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DSST Lifespan Developmental Psychology
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1. If you are A positive blood - what is that in terms of Rh factor?
Consciousness
Biological; Behavioral; Cognitive; Humanistic; Psychoanalytical; Structuralism; Functionalism; Nature vs. Nurture
Rh positive
Longitudinal Study
2. The final stage of Maslow's Hierarchy of needs. A stage you may never actually meet.
Have more bland personalities and often difficult for them to create and maintain intimate relationships as they have a lack of emotional depth
Cochlea
Pitch
Self-actualization
3. What is: the theory based on biology; belief that behavior and personality are linked to genetics
Biological
Multiple caretakers
Vestibular sense
Daydreaming
4. Stages of friendship: Momentary playmates
Down syndrome
3-7
Experimental group and control group
Gender roles
5. What is: sheath of thin latex designed to catch sperm upon ejaculation?
Condom
Gonads
Cerebral anoxia
The brain/the cerebral cortex
6. A child that is always in a hurry
Preparatory Depression
Hurried-child
Adolescent
Mental health
7. What is another name for a sound wave's amplitude?
Sudden Infant Death Syndrome
Teratology
Long labors or birth complications
Loudness
8. What is: when a child can't be conceived via the usual method?
Infertility
Divergent thinkers
Pituitary gland
The more accurate the result
9. Which lobe is related to vision?
Id
Celibacy
Occipital lobe
Appearance - pulse - grimace (reflex) - activity - and respiration
10. Second element: The presence of someone who knows more in an area - like a parent - teacher - coach - etc.?
More Knowledgeable Other (MKO)
Bias
Three
Stimulus generalization
11. What is: a person's attraction to other people?
4-9
Infant
Sexual orientation
Stimulus generalization
12. The ethical component of the personality and provides the moral standards by which the ego operates
Parallel play
Super Ego
Dyslexia
Raymond Cattell
13. Parenting styles: respects individually - but tries to instill social values
Authoritative
True
Amniocentesis
Temporal lobe
14. Four steps of the scientific method include:
1) Gather info - 2) Generate hypothesis - 3) Test hypothesis - 4) Revise
Negative Correlation
Cerebral anoxia
Mental health
15. Level 1 of Kohlberg's Theory of Moral Development includes which stages
1 & 2
Proximodistal
Chomsky
Biological
16. What is the name for minimum amount of something we can detect or sense?
Thalamus
Sexually transmitted diseases
...
Absolute threshold
17. What syndrome occurs when someone two X and one Y chromosome...and what gender does this make?
Recognition
Have more bland personalities and often difficult for them to create and maintain intimate relationships as they have a lack of emotional depth
Kleinfelter Syndrome; male
50%
18. A link between a stimulus and a response in which a person or animal associates or substitutes a neutral stimulus with the actual stimulus
Subject
Gender role stereotypes
Chomsky
Classical conditioning
19. If a test measures what is meant to measure it is considered what?
Valid
Ivan Pavlov
9-15
Critical period
20. Stages of friendship: one way assistance
4-9
Not fully developed; but can distinguish color - track movement - and bright objects.
Half (23)
Puberty
21. There are usually two groups in an experiment - titled:
Rubella
Dependent variable
Experimental group and control group
Family therapy
22. The average of a data set
Stage 5
Functionalism
Inner ear
Mean
23. Children that are raised on the Kibbutz are used to study the effects of what?
Virginia Apgar - or Apgar Rating
Survey
Middle ear
Multiple caretakers
24. What is a disease also called German measles?
Consciousness
Rubella
Autoerotic behavior
Explicit role instruction
25. What is a common learning disability in reading?
Dyslexia
Classical conditioning
Socialization
Stage 5
26. Age at which most children will identify specific 'best-friends'
Gestures
John Watson
Outer ear
10
27. What is a sometimes-fatal disease occuring from the excessive use of tampons - or leaving a diaphragm in - for longer than prescribed time?
Fetal death
Cognitive improvement
Nurture
Toxic shock syndrome
28. First development of language; pre-speech
Dialectical perspective
Cooing
Bias
Automatic
29. Third stage in the Kubler-Ross's Stages of Dying: 'If you don't die I will do the following...'
Id - Ego - Super Ego
Bargaining
Olfactory epithelium
4-9
30. Defense mechanism: a type of displacement - a redirection of the feeling into a socially productive activity
Id
Sublimation
Create and release chemicals into the blood
Punishment
31. What gland releases hormones that regulate hormone secretions of other glands?
Self-report data
Displacement
Modeling
Pituitary gland
32. Fourth stage in the Kubler-Ross's Stages of Dying: 'There's nothing I can do about this'
Preparatory Depression
Mostly developed by the time of birth
As they age
Iris
33. What is: the gland that controls release of hormones from the gonads?
The brain/the cerebral cortex
Cognitive theorist
Pituitary gland
1 in 14 -000
34. When something from conditioning carries over to another related area; made baby Albert afraid of all furry animals - rather than just rats
Explicit role instruction
Stimulus generalization
Parallel play
Adolescent Egocentrism
35. What is: long lasting contraceptive where six capsules are injected in a woman's arm?
Intrinsic reinforcer
Temporal lobe
Norplant
Displacement
36. What is the main relay station for incoming sensory signals to the cerebral cortex - and outgoing motor signals from it?
Mental age/Chronological age - x 100
Behaviorism
Adolescent
Thalamus
37. Children that are raised on the Kibbutz will often:
Middle childhood
Have more bland personalities and often difficult for them to create and maintain intimate relationships as they have a lack of emotional depth
Binocular cues
Semantics
38. What is the name for the 'crack' in the middle of the brain halves?
Longitudinal fissure
Sublimation
23 pairs
Id
39. A system which uses operant conditioning to make less probable actions more likely to occur by using more probable actions as reinforcers
The Premack Principle
Retina
Morphemes
Multiple caretakers
40. Who taught women breathing procedures to get through childbirth - including panting?
Set high standards - assist along the way
Preconventional - conventional - postconventional
Dependent variable
Ferdinand Lamaze
41. A correlation coefficient of zero
No correlation
Limbic system
Personality
Autoimmune Theory
42. 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.
Parallel play
Left hand - left eye - and simple comprehension
1 & 2
Parasympathetic
43. What are: general term for the reproductive organs in a male or female?
Biological
Gender
Limbic system
Gonads
44. What is the opening of the iris - which looks black?
Smell
Visual cliff
Sound waves
Pupil
45. What is the name for depth perception cues made with both eyes?
Binocular cues
Preschooler
Have more bland personalities and often difficult for them to create and maintain intimate relationships as they have a lack of emotional depth
Cones
46. What is: the bumps on top of the tongue that contain taste buds?
Consciousness
Papillae
Natural observation
Recognition
47. Which stage of development is: Intimacy vs. Isolation? (emotional ties with others)
Monocular cues
Young Adult
Through actions - doing what you believe is correct
...
48. What are the 8 psychological approaches?
Accommodation
Humanistic Theorists
Biological; Behavioral; Cognitive; Humanistic; Psychoanalytical; Structuralism; Functionalism; Nature vs. Nurture
Selera
49. What is: when a sample is taken from the fluid in the amniotic sac - to be tested for diseases or genetic traits?
Operant conditioning
Amniocentesis
A will
Elaboration
50. A chronic condition that deteriorates the nerve fibers in the brain controlling memory - speech - and personality. Early symptoms including personality changes - lack of interest in activities - and change in sleep patterns.
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