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DSST Lifespan Developmental Psychology

Subjects : dsst, psychology
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. What is: expression of your maleness or femaleness on a daily basis?






2. Does a gamete (reproductive) cell have full or half set of chromosomes?






3. What are the two different classifications of intelligence?






4. Visible signs of aging include:

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5. All other variables w/in an experiment that researchers do not have control over






6. Which lobe is related to voluntary muscles and intelligence?






7. Children are most likely to achieve if parents:






8. Which receptor is used for color vision?






9. Therapy that involves the whole family






10. What is the method of surgical delivery?






11. States that infants need to form at least one strong attachment such as to a parent - in order to develop normally

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12. What is: the ability to group objects together on the basis of common features?






13. The average of a data set






14. What is: any pill designed to prevent pregnancy?






15. The name most associated with operant conditioning is who?






16. Anything which makes a behavior more likely to occur






17. When a researcher observes and studies subjects w/o interacting or interfering w/ them






18. Who did the experiment with baby monkeys about affection and love?






19. What sends commands to all other parts of the body?






20. What is: your thoughts about what gives life purpose--the meaning of life - religion






21. A signal to society that certain rules have changed - this person is no longer a child






22. What section of the nervous system is responsible for the 'fight or flight' response?






23. A lower number of the correlation coefficient - closer to the number zero shows a:






24. Fourth step in Maslow's Hierarchy of needs in which you begin to think about you self-esteem and how you feel as a person






25. Theory by Bandura; the interaction of a person's personality - the environment - and the behavior.






26. What two things make up the central nervous system?






27. The distortion of the results






28. What is the scientific name for the sense of smell?






29. 1 -3 -4 -5 -7 -8 -10 what is the median?






30. 1 -2 -2 -2 -3 -3 -5 -8 -9 -9. What is the mode?






31. The process of unassociating the condition with the response






32. How is extinction best achieved?






33. Failure to thrive is caused by:






34. A medical doctor with a degree who specializes in psychotherapy - who can prescribe drugs






35. Who believed that the unconscious motivates our actions - through the id - ego - and superego?






36. Defense mechanism: reverting to old behavior to avoid feelings






37. How can parents avoid down syndrome in their children?






38. What is: the method to prevent an egg and sperm from being able to access each other?






39. Pavlovs famous classical conditioning dog experiment.






40. What attention disorders also interfere with the learning process?






41. What is: psychological definition for having more equal personality characteristics between male&female?






42. When one variable increase - another variable increases. We call this a what?






43. What part of the central nervous system controls all necessary functions of the body?






44. The first experiment of classical conditioning was done by who?






45. What is the method to find the amount that one variable changes in relation to another?






46. What is the variable that the experiment is trying to test?






47. What is the approach that assumes people organize their perceptions by patterns?






48. The most direct measure of syntax in middle childhood is what?






49. After how many cigarettes will the fetus definitely have problems--with a 50% greater risk of childhood cancer?






50. Four steps of the scientific method include: