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DSST Lifespan Developmental Psychology
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Why does a gamete have a half set of chromosomes?
Infertility
Stage 3
You need two - one from each parent - to conceive.
Pavlov; classical conditioning
2. Stage in which you see the right action as what satisfies your personal needs; a person becomes aware of two different viewpoints
If the mom and child have different blood types - the mom's cells can attack the baby.
Stage 2
Mean
Five
3. A signal to society that certain rules have changed - this person is no longer a child
Teratogens
Rite of Passage
Genetic Mutation
Kubler-Ross's Stages of Dying
4. What is: the gland that controls release of hormones from the gonads?
Daydreaming
Bargaining
Pituitary gland
Sexual orientation
5. A person who uses ______ has a stated position - but also acknowledges that it may change over time.
Telegraphic speech
Mostly developed by the time of birth
Dialectical perspective
Reciprocal determinism
6. What is: growth from the head downward (head develops before rest of the body)?
Stimulus generalization
Cephalocaudal
Humanistic Theorists
Id - Ego - Super Ego
7. Stages of friendship: intimate
Sympathetic nervous system
Epinephrine and norepinephrine
Stage 2
9-15
8. What is the term for fraternal twins?
Consciousness
Dizygotic twins
Self-concept
Appearance - pulse - grimace (reflex) - activity - and respiration
9. Why isn't an IQ test a good indicator for children over long periods of time?
Rubella
Preoperational stage (ages 3-6)
Stage 3
They can be coached into learning a type of test--do better or worse - etc.
10. What are the two different classifications of intelligence?
Five
Fluid intelligence and crystal intelligence
Egocentric behavior
Bound morpheme
11. What is: term used to describe a person's belief that they can perform a task successfully?
Hurried-child
Freud
Dyscalcula
Self-efficacy
12. What is: the theory to investigate the elements or 'structures' of the mind; classify structures and focus on conscious thought
The penis doesn't grow and breasts may develop.
Absolute threshold
Six months
Structuralism
13. Which stage of development is: Initiative vs. Guilt? (trying different roles)
Preschooler
Ego
Suppression
Commissures
14. How many different theories of language development are there?
You need two - one from each parent - to conceive.
Three
Random assignment
Personality
15. When do children develop object permanence?
Divergent thinking
Around age two
Stimulus generalization
Allow the skull's plates of bone to shift or flex - making childbirth easier.
16. What does the left half of the brain control?
The right hand - right eye - and speech
Mode
Operant Conditioning
Kohlberg
17. Deaf children will often be more proficient at communicating through _______ than do hearing infants - often being able to sign at ten months old
Noise
Gestures
Authoritative
Multiple caretakers
18. Defense mechanism: you deny your feelings and come up with ways to justify your behavior
Rationalization
Fontanels
Ivan Pavlov
Infertility
19. What is: attraction to both sexes?
Structuralism
Dyscalcula
Psychological Tests
Bisexual
20. What is: a period in a child's development in which he/she is capable of understanding some things but not others
Prenatal development
Stage
Three
In vitro fertilization
21. Time at which most children begin to speak actual words
10-14 months
Positive Correlation
No
Mental health
22. Stage in which a person abides by the law because they think that law is a higher order; laws cannot be broken under any circumstance; social-order-maintaining orientation
More Knowledgeable Other (MKO)
Around age two
Amplitude
Stage 4
23. What is the method in which a variable and constant are use to test theories?
Experimental research
Hippocampus
Convergent thinking
Watching their parents
24. What is: the theory that all people are inherently good and motivated to achieve their full potential
Three percent
Suppression
Humanistic
Carl Rogers
25. Rogers and Maslow are both:
Humanistic Theorists
Gestalt psychology
Modeling
Timbre
26. Also called learning theory - based on the principle of observing and correcting behavior
Pitch
Through actions - doing what you believe is correct
Behaviorism
Laboratory observation
27. The most direct measure of syntax in middle childhood is what?
Sigmund Freud
The meanlinkk of utterance (how long their sentences are)
Preconventional Morality
Anger (Emotion)
28. What is the term for low IQ and mental age of about 4 years old?
Content validity
Retina
Subject
Mentally retarded
29. What is the factor that always stays the same?
Psychiatrist
Constant
Cornea and lens
Positive reinforcer
30. Believed each person had an idea of a 'perfect person' and tried to work towards being like that person as much as possible - believing that people needed to become 'fully functioning' individuals
Timbre
Irritability - social responsiveness - and activity level
Carl Rogers
Nature
31. Level 2 of Kohlberg's Theory of Moral Development includes which stages
Gestalt psychology
3 & 4
Parietal lobe
3-7
32. Level 1 of Kohlberg's Theory of Moral Development
Lens
Accommodation
As soon as the bell was rung
Preconventional Morality
33. What side of the N/N debate means that a child will be born with whatever disposition - tastes - personality they were 'meant' to have; believe that there are bad seeds.
Stage 5
They can be coached into learning a type of test--do better or worse - etc.
Conceive at younger ages
Nature
34. 1 -3 -4 -5 -7 -8 -10 what is the median?
5
Toddler
Gestures
6-12
35. Fourth stage in the Kubler-Ross's Stages of Dying: 'There's nothing I can do about this'
Preparatory Depression
Reinforcer
Smell
Convergent thinking
36. What is the most popular method for giving birth?
Medicated delivery
Humanistic
It measures a child against their peers - in that moment
Reciprocal determinism
37. What is: the tone color or perceptual quality of a sound?
Skin appearance - 'age spots' - hair
Timbre
Nature
Constant
38. Third element: There is a gap between what the child can do with help - and what they can do on their own; shows when a child has finally learned it
Zone of Proximal Development
Obstetrician-gynecologist
Dyscalcula
Cooing
39. Who believed that children's thinking doesn't develop smoothly - but instead certain points where it 'takes off' and transitions into new areas?
Vygotsky
Positive reinforcer
Closure
Jean Piaget
40. Which though process is follower thinking?
Convergent thinking
Safety
Proximodistal
Loudness
41. What is another name for a newborn?
The brain
Schema
Norplant
Neonate
42. What is: a state of mental balance - reconciling new experiences with new understanding
Equilibrium
Young-old
Clinical psychologist
Figurative language
43. Theory that every function in the child's cultural development appears twice: first between people - then inside the child.
Recall
Social development or social cognition
Authoritative
Constant
44. The number which occurs the most often
Creative
Mode
Set high standards - assist along the way
Cerebellum
45. What syndrome is characterized by small stature - poor coordination - hyperactive - learning disabilities - mental retardation - or large head?
Depth perception
10
Fetal Alcohol Syndrome
A will
46. The first experiment of classical conditioning was done by who?
Five
Frequency
Family therapy
Ivan Pavlov
47. What is the term for the death of a child under one year - for no apparent reason?
Laboratory observation
2
Sudden Infant Death Syndrome
Negative reinforcer
48. What is the term for identical twins?
Limbic system
The posterior (back) fontanel: within two months of birth. The anterior (front) fontanel: by the child's 2nd birthday.
Clinical psychologist
Monozygotic twins
49. Self-esteem begins forming in:
Middle childhood
Medicated delivery
Qualitative
Brain and spinal cord
50. When people are followed and studied over a long period of time and checked up on at certain points
Because at birth cells aren't well connected (lacking in myelin - or nerve insulation)
Sound waves
Longitudinal Study
Endocrine system