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DSST Lifespan Developmental Psychology
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1. What is: when adolescents truly believe themselves to be the center of the universe to those around them?
Selective attention
Adolescent Egocentrism
Diaphragm
Rite of Passage
2. Which stage of development is: Autonomy vs. Shame and Doubt (making their own decisions)
Toddler
Wear-and-Tear Theory
Morality of Care
Hollow phrases
3. Children are most likely to achieve if parents:
99%
Babbling
Set high standards - assist along the way
Reaction Formation
4. What two diseases - when caught early in the pregnancy - are most dangerous to the fetus?
Syphillis and rubella
Spiritual - emotional - mental - and social health
Dialectical perspective
It measures a child against their peers - in that moment
5. Which protective brain layer is the strongest and thickest?
Biological
Dura mater
No
Preconventional - conventional - postconventional
6. The most direct measure of syntax in middle childhood is what?
Contextual
Self-concept
Zone of Proximal Development
The meanlinkk of utterance (how long their sentences are)
7. Where nursing care is given meant to maximize the quality of life for someone who is dying
Stage 2
Stage
Gender conservation
Hospice
8. What is caused by one extra chromosome in the number 21?
Appearance - pulse - grimace (reflex) - activity - and respiration
Free morpheme
It measures a child against their peers - in that moment
Down syndrome
9. Pavlovs famous classical conditioning dog experiment.
Bell would ring - then feed the dogs - Dogs would salivate when given food - Over time dogs began to salivate simply at ring of bell
Midwife
Women - men
Cut in half
10. What is: an experienced practitioner who can attend pregnancies and deliveries?
Homosexual
Subjects may be dishonest w/ their answers
Cross-modal perception
Midwife
11. Self-aware - recognized - defined
Self-concept
Six months
Auditory System
Punishment
12. What syndrome happens when a woman smokes while pregnant?
Adrenal glands
Fetal tobacco syndrome
Explicit role instruction
Hurried-child
13. Aside from learning disabilities - what physical problem do Kleinfelter people have?
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14. If you are A positive blood - what is that in terms of Rh factor?
Rh positive
Injections
Positive reinforcer
Parallel play
15. What is being able to reproduce knowledge from memory?
Sound waves
Freud
Stage 3
Recall
16. Does a somatic (body) cell have a full - or half - set of chromosomes?
Full (46)
Dyslexia
Daydreaming
Three percent
17. The awareness of being a male or female
Free morpheme
Gender identity
John Bowlby's Attachment Theory
Ego
18. What is: the process by which a person takes material into their mind from the environment - which may mean changing sensory evidence to make it fit?
Physical needs
Assimilation
Self-report data
Accommodation
19. Why did studies used by Piaget and Freud lead to wrong conclusions?
Operant Conditioning
Mode
They were not scientifically performed
Gender conservation
20. What is the method to find the amount that one variable changes in relation to another?
Denial
Correlational research
Genetic Mutation
Francis Bacon--16th century
21. The scientific study of words and sentences
Semantics
Pavlov; classical conditioning
Functionalism
Class inclusion
22. How was the visual cliff study conducted?
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23. When do the two fontanels harden?
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24. The larger the sample:
Young-old
Infant
The more accurate the result
Retina
25. Which receptor is more sensitive to light - but is not used to view color?
Rods
Kibbutz
Erik Erikson
Middle ear
26. What is: your sense of being a man or woman as defined by society?
Epinephrine and norepinephrine
Old Age
Gender
Dependent variable
27. Where is the pituitary gland located - and how big is it?
Mean
Base of the skull; size of a pea
Celibacy
Morphemes
28. Defense mechanism: transferring your thoughts and feelings onto others
Reciprocal determinism
2
Projection
Oral contraceptives
29. How does the pupil work?
Opens and closes to let the correct amount of light in
Half (23)
Automatic - selective - contextual - and creative
A will
30. All senses report to the thalamus except for one--which?
Experimental group and control group
Adrenal glands
Intestate
Smell
31. Who did the study between stimulus and response with dogs; and what did he discover?
Cut in half
Pavlov; classical conditioning
Abortion
Attention Deficit Disorder and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
32. What is the term for the death of a child under one year - for no apparent reason?
ADHD
Dependent variable
Baby Albert
Sudden Infant Death Syndrome
33. Who founded the Hierarchy of Needs theory?
Negative Correlation
Fetal alcohol syndrome
Modeling
Maslow
34. Used to show links between people - events - actions - behaviors - etc. while not determining the caus - rather is linked to statistics
Endocrine system
Correlation Research
23 pairs
Down syndrome
35. What is: the realization that objects stay the same even when they are made to look different?
Divergent thinking
Toxic shock syndrome
Ageism
Conservation
36. Who created structuralism?
Wilhelm Wundt
Middle-old
Mendel
Longitudinal Study
37. Children that are raised on the Kibbutz are used to study the effects of what?
Depth perception
Id
Multiple caretakers
Gene
38. Rang the bell each time he fed the dog; eventually how early did the dogs start salivating?
Cellular Theory
As soon as the bell was rung
Stillbirth
Monocular cues
39. What is the medical term for birth of a dead baby?
Spiritual - emotional - mental - and social health
Cellular Theory
Stillbirth
Visual cliff
40. Who created the first scientific psychology laboratory?
Women - men
Dyslexia
Intrinsic reinforcer
Wilhelm Wundt
41. How many different theories of language development are there?
Temporal lobe
A will
Laboratory observation
Three
42. What purpose do fontanels have?
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43. What is the main difference between classical and operant conditioning?
Classical conditioning works more to explain reflexive or unconscious reactions - Operant conditioning works to explain elective actions and reactions
Hypothalamus
Full (46)
William James
44. Who believed that children's thinking doesn't develop smoothly - but instead certain points where it 'takes off' and transitions into new areas?
Convergent thinking
Social development or social cognition
Infant
Jean Piaget
45. There are usually two groups in an experiment - titled:
Experimental group and control group
Critical period
Middle-age Adult
Selera
46. What is: focusing attention on a small amount of information?
Lewis Terman
Parallel play
Selective attention
Extinction
47. When people of different ages are studied at one particular time
6
Temporal lobe
Cross Sectional Study
Autoerotic behavior
48. Third stage in the Kubler-Ross's Stages of Dying: 'If you don't die I will do the following...'
Subjects may be dishonest w/ their answers
Bargaining
6-12
Carl Rogers
49. Jean Piaget extensively used which research method to study children?
Denial
Natural observation
Autoimmune Theory
Correlation coefficient
50. Fourth development of language
Parasympathetic
Telegraphic speech
Operant Conditioning
Gender