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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: your thoughts about what gives life purpose--the meaning of life - religion






2. Experiment when none of the doctors - researchers - and participants know who is getting the real drug






3. Which thought process is a creative process?






4. What is: not being involved in a sexual relationship?






5. What are the four components of psychosocial health?






6. Stage in which you do what is right in order to gain status or approval from other people or society; 'good boy-good girl' orientation






7. What is: where the lens changes its curves to help the eye focus?






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






9. After how many cigarettes will the fetus definitely have problems--with a 50% greater risk of childhood cancer?






10. When people are followed and studied over a long period of time and checked up on at certain points






11. What is the name for the bundles of axons - used to communicate between the two halves of brain?






12. What is the part of the ear that includes the oval window - cochlea - and organ of Corti?






13. Usually has a doctoral degree in psychology plus an internship; cannot prescribe medicine.






14. Defense mechanism: feelings are redirected to someone else






15. A higher number of the correlation coefficient closer to the number one shows a:






16. Why is self-report data not as reliable as other research methods?






17. In the Harlow experiment: between the wire monkey+bottle - and cloth monkey+no bottle - which fake mother did the babies prefer?






18. What is the conception alternative where fertilization of the egg is done outside the body - and then transferred back into the body?






19. What part of the central nervous system controls all necessary functions of the body?






20. What is: an M.D. who specializes in OB-GYN?






21. Level 3 of Kohlberg's Theory of Moral Development includes which stages






22. A collection of data from all cases or people in the chosen set






23. 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)






24. What is the name for the 'crack' in the middle of the brain halves?






25. What is: any pill designed to prevent pregnancy?






26. What is the term for fraternal twins?






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






28. What is another term for the system of hearing?






29. People who are working that experience discrimination because of their age - whether too young or too old are victims of what?






30. What is the method of surgical delivery?






31. What are the three different areas of the Autonomic Nervous System?






32. Recent research supports that children learn from listening to their parents talk to them in 'baby talk'; which aspect of language is this?






33. Which of these diseases can cause miscarriage - stillbirth - heart defects - deafness - and other problems?






34. What is: attraction to both sexes?






35. Categories of old age: 65-74






36. Once the disease strikes - an individual w/ Alzheimer's disease usually has their life expectancy is:






37. A communication style in which single words are used to communicate - typical of toddlers learning to speak - for example 'give' or 'mama'. The meaning is still understood even though complete sentences are not used






38. What is: a person's attraction to other people?






39. Defense mechanism: Turning a feeling into the exact opposite feeling






40. The study of the aging process






41. 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






42. The variable in which the researcher has direct control over






43. Observing someone's behavior and basing our own behavior on it






44. What gland releases hormones that regulate hormone secretions of other glands?






45. What is: the theory focused on 'how' of behavior; minds are a continuous flow of information about experiences - and role is to study the mind/behavior as they adapt to the environment






46. Gilligan believed that ________ conflicted between self and other - while ________ conflicted between self and justice






47. According to both Kohlberg and Piaget - the most immature reason to do something is to:






48. What is: the period of sexual maturation?






49. What are the different types of caregivers for pregnancy?






50. Biological theories of aging: like everything else in the world - the human body wears out