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DSST Lifespan Developmental Psychology
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Who was the psychoanalyst who documented stages of emotional growth in regards to babies?
Intrinsic reinforcer
Experimental research
Erik Erikson
Wilhelm Wundt
2. When one variable increase - another variable increases. We call this a what?
Crystallized intelligence
10
Positive Correlation
Conservation
3. Defense mechanism: feelings are redirected to someone else
Crystallized intelligence
Displacement
William James
Experimental research
4. What is the term for lack of responsiveness to other people?
Fetal death
Fluid intelligence
Family situation - the world around you - lifespan - and maturity.
Autism
5. In a kibbutz - the real parents of children may see them for one hour a day - a time referred to as the __________.
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
Oral contraceptives
Longitudinal fissure
Hour of love
6. Biological theories of aging: like everything else in the world - the human body wears out
Emotional health
Emotional neglect
Wear-and-Tear Theory
Gender role stereotypes
7. 1 -3 -4 -5 -7 -8 -10 what is the median?
Monozygotic twins
5
Vestibular sense
Creative
8. What is: when a sample is taken from the fluid in the amniotic sac - to be tested for diseases or genetic traits?
Classical conditioning
Frontal lobe
Consciousness
Amniocentesis
9. Children learn and form their conscience and thoughts of what is acceptable behavior from what?
Longitudinal fissure
Preconventional - conventional - postconventional
Watching their parents
Cerebellum
10. Gifted children often hide gifts to ______.
Independent variable
Fit in
Extrinsic reinforcer
Mental health
11. What is the method in which a variable and constant are use to test theories?
Intrinsic reinforcer
5
Experimental research
Hour of love
12. What are: the principles and standards of behavior - including morals; right/wrong and having one's actions correlate with their beliefs
Fetal tobacco syndrome
Morality of Justice
Norplant
Ethics
13. If you are A positive blood - what is that in terms of Rh factor?
Rh positive
5 & 6
Self-efficacy
Correlation Research
14. A lower number of the correlation coefficient - closer to the number zero shows a:
Automatic
Weak correlation
Freud
Occipital lobe
15. What is: when the mother consumes alcohol while her babies are in the womb?
Fetal alcohol syndrome
Nature
Sexually transmitted diseases
Baby Albert
16. What is: T-shaped device implanted in uterus by a physician for five to ten years at a time?
Wear-and-Tear Theory
IUD
Spiritual health
Permissive
17. What is the term to describe the thinking part of health?
John Bowlby's Attachment Theory
Mental health
Harry Harlow
5
18. Which lobe is related to vision?
Occipital lobe
Carl Rogers
Cross Sectional Study
Holophrase syntax
19. We smell when airborne molecules of an odor reach tiny receptor cells in the top of the nasal cavity; what is the name of this receptor area?
Olfactory epithelium
Francis Bacon--16th century
Perception
Self-actualization - Esteem needs - Belonging and love - Safety - Physical needs
20. What is: a progesterone shot given every three months?
Condom
Experimental research
Depo-Provera
Because at birth cells aren't well connected (lacking in myelin - or nerve insulation)
21. What is the name for the awareness of external and internal events?
Old-old
Consciousness
Opens and closes to let the correct amount of light in
Obstetrician-gynecologist - family practitioner - or midwife
22. A reinforcer that is physical (tangible) or from the environment - like payment for work - or a prize
Extrinsic reinforcer
Occipital lobe
Informed consent
Egocentric behavior
23. Who made the first IQ test?
Infertility
Family therapy
Convergent thinking
Alfred Binet
24. How does the pupil work?
Loudness
Opens and closes to let the correct amount of light in
Preoperational stage (ages 3-6)
Crystallized intelligence
25. Types of child play in chronological order:
Erik Erikson
Unoccupied behavior - onlooker - solitary independent (plays alone) - parallel play (plays around but not w/ others) - associative - cooperative play
Humanistic Theorists
Not fully developed; but can distinguish color - track movement - and bright objects.
26. Time at which most children begin to speak actual words
Fluid intelligence and crystal intelligence
Laboratory observation
Raymond Cattell
10-14 months
27. Why are IQ scores only accurate for short periods of time?
It measures a child against their peers - in that moment
Wear-and-Tear Theory
Fetal Alcohol Syndrome
Set high standards - assist along the way
28. Whatmakes a person able to see objects are they are - in 3 dimensions?
Equilibrium
Creative
Depth perception
Autonomic Nervous System
29. Which though process is follower thinking?
Convergent thinking
Reinforcer
All drugs - including over the counter - aspirin - coffee
Occipital - temporal - frontal - and parietal.
30. What is: another form of consciousness involving very little effort; dreaming while awake or letting the mind wander?
Behaviorism
Raymond Cattell
Modeling
Daydreaming
31. What do endocrine glands do?
Valid
Informed consent
Create and release chemicals into the blood
1 in 14 -000
32. Stage in which a person is concerned w/ how their action might affect society; the social contract orientation
Closure
The right hand - right eye - and speech
Stage 5
The meanlinkk of utterance (how long their sentences are)
33. What is: term used to describe a person's belief that they can perform a task successfully?
Through actions - doing what you believe is correct
The cerebrum
Self-efficacy
Create and release chemicals into the blood
34. Jean Piaget extensively used which research method to study children?
Contextual
Proximodistal
Abstinence
Natural observation
35. Chomsky believed that the ability to develop language skills was inherited in ______.
Dura mater
Cross-modal perception
Genes
The cerebrum
36. When does language development begin?
Belonging and love
Multiple caretakers
Natural observation
Six months
37. What houses memories and controls our responses to different sensory signals?
Mean
6-12
Raymond Cattell
The cerebrum
38. What is the ability to identify correctly something encountered before?
Lens
Gentle birth
Conservation
Recognition
39. What is the main relay station for incoming sensory signals to the cerebral cortex - and outgoing motor signals from it?
They can be coached into learning a type of test--do better or worse - etc.
Natural prepared childbirth
Humanistic Theorists
Thalamus
40. What is: any pill designed to prevent pregnancy?
Base of the skull; size of a pea
Oral contraceptives
Rh positive
Cerebrospinal fluid
41. Stereotypes in genders; boys play with trucks and girls wear makeup - etc.
Explicit role instruction
6-12
Auditory System
Dialectical perspective
42. The best way to teach children values is?
Lewis Terman
Through actions - doing what you believe is correct
Rubella
Esteem needs
43. Stages of friendship: intimate
Preparatory Depression
Gradually through shaping
The cerebrum
9-15
44. What are the four lobes of the brain?
Occipital - temporal - frontal - and parietal.
Toddler
School-age Child
Super Ego
45. What are the three parts of memory?
Middle childhood
Kubler-Ross's Stages of Dying
Classical conditioning
Encoding the information - represnting the information - and retrieving information from memory.
46. Contains the psychic content related to the primitive instincts of the body - notably sex and aggression - functioning entirely according to the pleasure-pain principle - seeking either immediate fulfillment or settling for a compromise fulfillment
Id
Weak correlation
Obstetrician-gynecologist
Cerebral anoxia
47. What is: hatred and fear of homosexuals?
Personality
Homophobia
3
Base of the skull; size of a pea
48. What is the medical means to terminate a pregnancy?
Abortion
5 & 6
Object permanence
Subjects may be dishonest w/ their answers
49. What side of the N/N debate means that all children are first good; believe it is the way they are brought up that affects personality and actions?
The cerebrum
Hypothalamus
Excitement - plateau - orgasm - and resolution phases
Nurture
50. Self-aware - recognized - defined
Schema
Self-concept
The right hand - right eye - and speech
Operation