sperm?
2
Clinical psychologist
Androgynous
Diaphragm
21. When something from conditioning carries over to another related area; made baby Albert afraid of all furry animals - rather than just rats
Timbre
Accommodation
Stimulus generalization
Breast-feeding
22. What are the four characteristics of perception?
Biological; Behavioral; Cognitive; Humanistic; Psychoanalytical; Structuralism; Functionalism; Nature vs. Nurture
Sampling
Bound morpheme
Automatic - selective - contextual - and creative
23. When people of different ages are studied at one particular time
Fit in
Cross Sectional Study
Limbic system
Stage
24. What gland releases hormones that regulate hormone secretions of other glands?
Pituitary gland
Cerebral palsy
Esteem needs
Figurative language
25. What disorder causes a person to have difficulty concentration - be easily distracted - or constantly in motion?
Ego
The more accurate the result
ADHD
Watching their parents
26. What is the most popular method for giving birth?
Holophrase syntax
Acceptance
Humanistic Theorists
Medicated delivery
27. What is the term for oxygen deficiency to the brain?
Cerebral anoxia
Nature vs. nurture
Divergent thinking
Correlational research
28. Categories of old age: 65-74
Absolute threshold
Young-old
Endocrine system
ADHD
29. What is: a mix of gender identity - gender roles - and orientation; recognition of ourselves as sexual beings.
Sexual identity
Carl Rogers
Sigmund Freud
Selera
30. Age at which children begin to share their toys and interact w/ one another - associative play
3
The right hand - right eye - and speech
Smell
Permissive
31. Extension of 'actions speak louder than words' in behavior; follow others' examples despite their words.
Equilibrium
Social learning theory
Mendel
On chromosomes
32. Putting disabled students w/ normal students
Mainstreaming
Erogenous zones
Brain and spinal cord
Lewis Terman
33. First element to Vygotsky's theory: what does social interaction facilitate?
Multiple caretakers
Cognitive improvement
Frontal lobe
Abstinence
34. What is: the process by which a society identifies its expectations?
Infant
9-15
Socialization
Gentle birth
35. A chronic condition that deteriorates the nerve fibers in the brain controlling memory - speech - and personality. Early symptoms including personality changes - lack of interest in activities - and change in sleep patterns.
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36. Why does a gamete have a half set of chromosomes?
You need two - one from each parent - to conceive.
Punishment
2
Schema
37. What is: the ear's interpretation of a sound's frequency
Pitch
Fetal alcohol syndrome
Sampling
Smell
38. Who argued that if psychology was a true science - then psychologists should only study what they could see and measure (behaviorist theory)?
Ivan Pavlov
Stage 1
Permissive
John Watson
39. A medical doctor with a degree who specializes in psychotherapy - who can prescribe drugs
Around age two
Autoimmune Theory
Naturalistic observation
Psychiatrist
40. Defense mechanism: reverting to old behavior to avoid feelings
Amplitude
Cellular Theory
Regression
Nurture
41. Something used to make a behavior less likely to occur - can be positive or negative
Sexual orientation
Diaphragm
Punishment
Positive reinforcer
42. Four steps of the scientific method include:
1) Gather info - 2) Generate hypothesis - 3) Test hypothesis - 4) Revise
Alzheimer's Disease
Thalamus
Bandura
43. What is: the theory centered on behavior; see person as blank slate upon which impressions of experiences can be recorded.
School-age Child
Short attention span
Behavioral
Cerebrospinal fluid
44. A system which uses operant conditioning to make less probable actions more likely to occur by using more probable actions as reinforcers
The Premack Principle
Adolescent
Displacement
Holophrase syntax
45. The final stage of Maslow's Hierarchy of needs. A stage you may never actually meet.
Inner ear
Self-actualization
Family practitioner
Mostly developed by the time of birth
46. What is: term for how much someone values and respects themselves?
Self-esteem
Response extinction
Raymond Cattell
Cerebral palsy
47. Final stage in the Kubler-Ross's Stages of Dying: 'I'm ready'
Avoid punishment
Acceptance
Divergent thinking
Hurried-child
48. How much alcohol is the safe amount to consume during pregnancy?
Developmental norm
None!!
Infant
Outer ear
49. What is the clear membrane in front of the eye that protects it?
Spermicides
Breast-feeding
Cornea
Alternative - or artificial - insemination
50. States that infants need to form at least one strong attachment such as to a parent - in order to develop normally
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