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DSST Lifespan Developmental Psychology
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1. There are usually two groups in an experiment - titled:
Experimental group and control group
Free morpheme
Psychoanalytical
Sigmund Freud
2. What is: growth from the center (spine) outward - where vital organs form before the extremities?
Proximodistal
Skin appearance - 'age spots' - hair
Teratology
Vestibular sense
3. Which lobe is related to voluntary muscles and intelligence?
ADHD
Frontal lobe
Medicated delivery
Semantics
4. What is: a state of mental balance - reconciling new experiences with new understanding
Reciprocal determinism
Cognitive theorist
Three
Equilibrium
5. A method of modifying behavior - by ignoring the behavior so you don't have the response
4
Sympathetic - parasympathetic - and enteric
Response extinction
As they age
6. When a participant starts to feel the effects of the drug but is actually taking a sugar pill or placebo
The skull - dura mater membrane - arachnoid layer - and pia mater.
Placebo effect
Content validity
Spermicides
7. What syndrome occurs when someone two X and one Y chromosome...and what gender does this make?
Kleinfelter Syndrome; male
Explicit role instruction
Humanistic
Vygotsky
8. Jean Piaget extensively used which research method to study children?
2
Bisexual
Natural observation
Figurative language
9. What is: the understanding of more advanced classification; that some sets are also sub-sets of a larger class?
Classification
10
Class inclusion
3-7
10. What is: term for how much someone values and respects themselves?
Self-esteem
Babbling
3
Sexually transmitted diseases
11. Piaget believed that the individual actively constructs knowledge about the world--what is the term for this?
Set high standards - assist along the way
Morality of Care
Cognitive theorist
Occipital - temporal - frontal - and parietal.
12. A way of obtaining information about a specific type of information in which questionnaires are given out to participants who are then asked to answer the questions to the best of their ability
Survey
Spiritual health
Gender
Amplitude
13. What is the conception alternative where fertilization of the egg is done outside the body - and then transferred back into the body?
Family practitioner
In vitro fertilization
Cognitive
Double blind
14. What is: the theory centered on studying how the mind is involved in knowing - learning - remembering - thinking; study how the mind relates to behavior
Ferdinand Lamaze
2
Developmental norm
Cognitive
15. What is: the tone color or perceptual quality of a sound?
Appearance - pulse - grimace (reflex) - activity - and respiration
Neonate
Denial (Shock)
Timbre
16. Does a gamete (reproductive) cell have full or half set of chromosomes?
Depth perception
Half (23)
Self-efficacy
A census
17. Children are most likely to achieve if parents:
Endocrine system
Set high standards - assist along the way
Encoding the information - represnting the information - and retrieving information from memory.
Kubler-Ross's Stages of Dying
18. What is: your interactions with others in social situations
Cognitive
Social health
Obstetrician-gynecologist - family practitioner - or midwife
Median
19. What is: when a sample is taken from the fluid in the amniotic sac - to be tested for diseases or genetic traits?
Opens and closes to let the correct amount of light in
The posterior (back) fontanel: within two months of birth. The anterior (front) fontanel: by the child's 2nd birthday.
Irritability - social responsiveness - and activity level
Amniocentesis
20. Stages of friendship: intimate
Stage 5
Super Ego
9-15
Crystallized intelligence
21. When someone sees an incomplete form - they fill in the pieces and perceive it as it would be that way. What Gestalt principle is this an example of?
Three percent
Closure
Cerebrum
Frequency
22. What is when the baby is born in a pool or bath with dim lights?
Injections
Gentle birth
Long labors or birth complications
The skull - dura mater membrane - arachnoid layer - and pia mater.
23. Time at which most children begin to speak actual words
Smell
Morphemes
Chomsky
10-14 months
24. What are: the principles and standards of behavior - including morals; right/wrong and having one's actions correlate with their beliefs
Middle-old
Ethics
Gender
Unoccupied behavior - onlooker - solitary independent (plays alone) - parallel play (plays around but not w/ others) - associative - cooperative play
25. The repetition of certain syllables
Babbling
Middle ear
Hospice
Denial
26. After how many cigarettes will the fetus definitely have problems--with a 50% greater risk of childhood cancer?
Closure
Five
Contraception
Hour of love
27. What are the factors that influence psychosocial health?
Equilibrium
Young Adult
Mostly developed by the time of birth
Family situation - the world around you - lifespan - and maturity.
28. Defense mechanism: transferring your thoughts and feelings onto others
Projection
Psychological maltreatment
Toxic shock syndrome
Unoccupied behavior - onlooker - solitary independent (plays alone) - parallel play (plays around but not w/ others) - associative - cooperative play
29. Why is self-report data not as reliable as other research methods?
Subjects may be dishonest w/ their answers
Puberty
Erogenous zones
Olfactory sense
30. What is the chance of a baby having PKU?
Corpus callosum
1 in 14 -000
Psychoanalytic theory
Appearance - pulse - grimace (reflex) - activity - and respiration
31. Who created the first scientific psychology laboratory?
Proximodistal
3 & 4
Reinforcer
Wilhelm Wundt
32. Gifted children often hide gifts to ______.
Figurative language
Fit in
Gender identity
Recognition
33. What is: the most developed - and largest (80%) - part of the brain?
Up to 6 months of observation by doctors
The posterior (back) fontanel: within two months of birth. The anterior (front) fontanel: by the child's 2nd birthday.
Cerebral cortex
Irritability - social responsiveness - and activity level
34. What do physicians recommend to prevent SIDS?
Put babies on their backs to sleep - and not have anything extra (toys - pillows etc) in the bed or crib.
Occipital - temporal - frontal - and parietal.
Conservation
Bargaining
35. What are: general term for the reproductive organs in a male or female?
Social learning theory
Chomsky
The brain
Gonads
36. Categories of old age: 65-74
Retina
Stage 6
Young-old
Extrinsic reinforcer
37. Defense mechanism: feelings are redirected to someone else
Safety
3-7
Three percent
Displacement
38. Which stage of development is: Initiative vs. Guilt? (trying different roles)
Preschooler
Occipital lobe
Contextual
Social health
39. Stage in which a person is concerned w/ how their action might affect society; the social contract orientation
Gestalt psychology
Stage 5
Hour of love
Epinephrine and norepinephrine
40. What is the name for minimum amount of something we can detect or sense?
Absolute threshold
Vestibular sense
Negative reinforcer
Egocentric behavior
41. Once the disease strikes - an individual w/ Alzheimer's disease usually has their life expectancy is:
Habituation
Nature
Cut in half
Down syndrome
42. What is: irrelevant stimuli that compete for our attention (like traffic)
Condom
Noise
Carl Rogers
Self-esteem
43. The distortion of the results
Bias
Miscarriages or stillbirths
Automatic
Daydreaming
44. Used to show links between people - events - actions - behaviors - etc. while not determining the caus - rather is linked to statistics
Correlation Research
Chomsky
Recall
Humanistic Theorists
45. A morpheme that must be w/ a word
Strong correlation
Wear-and-Tear Theory
Bound morpheme
Preschooler
46. What is: the amount of pressure produced by a sound wave - measured in decibels?
Gender identity
Amplitude
Assimilation
Classical conditioning
47. Who argued that classical conditioning explains some behaviors - but operant conditioning plays a much larger role?
Toddler
Sexual orientation
Automatic - selective - contextual - and creative
B.F. Skinner
48. In a child - can be expressed as 'nobody likes me'
Syphillis and rubella
Childhood depression
Independent variable
Excitement - plateau - orgasm - and resolution phases
49. Biological theories of aging: the number of cells that have problems or mutations that increase w/ age
Stimulus generalization
Infants were placed on a solid - opaque surface - and the mothers were placed at the end of the table - where the opaque ended and glass begun. The infants didn't want to cross the glass because they could see the distance between themselves and the
Genetic Mutation
Automatic - selective - contextual - and creative
50. A collection of data from all cases or people in the chosen set
Selective
A census
B.F. Skinner
Hypokinetic diseases