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DSST Lifespan Developmental Psychology
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1. How much is hearing developed in neonates?
Mostly developed by the time of birth
Attention Deficit Disorder and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
Condom
Divergent thinkers
2. After how many cigarettes will the fetus definitely have problems--with a 50% greater risk of childhood cancer?
Five
Loudness
1 in 14 -000
Behaviorism
3. Which stage of development is: Generativity vs. Stagnation? (giving to the next generation)
Preoperational stage (ages 3-6)
Cut in half
Middle-age Adult
Valid
4. Which though process is follower thinking?
None!!
Long labors or birth complications
Convergent thinking
Longitudinal Study
5. A baby repeating what you just said
10-14 months
Echolalia
Biological
Schema
6. Who proposed fluid/crystallized intelligence?
Raymond Cattell
Cerebrospinal fluid
Placebo effect
Cognitive
7. What is: the theory centered on behavior; see person as blank slate upon which impressions of experiences can be recorded.
In vitro fertilization
Behavioral
Content validity
Gender conservation
8. Who introduced the scientific method?
Babbling
Norplant
Francis Bacon--16th century
Authoritative
9. Where nursing care is given meant to maximize the quality of life for someone who is dying
Valid
Social aspect of language
Stage 2
Hospice
10. What gland releases hormones that regulate hormone secretions of other glands?
Recognition
Pia mater
Developmental norm
Pituitary gland
11. What is the characteristic that: you fill in areas that we do not have complete information about?
6-12
Contraception
Operant conditioning
Creative
12. Who developed the theory of social development?
3 & 4
Vygotsky
Intrinsic reinforcer
The more accurate the result
13. What is the name for the 'crack' in the middle of the brain halves?
Longitudinal fissure
Echolalia
Parietal lobe
Sexual orientation
14. What is: structures in the cerebral cortex related to memory and emotion?
Extinction
Brain and spinal cord
Social learning theory
Limbic system
15. What are the four characteristics of perception?
Daydreaming
Naturalistic observation
Mentally retarded
Automatic - selective - contextual - and creative
16. What do doctors agree is the best way to feed babies?
Bisexual
Random assignment
Breast-feeding
Nurture
17. Who created structuralism?
Conceive at younger ages
Natural prepared childbirth
Wilhelm Wundt
Crystallized intelligence
18. What is the term for oxygen deficiency to the brain?
Mode
Rationalization
3 & 4
Cerebral anoxia
19. What is the term for the death of a child under one year - for no apparent reason?
Sudden Infant Death Syndrome
Physical needs
Social development or social cognition
Fluid intelligence and crystal intelligence
20. What regulates internal temperature - eating - sleeping - drinking - emotions - and sexual activity?
Mode
Base of the skull; size of a pea
Hypothalamus
Cellular Theory
21. What is the white part of the eye that protects and manages the shape of the eye?
Around age two
Selera
Bound morpheme
Cones
22. What is: psychological definition for having more equal personality characteristics between male&female?
In vitro fertilization
Self-report data
Androgynous
Olfactory epithelium
23. What is: when a person or animal responds to a neutral stimulus with a meaningful one
Convergent thinking
Carl Rogers
Classical conditioning
Middle childhood
24. A term used in research used to describe something measurable usually expressed as a number
Quantitative
Fetal alcohol syndrome
Condom
Thalamus
25. In children babbling begins around age _____ - while in deaf infants babbling usually begins around several months later
Six or seven months
Punishment
Lens
Autism
26. Biological theories of aging: the number of cells that have problems or mutations that increase w/ age
Papillae
Genetic Mutation
Adolescent Egocentrism
Semantics
27. What is the sense that gives information about balance and body movement? (if your body is moving - tilting - etc.)
Vestibular sense
Intrinsic reinforcer
Fetal tobacco syndrome
Divergent thinking
28. Which stage of development is: Autonomy vs. Shame and Doubt (making their own decisions)
Inner ear
Gene
Fontanels
Toddler
29. What does STDs stand for - including AIDS and herpes?
Sexually transmitted diseases
Parallel play
Biological
Self-esteem
30. The scientific study of words and sentences
Preconventional - conventional - postconventional
Object permanence
Semantics
Preoperational stage (ages 3-6)
31. A person who uses ______ has a stated position - but also acknowledges that it may change over time.
Independent variable
Emotional health
Dialectical perspective
Functionalism
32. Gilligan believed that ________ conflicted between self and other - while ________ conflicted between self and justice
Women - men
Increase
Humanistic Theorists
Rubella
33. What is: the amount of pressure produced by a sound wave - measured in decibels?
Cooing
Middle ear
Modeling
Amplitude
34. Why is autism rare in children for the first 2 1/2 years?
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35. Which thought process is a creative process?
Dependent variable
Kibbutz
Closure
Divergent thinking
36. List the levels (in order) of Kohlberg's Theory of Moral Development
Preconventional - conventional - postconventional
Response extinction
Young-old
ADHD
37. Child's realization their sex will stay the same
Retina
Cerebellum
Gender conservation
Have more bland personalities and often difficult for them to create and maintain intimate relationships as they have a lack of emotional depth
38. What are the two directions of growth in the embryo?
Cephalocaudal and Proximodistal
Obstetrician-gynecologist - family practitioner - or midwife
Cones
Old-old
39. What are areas in a baby's skull where cartilage hasn't yet hardened into bone?
Cerebral palsy
Around age two
Fontanels
Spiritual health
40. What is: growth from the head downward (head develops before rest of the body)?
Cephalocaudal
Cross Sectional Study
Baby Albert
All drugs - including over the counter - aspirin - coffee
41. What is the most dangerous trimester for the fetus (in regard to drug/alcohol use)?
Gene
First trimester
Fetal alcohol syndrome
Schema
42. Gifted children often hide gifts to ______.
Conception
Bias
Projection
Fit in
43. One's wishes for the distribution of one's property and possessions after death
A will
Positive reinforcer
Humanistic
Experimental group and control group
44. What are the four stages of sexual response?
Excitement - plateau - orgasm - and resolution phases
Freud
They were not scientifically performed
Thalamus
45. What is: the ability to group objects together on the basis of common features?
Zygote
Kohlberg
Condom
Classification
46. What fluid covers the brain - and is used to transport chemicals and regulate pressure?
Create and release chemicals into the blood
Divergent thinking
John Bowlby's Attachment Theory
Cerebrospinal fluid
47. What is: method of contraception by having no direct contact with partner's genitals?
Dialectical perspective
Genetic Mutation
Cerebrum
Abstinence
48. When is anoxia a problem in births?
Suppression
Long labors or birth complications
Kubler-Ross's Stages of Dying
Gentle birth
49. What is the method to find the amount that one variable changes in relation to another?
Correlational research
No
Childhood depression
Kibbutz
50. A reinforcer that comes from within the individual--something emotional.
Frontal lobe
Intrinsic reinforcer
Bandura
Psychometrics