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DSST Lifespan Developmental Psychology
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1. Biological theories of aging: we only have a certain number of cells - which are programmed to only replicate so many times before they are finished and the body begins to deteriorate
Cellular Theory
Gentle birth
Down syndrome
Stage 6
2. What are the four areas of taste that taste-buds recognize?
Stage 4
Mode
Sweet - bitter - salty - sour
Psychological Tests
3. In a kibbutz - the real parents of children may see them for one hour a day - a time referred to as the __________.
Heterosexual
Egocentrism
Hour of love
Down syndrome
4. How much alcohol is the safe amount to consume during pregnancy?
Bound morpheme
Left hand - left eye - and simple comprehension
Sexual identity
None!!
5. Which thought process is: many ideas are brainstormed to explore many possible solutions; used in creative settings?
Invincibility fable
Divergent thinking
Social health
Stage 2
6. What is the name of the scientist known as the father of genetics and inheritance?
Fontanels
Sexual orientation
The infant wants to be in proximity of the person who cares for them as a form of self-preservation. If a child feels that their caregiver is nearby and attentive - they feel confident to explore their surroundings. If not - they feel anxious and ove
Mendel
7. What is: a state of mental balance - reconciling new experiences with new understanding
Figurative language
Cut in half
Mean
Equilibrium
8. What are the two directions of growth in the embryo?
Put babies on their backs to sleep - and not have anything extra (toys - pillows etc) in the bed or crib.
Short attention span
Spiritual health
Cephalocaudal and Proximodistal
9. 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)
It measures a child against their peers - in that moment
Operation
Abstinence
Kohlberg
10. What are: the principles and standards of behavior - including morals; right/wrong and having one's actions correlate with their beliefs
Ethics
William James
Old-old
Telegraphic speech
11. What syndrome is characterized by small stature - poor coordination - hyperactive - learning disabilities - mental retardation - or large head?
Midwife
Childhood depression
Biological
Fetal Alcohol Syndrome
12. What are the four characteristics of perception?
Automatic - selective - contextual - and creative
Opens and closes to let the correct amount of light in
Emotional health
Frontal lobe
13. Dying w/o a will
The meanlinkk of utterance (how long their sentences are)
Safety
Denial (Shock)
Intestate
14. What is the middle number in a set of data called?
Median
Have more bland personalities and often difficult for them to create and maintain intimate relationships as they have a lack of emotional depth
Cesarean birth
Selera
15. Which though process is follower thinking?
The more accurate the result
On chromosomes
Convergent thinking
Sound waves
16. Stages of friendship: autonomous - interdependent
IUD
Family situation - the world around you - lifespan - and maturity.
Psychological maltreatment
12+
17. All other variables w/in an experiment that researchers do not have control over
Because at birth cells aren't well connected (lacking in myelin - or nerve insulation)
Denial
Dependent variable
If the mom and child have different blood types - the mom's cells can attack the baby.
18. What is the simple type of learning for getting used to something?
Watching their parents
Habituation
Fetal alcohol syndrome
Endocrine system
19. Which lobe is related to voluntary muscles and intelligence?
Obstetrician-gynecologist - family practitioner - or midwife
Frontal lobe
B.F. Skinner
Rationalization
20. All senses report to the thalamus except for one--which?
Selera
Suppression
Mentally retarded
Smell
21. What is the method of surgical delivery?
Cesarean birth
Self-esteem
Intrinsic reinforcer
Spiritual - emotional - mental - and social health
22. Those who are mentally retarded are least likely to also have WHAT condition?
Drugs - diseases (like HIV - rubella) - and pollutants (mercury - radiation - etc)
Cerebral palsy
The skull - dura mater membrane - arachnoid layer - and pia mater.
Sound waves
23. A morpheme that can be a word on its own
Free morpheme
Sampling
Stillbirth
Elaboration
24. Types of child play in chronological order:
Pia mater
Conservation
Unoccupied behavior - onlooker - solitary independent (plays alone) - parallel play (plays around but not w/ others) - associative - cooperative play
4
25. Biological theories of aging: the number of cells that have problems or mutations that increase w/ age
Echolalia
Dyslexia
Informed consent
Genetic Mutation
26. Fourth development of language
Assimilation
Weak correlation
Autoimmune Theory
Telegraphic speech
27. Believing women followed a different progression than men - she called the moral progression of the woman what?
Brain and spinal cord
Middle-age Adult
Skin appearance - 'age spots' - hair
Morality of Care
28. 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
Functionalism
Perception
Selective
Endocrine system
29. What is: sexual self-stimulation or masturbation?
Autoerotic behavior
Stage
Crystallized intelligence
Emotional health
30. Who argued that classical conditioning explains some behaviors - but operant conditioning plays a much larger role?
The penis doesn't grow and breasts may develop.
B.F. Skinner
Rods
Short attention span
31. What are the factors that influence psychosocial health?
Kohlberg
Ferdinand Lamaze
Family situation - the world around you - lifespan - and maturity.
Recall
32. What percent of children in kindergarten are immunized?
Independent variable
Authoritarian
Jean Piaget
99%
33. Where nursing care is given meant to maximize the quality of life for someone who is dying
Hospice
Projection
Parasympathetic
Around age two
34. Which receptor is used for color vision?
Stage 6
Dyslexia
Autoimmune Theory
Cones
35. 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.
Accommodation
Parallel play
Recall
Olfactory epithelium
36. When do the two fontanels harden?
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37. Age at which children begin to share their toys and interact w/ one another - associative play
Stimulus generalization
Dialectical perspective
3
Brain and spinal cord
38. How is IQ calculated?
Mental age/Chronological age - x 100
Sympathetic nervous system
Auditory System
Nurture
39. Which stage of development is: Initiative vs. Guilt? (trying different roles)
Preschooler
Puberty
Mode
Psychoanalytical
40. The name most associated with operant conditioning is who?
Stage 5
Cesarean birth
Longitudinal fissure
B.F. Skinner
41. What is: the theory focused on the individual's unconscious motivations?
Rite of Passage
Psychoanalytical
Psychological Tests
Assimilation
42. What is: when a child can't be conceived via the usual method?
Infertility
Best friend
Functionalism
Resilient child
43. What is the most dangerous trimester for the fetus (in regard to drug/alcohol use)?
Fetal death
On chromosomes
First trimester
Convergent thinking
44. Children are most likely to achieve if parents:
Mostly developed by the time of birth
Set high standards - assist along the way
Biological
Fit in
45. 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
Stage 3
Genetic Mutation
Gestalt psychology
Allow the skull's plates of bone to shift or flex - making childbirth easier.
46. What is: hatred and fear of homosexuals?
Alternative - or artificial - insemination
Sudden Infant Death Syndrome
Homophobia
Reciprocal determinism
47. What is the term for the death of a child under one year - for no apparent reason?
Egocentrism
Sudden Infant Death Syndrome
Retina
Sigmund Freud
48. Stage in which you see the right action as what satisfies your personal needs; a person becomes aware of two different viewpoints
If the mom and child have different blood types - the mom's cells can attack the baby.
Stage 2
Cerebral cortex
3-7
49. What is the chance of having a boy or girl - according to Mendel's experiments in genetics?
You need two - one from each parent - to conceive.
50%
Figurative language
Parietal lobe
50. Age at which most children will identify specific 'best-friends'
10
Cross-modal perception
Zygote
Family situation - the world around you - lifespan - and maturity.