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DSST Lifespan Developmental Psychology
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. What is: the representation in the mind of a set of perceptions - ideas - and actions - which go together
Schema
Crystallized intelligence
Divergent thinkers
Nurture
2. Theory that language abilities devlop innately; there must be some mechanism in the brain which aids in language acquisition; who came up with this theory?
Echolalia
99%
Freud
Chomsky
3. What is the name of the scientist known as the father of genetics and inheritance?
Osteoporosis
1 & 2
Autism
Mendel
4. What are: general term for the reproductive organs in a male or female?
Reinforcer
Social aspect of language
Gonads
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
5. The best way to teach children values is?
Autoerotic behavior
2
Through actions - doing what you believe is correct
John Watson
6. The first experiment of classical conditioning was done by who?
Olfactory sense
Middle-old
Ivan Pavlov
Depo-Provera
7. What is the drug to cause an abortion in the first 9 weeks of pregnancy?
Cognitive theorist
Experimental group and control group
RU-486
Limbic system
8. What is: the bumps on top of the tongue that contain taste buds?
Subject
Six or seven months
Papillae
Ageism
9. What is a learning disability in math - where concepts are learned one day and forgotten the next?
Dyscalcula
4
Classical conditioning works more to explain reflexive or unconscious reactions - Operant conditioning works to explain elective actions and reactions
The meanlinkk of utterance (how long their sentences are)
10. What is the name for the two halves of the brain?
Cerebrum
Diaphragm
3 & 4
Classical conditioning
11. What is the part in the back of the eye that includes receptors called rods and cones?
Physical needs
Retina
Independent variable
IUD
12. What is the term to describe the thinking part of health?
Mental health
Cognitive improvement
Sudden Infant Death Syndrome
Half (23)
13. Who founded the Hierarchy of Needs theory?
Maslow
Psychoanalytic theory
Super Ego
3 & 4
14. What is: the part of the ear inside the cochlea; contains sensors that change energy into impulses to be decoded by the brain?
Acceptance
Homophobia
Organ of corti
Inner ear
15. What is: hatred and fear of homosexuals?
Rubella
Abstinence
Homophobia
Preconventional Morality
16. What is: irrelevant stimuli that compete for our attention (like traffic)
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
Subjects may be dishonest w/ their answers
Noise
Dizygotic twins
17. What is: your thoughts - beliefs - attitudes - and values
Endocrine system
Cerebrum
Mental health
Hypothalamus
18. What kind of childbirth did Dr. Grantly Dick Read start teaching?
Gestures
Thalamus
Correlation Research
Natural prepared childbirth
19. What is: the fluid filled structure in the inner ear that looks like a snail?
Cochlea
Breast-feeding
Psychiatrist
Monocular cues
20. What is: a period in a child's development in which he/she is capable of understanding some things but not others
Avoid punishment
They can be coached into learning a type of test--do better or worse - etc.
Selective attention
Stage
21. The name most associated with operant conditioning is who?
Sexual identity
B.F. Skinner
Gestalt psychology
IUD
22. What is the part of the ear that includes the oval window - cochlea - and organ of Corti?
Fluid intelligence
3
Strong correlation
Inner ear
23. What system is made up of the hypothalamus and other glands?
Fetal tobacco syndrome
Set high standards - assist along the way
Explicit role instruction
Endocrine system
24. Age at which children begin to share their toys and interact w/ one another - associative play
3
Echolalia
Vestibular sense
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. Used to show links between people - events - actions - behaviors - etc. while not determining the caus - rather is linked to statistics
Mostly developed by the time of birth
Binocular cues
Correlation Research
Dyscalcula
26. Which protective brain layer is mostly blood vessels?
Operant conditioning
Teratogens
Pia mater
Functionalism
27. The scientific study of words and sentences
Resilient child
Semantics
50%
Preschooler
28. Stages of friendship: autonomous - interdependent
12+
Cerebral anoxia
Mental health
The more accurate the result
29. Something used to make a behavior less likely to occur - can be positive or negative
Semantics
Punishment
Cut in half
Syphillis and rubella
30. What is the clear membrane in front of the eye that protects it?
Preschooler
Endocrine system
Sound waves
Cornea
31. What is the opening of the iris - which looks black?
Pupil
First trimester
Automatic
Kibbutz
32. Fourth stage in the Kubler-Ross's Stages of Dying: 'There's nothing I can do about this'
Preparatory Depression
Selective attention
Operant conditioning
Temporal lobe
33. What are the four components of psychosocial health?
Because at birth cells aren't well connected (lacking in myelin - or nerve insulation)
Spiritual - emotional - mental - and social health
Maslow
A will
34. First development of language; pre-speech
Cooing
Gender conservation
Automatic
Babbling
35. The final stage of Maslow's Hierarchy of needs. A stage you may never actually meet.
Self-actualization
Ferdinand Lamaze
Cross Sectional Study
Modeling
36. The average of a data set
Mean
Hospice
Operation
Frontal lobe
37. Where a group of people live together and the children of all the people are raised by one or two people
Behaviorism
Family therapy
Kibbutz
Mendel
38. What is the main symptom of hyperactivity?
Short attention span
Cross-modal perception
Structuralism
Irritability - social responsiveness - and activity level
39. What is a disease also called German measles?
Dyscalcula
Rubella
Thalamus
Subjects may be dishonest w/ their answers
40. Experiment where researchers made a baby afraid of rats through classical conditioning
Ageism
Baby Albert
Vygotsky
Unoccupied behavior - onlooker - solitary independent (plays alone) - parallel play (plays around but not w/ others) - associative - cooperative play
41. In a case study - a single individual called a _____ is intensely studied
Rubella
Sound waves
Subject
Sexual identity
42. What is: a progesterone shot given every three months?
Intrinsic reinforcer
They can be coached into learning a type of test--do better or worse - etc.
Long labors or birth complications
Depo-Provera
43. What do endocrine glands do?
Diaphragm
Constant
As soon as the bell was rung
Create and release chemicals into the blood
44. What is: sheath of thin latex designed to catch sperm upon ejaculation?
Condom
Psychometrics
Zone of Proximal Development
Kibbutz
45. When does language development begin?
Six months
Experimental research
Extrinsic reinforcer
Cephalocaudal and Proximodistal
46. What is: the debate between whether a child is born a bad seed--with whatever disposition/tastes/personality they were meant to have; or that a child is born good - with their upbringing affecting their later personality and actions.
Equilibrium
Homophobia
Convergent thinking
Nature vs. nurture
47. Second development of language - still pre-speech; repetition of meaningful sounds
The Premack Principle
Babbling
Cerebrum
Stage 6
48. What attention disorders also interfere with the learning process?
Attention Deficit Disorder and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
Sexual orientation
The brain/the cerebral cortex
Cochlea
49. What syndrome happens when a woman smokes while pregnant?
Frequency
Assimilation
Create and release chemicals into the blood
Fetal tobacco syndrome
50. Who taught women breathing procedures to get through childbirth - including panting?
Increase
Autoimmune Theory
Homosexual
Ferdinand Lamaze