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DSST Lifespan Developmental Psychology
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1. The integrator between the outer and inner worlds - as well as the id and the superego. Gives continuity and consistency to behavior by providing a personal point of reference - which relates to the events of the past and actions of the present and o
Ego
Gender
Drugs - diseases (like HIV - rubella) - and pollutants (mercury - radiation - etc)
Morphemes
2. What is: structures in the cerebral cortex related to memory and emotion?
Operant Conditioning
Limbic system
Preconventional Morality
Hollow phrases
3. When something from conditioning carries over to another related area; made baby Albert afraid of all furry animals - rather than just rats
Laboratory observation
Opens and closes to let the correct amount of light in
More Knowledgeable Other (MKO)
Stimulus generalization
4. Who argued that classical conditioning explains some behaviors - but operant conditioning plays a much larger role?
Infertility
B.F. Skinner
Humanistic Theorists
Self-actualization - Esteem needs - Belonging and love - Safety - Physical needs
5. A term used in research used to describe something measurable usually expressed as a number
Five
Loudness
Sympathetic - parasympathetic - and enteric
Quantitative
6. One's wishes for the distribution of one's property and possessions after death
Alzheimer's Disease
3-7
A will
Osteoporosis
7. The scientific study of words and sentences
Spermicides
Semantics
No
Independent variable
8. What is: the ability to group objects together on the basis of common features?
As they age
Classification
Lewis Terman
Clinical psychologist
9. A person who uses ______ has a stated position - but also acknowledges that it may change over time.
Dialectical perspective
Perception
Social learning theory
They can be coached into learning a type of test--do better or worse - etc.
10. What is: the tone color or perceptual quality of a sound?
Timbre
Self-report data
Id - Ego - Super Ego
Biological; Behavioral; Cognitive; Humanistic; Psychoanalytical; Structuralism; Functionalism; Nature vs. Nurture
11. Pavlovs famous classical conditioning dog experiment.
Kohlberg
Bell would ring - then feed the dogs - Dogs would salivate when given food - Over time dogs began to salivate simply at ring of bell
Weak correlation
Stage 1
12. How many different theories of language development are there?
Gestalt psychology
Three
Dependent variable
Automatic
13. What is: your feelings and reactions
Binocular cues
Cross-modal perception
Emotional health
Stage 4
14. Who coined the Theory of Moral Development?
Kohlberg
Autoerotic behavior
Multiple caretakers
Cross Sectional Study
15. Stereotypes in genders; boys play with trucks and girls wear makeup - etc.
Operant conditioning
Babbling
Five
Explicit role instruction
16. What is: the theory based on biology; belief that behavior and personality are linked to genetics
Sympathetic nervous system
Long labors or birth complications
Not fully developed; but can distinguish color - track movement - and bright objects.
Biological
17. Why are IQ scores only accurate for short periods of time?
Outer ear
Humanistic
Divergent thinkers
It measures a child against their peers - in that moment
18. Rogers and Maslow are both:
Freud
Humanistic Theorists
Safety
Psychoanalytical
19. What is a learning disability in math - where concepts are learned one day and forgotten the next?
Kleinfelter Syndrome; male
10
Bell would ring - then feed the dogs - Dogs would salivate when given food - Over time dogs began to salivate simply at ring of bell
Dyscalcula
20. Why is self-report data not as reliable as other research methods?
Fetal death
Raymond Cattell
Subjects may be dishonest w/ their answers
True
21. What is: a state of mental balance - reconciling new experiences with new understanding
Mean
3
Equilibrium
Heterosexual
22. Defense mechanism: hiding the feelings and not acknowledging them
Egocentric behavior
Sigmund Freud
Family practitioner
Suppression
23. What is: a progesterone shot given every three months?
99%
Commissures
Social development or social cognition
Depo-Provera
24. What is the name for the awareness of external and internal events?
Closure
Accommodation
Peer group
Consciousness
25. What is: areas of the body which - when touched - lead to sexual arousal?
The cerebrum
The Premack Principle
The right hand - right eye - and speech
Erogenous zones
26. What is: located in the limbic system - with primary function to store memories?
Reinforcer
Hippocampus
School-age Child
Gentle birth
27. What does the right half of the brain control?
Sexual orientation
The cloth monkey
Dizygotic twins
Left hand - left eye - and simple comprehension
28. The process of unassociating the condition with the response
Pituitary gland
Authoritative
Extinction
50%
29. What is: the process by which a society identifies its expectations?
2
Opens and closes to let the correct amount of light in
Autoimmune Theory
Socialization
30. A type of conditioning in which a person associates an action with a consequence
Parasympathetic
Cephalocaudal
Operant Conditioning
Correlation Research
31. Stage in which a person makes decisions according to his or her conscience; the universal ethical principal orientation; not many people ever reach this stage
Regression
Preoperational stage (ages 3-6)
Preschooler
Stage 6
32. What is the main difference between classical and operant conditioning?
Intestate
Biological
Skin appearance - 'age spots' - hair
Classical conditioning works more to explain reflexive or unconscious reactions - Operant conditioning works to explain elective actions and reactions
33. What is: the number of full wavelengths that pass through a point in a given amount of time
Unoccupied behavior - onlooker - solitary independent (plays alone) - parallel play (plays around but not w/ others) - associative - cooperative play
Ivan Pavlov
William James
Frequency
34. Does a somatic (body) cell have a full - or half - set of chromosomes?
Sigmund Freud
Conservation
Full (46)
Psychometrics
35. What kind of problem can it cause when a husband and wife have different blood types?
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36. What do doctors agree is the best way to feed babies?
Self-actualization
Breast-feeding
Functionalism
Bisexual
37. What are the four areas of taste that taste-buds recognize?
Phonemes
Occipital - temporal - frontal - and parietal.
Sweet - bitter - salty - sour
Wilhelm Wundt
38. What are the four layers that protect the brain?
The skull - dura mater membrane - arachnoid layer - and pia mater.
Accommodation
2
Best friend
39. When a researcher observes and studies subjects w/o interacting or interfering w/ them
Pons
Baby Albert
Naturalistic observation
Pitch
40. Which stage of development is: Generativity vs. Stagnation? (giving to the next generation)
Long labors or birth complications
Middle-age Adult
Skin appearance - 'age spots' - hair
10
41. Level 1 of Kohlberg's Theory of Moral Development includes which stages
Physical needs
1 & 2
Class inclusion
Toxic shock syndrome
42. 1 -2 -2 -2 -3 -3 -5 -8 -9 -9. What is the mode?
Abstinence
Gestures
2
Stage 2
43. What is: the process of working something out in your head; shows the difference between young children (act and try things out) and older (can do things in their heads)
Diaphragm
Consciousness
Valid
Operation
44. Removing something unpleasant from a situation - to make a behavior more likely
Psychological Tests
5
Negative reinforcer
Cerebrospinal fluid
45. Who did the study between stimulus and response with dogs; and what did he discover?
Sympathetic - parasympathetic - and enteric
Morality of Care
Pavlov; classical conditioning
Structuralism
46. What is the term for oxygen deficiency to the brain?
Cerebral anoxia
Divergent thinking
Structuralism
Recall
47. Who created functionalism?
Lewis Terman
Fetal death
Sampling
William James
48. 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.
Closure
Because at birth cells aren't well connected (lacking in myelin - or nerve insulation)
3
Egocentrism
49. What percentage of children are affected by hyperactivity?
Spiritual health
Irritability - social responsiveness - and activity level
Three percent
Raymond Cattell
50. In a kibbutz - the real parents of children may see them for one hour a day - a time referred to as the __________.
Egocentrism
Autism
True
Hour of love