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DSST Lifespan Developmental Psychology

Subjects : dsst, psychology
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. What is: the tone color or perceptual quality of a sound?






2. What sends commands to all other parts of the body?






3. What is the term for identical twins?






4. What is the method to find the amount that one variable changes in relation to another?






5. When can a person's short term memory become incapacitated?






6. How do you fix the problem of mother's cells attacking the baby's?






7. What are: vibrations in the air that we receive through the ear to be processed?






8. What is the conception alternative where semen is deposited into the body via a thin tube?






9. Environment in which two (or more) children sit side by side - or near each other - and play without interacting with the other child or trying to influence them in any way. Most children engage in this type of enviornment.






10. What is the medical term for birth of a dead baby?






11. Second element: The presence of someone who knows more in an area - like a parent - teacher - coach - etc.?






12. Something used to make a behavior less likely to occur - can be positive or negative






13. What disorder causes a person to have difficulty concentration - be easily distracted - or constantly in motion?






14. What is: another form of consciousness involving very little effort; dreaming while awake or letting the mind wander?






15. Which thought process is a creative process?






16. Which stage of development is: Industry vs. Inferiority? (working with others)






17. A correlation coefficient of zero






18. What is: when the mother consumes alcohol while her babies are in the womb?






19. What is the variable that the experimenter controls?






20. What are the three things to monitor - to measure temperament in infants?






21. What is: the moment an ovum/egg is fertilized by sperm?






22. In children babbling begins around age _____ - while in deaf infants babbling usually begins around several months later






23. What is the main difference between classical and operant conditioning?






24. Level 1 of Kohlberg's Theory of Moral Development






25. Those who are mentally retarded are least likely to also have WHAT condition?






26. What section of the nervous system is responsible for the 'fight or flight' response?






27. What are the three parts of memory?






28. Parenting styles: 'because I say so'--more prevalent in lower-class families






29. A signal to society that certain rules have changed - this person is no longer a child






30. What does STDs stand for - including AIDS and herpes?






31. 1 -2 -2 -2 -3 -3 -5 -8 -9 -9. What is the mode?






32. Id - Ego - and Super Ego were all founded by who?






33. What is being able to reproduce knowledge from memory?






34. When one variable increase - another variable increases. We call this a what?






35. Parenting styles: respects individually - but tries to instill social values






36. Children that are raised on the Kibbutz are used to study the effects of what?






37. How does the pupil work?






38. Used to show links between people - events - actions - behaviors - etc. while not determining the caus - rather is linked to statistics






39. If a test measures what is meant to measure it is considered what?






40. Stereotypes in genders; boys play with trucks and girls wear makeup - etc.






41. What is the most extreme outcome of a woman drinking during her pregnancy?






42. 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)






43. Not physical abuse but when the child feels rejected or feels failure






44. How much are the eyes developed in newborns?






45. What percentage of children are affected by hyperactivity?






46. Deaf children will often be more proficient at communicating through _______ than do hearing infants - often being able to sign at ten months old






47. What is the approach that assumes people organize their perceptions by patterns?






48. What does the right half of the brain control?






49. A term used to describe something similar in structure or organization






50. What houses memories and controls our responses to different sensory signals?