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DSST Lifespan Developmental Psychology

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1. What is the name for depth perception cues made with one eye?
Injections
Monocular cues
Survey
Noise

2. Time at which most children begin to speak actual words
Prenatal development
10-14 months
Full (46)
Cephalocaudal

3. Used to show links between people - events - actions - behaviors - etc. while not determining the caus - rather is linked to statistics
Bandura
Cerebral cortex
Bias
Correlation Research

4. How do you fix the problem of mother's cells attacking the baby's?
Wilhelm Wundt
Phenylketonuria (PKU)
Gene
Injections

5. What is: method of contraception by having no direct contact with partner's genitals?
Morality of Justice
Telegraphic speech
Abstinence
Infant

6. What disorder causes a person to have difficulty concentration - be easily distracted - or constantly in motion?
Hippocampus
Middle ear
John Bowlby's Attachment Theory
ADHD

7. What is the chance of having a boy or girl - according to Mendel's experiments in genetics?
50%
Fetal alcohol syndrome
Occipital - temporal - frontal - and parietal.
It measures a child against their peers - in that moment

8. What is: when adolescents truly believe themselves to be the center of the universe to those around them?
Explicit role instruction
As they age
Super Ego
Adolescent Egocentrism

9. Theory by Bandura; the interaction of a person's personality - the environment - and the behavior.
90%
Brain and spinal cord
Dependent variable
Reciprocal determinism

10. What is a sometimes-fatal disease occuring from the excessive use of tampons - or leaving a diaphragm in - for longer than prescribed time?
Id - Ego - Super Ego
Self-actualization
Egocentrism
Toxic shock syndrome

11. Whatmakes a person able to see objects are they are - in 3 dimensions?
Half (23)
Depth perception
Social aspect of language
Super Ego

12. What is: the difference made to one's mind by the process of assimilation?
Stage 3
Accommodation
Iris
Social health

13. What is the chance of a baby having PKU?
1 in 14 -000
Cephalocaudal and Proximodistal
Unoccupied behavior - onlooker - solitary independent (plays alone) - parallel play (plays around but not w/ others) - associative - cooperative play
Self-efficacy

14. The best way to teach children values is?
Authoritative
Down syndrome
Left hand - left eye - and simple comprehension
Through actions - doing what you believe is correct

15. Children learn and form their conscience and thoughts of what is acceptable behavior from what?
Wilhelm Wundt
Heterosexual
Endocrine system
Watching their parents

16. Usually has a doctoral degree in psychology plus an internship; cannot prescribe medicine.
Clinical psychologist
Independent variable
Cerebral palsy
Telegraphic speech

17. 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
Autoimmune Theory
Resilient child
Fetal death

18. Does a gamete (reproductive) cell have full or half set of chromosomes?
Half (23)
Sudden Infant Death Syndrome
Social learning theory
Functionalism

19. Deaf children will often be more proficient at communicating through _______ than do hearing infants - often being able to sign at ten months old
Spiritual health
Slowed growth - body/face malfunctions - nervous system disorders - mental retardation.
Gestures
Resilient child

20. What is: expression of your maleness or femaleness on a daily basis?
Mental health
Quantitative
Gender roles
Phonemes

21. What is: a progesterone shot given every three months?
Depo-Provera
Cross-modal perception
On chromosomes
10-14 months

22. Defense mechanism: feelings are redirected to someone else
Syphillis and rubella
Gender
Displacement
B.F. Skinner

23. Which stage of development is: Industry vs. Inferiority? (working with others)
School-age Child
Ivan Pavlov
Positive reinforcer
Authoritative

24. Where a group of people live together and the children of all the people are raised by one or two people
Kibbutz
Valid
Egocentric behavior
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

25. In children babbling begins around age _____ - while in deaf infants babbling usually begins around several months later
Conceive at younger ages
Six or seven months
Epinephrine and norepinephrine
Corpus callosum

26. What attention disorders also interfere with the learning process?
Gentle birth
Attention Deficit Disorder and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
Put babies on their backs to sleep - and not have anything extra (toys - pillows etc) in the bed or crib.
Independent variable

27. Who argued that if psychology was a true science - then psychologists should only study what they could see and measure (behaviorist theory)?
Placebo effect
Recognition
Retina
John Watson

28. A correlation coefficient of zero
No correlation
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
Rubella
Not fully developed; but can distinguish color - track movement - and bright objects.

29. What is: growth from the center (spine) outward - where vital organs form before the extremities?
Fetal Alcohol Syndrome
Structuralism
School-age Child
Proximodistal

30. A higher number of the correlation coefficient closer to the number one shows a:
Strong correlation
Structuralism
Gender
Clinical psychologist

31. What is: relating new information to something familiar
The penis doesn't grow and breasts may develop.
Pituitary gland
Elaboration
Alfred Binet

32. Children that are raised on the Kibbutz are used to study the effects of what?
Classical conditioning
Gene
23 pairs
Multiple caretakers

33. What is: growth from the head downward (head develops before rest of the body)?
Frontal lobe
Zone of Proximal Development
Temporal lobe
Cephalocaudal

34. The repetition of certain syllables
Baby Albert
Alternative - or artificial - insemination
Structuralism
Babbling

35. What is the term for identical twins?
Ethics
Monozygotic twins
Dialectical perspective
Carl Rogers

36. Parenting styles: makes few demands - hardly ever punishes
They were not scientifically performed
Acceptance
Permissive
Infertility

37. How is IQ calculated?
Bell would ring - then feed the dogs - Dogs would salivate when given food - Over time dogs began to salivate simply at ring of bell
Gestures
99%
Mental age/Chronological age - x 100

38. What types of drugs can hurt a developing fetus if taken by the mother?
Base of the skull; size of a pea
All drugs - including over the counter - aspirin - coffee
Smell
Gestures

39. Experiment when none of the doctors - researchers - and participants know who is getting the real drug
Double blind
Raymond Cattell
Oral contraceptives
Alzheimer's Disease

40. How much is hearing developed in neonates?
Independent variable
Mostly developed by the time of birth
Gender conservation
Perception

41. Which protective brain layer is the strongest and thickest?
Preoperational stage (ages 3-6)
Experimental research
Dura mater
Obstetrician-gynecologist

42. What are the four stages of sexual response?
Occipital - temporal - frontal - and parietal.
Appearance - pulse - grimace (reflex) - activity - and respiration
Hypothalamus
Excitement - plateau - orgasm - and resolution phases

43. How many different theories of language development are there?
Condom
Fetal alcohol syndrome
Cochlea
Three

44. What is the main relay station for incoming sensory signals to the cerebral cortex - and outgoing motor signals from it?
Projection
Thalamus
Pitch
Prenatal development

45. Age at which most children will identify specific 'best-friends'
Cellular Theory
10
Ego
Bargaining

46. A system which uses operant conditioning to make less probable actions more likely to occur by using more probable actions as reinforcers
Epinephrine and norepinephrine
Socialization
The Premack Principle
Experimental research

47. 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)
Sexually transmitted diseases
Authoritarian
Family therapy
Operation

48. What are the two parts responsible for bending light and focusing it in the back of the eye?
Cornea and lens
Clinical psychologist
Intrinsic reinforcer
Sterilization

49. Which lobe is related to hearing?
Temporal lobe
Parallel play
Cesarean birth
Selera

50. Stage in which a person abides by the law because they think that law is a higher order; laws cannot be broken under any circumstance; social-order-maintaining orientation
Fluid intelligence
Stage 4
Slowed growth - body/face malfunctions - nervous system disorders - mental retardation.
If the mom and child have different blood types - the mom's cells can attack the baby.