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DSST Lifespan Developmental Psychology
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. What are the three parts of memory?
Psychometrics
Double blind
Zygote
Encoding the information - represnting the information - and retrieving information from memory.
2. What two other chemicals do the adrenal glands secrete?
Epinephrine and norepinephrine
3
Assimilation
Recall
3. What is being able to reproduce knowledge from memory?
Selera
Recall
Equilibrium
Morality of Justice
4. What is the study done to show that infants have depth perception?
Ferdinand Lamaze
Visual cliff
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. Children learn and form their conscience and thoughts of what is acceptable behavior from what?
Watching their parents
Correlational research
Perception
Middle-old
6. What syndrome is characterized by small stature - poor coordination - hyperactive - learning disabilities - mental retardation - or large head?
Permissive
99%
Preconventional Morality
Fetal Alcohol Syndrome
7. What is when the baby is born in a pool or bath with dim lights?
Gentle birth
Hypothalamus
Structuralism
Cognitive
8. How much alcohol is the safe amount to consume during pregnancy?
None!!
Autoimmune Theory
Mentally retarded
Reciprocal determinism
9. Who founded the Hierarchy of Needs theory?
Abstinence
Spiritual - emotional - mental - and social health
Hypokinetic diseases
Maslow
10. When people are followed and studied over a long period of time and checked up on at certain points
Old-old
Longitudinal Study
Cones
Erogenous zones
11. In a case study - a single individual called a _____ is intensely studied
Injections
Object permanence
Punishment
Subject
12. What is: term for how much someone values and respects themselves?
Spermicides
Self-esteem
Best friend
Rh positive
13. What is the method in which a variable and constant are use to test theories?
Cross Sectional Study
Bisexual
Experimental research
Random assignment
14. Method that teaches children to realized their full potential.
Rods
Strong correlation
The Montessori Method
Laboratory observation
15. A higher number of the correlation coefficient closer to the number one shows a:
Loudness
Morphemes
Strong correlation
Natural observation
16. What kind of problem can it cause when a husband and wife have different blood types?
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17. 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?
Nurture
The Montessori Method
Best friend
Chomsky
18. What are the three things to monitor - to measure temperament in infants?
Irritability - social responsiveness - and activity level
Accommodation
Egocentric behavior
Absolute threshold
19. What is: attraction to both sexes?
Bisexual
Abstinence
As soon as the bell was rung
Self-efficacy
20. Not physical abuse but when the child feels rejected or feels failure
Abortion
Psychological maltreatment
Peer group
Belonging and love
21. If you are A positive blood - what is that in terms of Rh factor?
School-age Child
Correlational research
Rh positive
The Premack Principle
22. How do you fix the problem of mother's cells attacking the baby's?
Injections
Depth perception
IUD
Recognition
23. Which receptor is used for color vision?
Babbling
Kohlberg
Cones
Kubler-Ross's Stages of Dying
24. What are the four characteristics of perception?
Cornea
Increase
Olfactory epithelium
Automatic - selective - contextual - and creative
25. What are the different types of caregivers for pregnancy?
Bound morpheme
Prenatal development
Family therapy
Obstetrician-gynecologist - family practitioner - or midwife
26. Stage in which a person is concerned w/ how their action might affect society; the social contract orientation
Stage 5
Androgynous
Divergent thinking
Through actions - doing what you believe is correct
27. What is: focusing attention on a small amount of information?
Selective attention
Accommodation
Class inclusion
No
28. Aside from learning disabilities - what physical problem do Kleinfelter people have?
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29. How does the pupil work?
Mental health
Punishment
Stage 3
Opens and closes to let the correct amount of light in
30. What is the perception characteristic that: you don't have to think about it for it to happen?
Gentle birth
Nature vs. nurture
Automatic
Sigmund Freud
31. What is: method of contraception by having no direct contact with partner's genitals?
Abstinence
Monozygotic twins
Organ of corti
They can be coached into learning a type of test--do better or worse - etc.
32. Experiment when none of the doctors - researchers - and participants know who is getting the real drug
Double blind
Behavioral
Positive reinforcer
Parallel play
33. A system which uses operant conditioning to make less probable actions more likely to occur by using more probable actions as reinforcers
In vitro fertilization
Old Age
Nature
The Premack Principle
34. In a kibbutz - the real parents of children may see them for one hour a day - a time referred to as the __________.
Hour of love
Sweet - bitter - salty - sour
Babbling
Medicated delivery
35. First element to Vygotsky's theory: what does social interaction facilitate?
Hospice
6
Cognitive improvement
Young-old
36. A test that gives information about a participant including standardized tests such as aptitude - interest - and personality tests
Three percent
Puberty
Zone of Proximal Development
Psychological Tests
37. What is: relating new information to something familiar
Elaboration
Dyscalcula
Nature vs. nurture
Stage 1
38. Stage in which you do what is right in order to gain status or approval from other people or society; 'good boy-good girl' orientation
Stage 3
Permissive
Modeling
Down syndrome
39. A child that bounces back from a difficult situation
Teratogens
Wilhelm Wundt
Autism
Resilient child
40. What is another name for a sound wave's amplitude?
No
Preparatory Depression
Subjects may be dishonest w/ their answers
Loudness
41. What attention disorders also interfere with the learning process?
Telegraphic speech
Double blind
Attention Deficit Disorder and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
Auditory System
42. 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?
Autonomic Nervous System
Nurture
Genetic Mutation
Iris
43. What is the term for low IQ and mental age of about 4 years old?
Auditory System
No
Mentally retarded
Projection
44. What does the left half of the brain control?
Limbic system
The right hand - right eye - and speech
Mostly developed by the time of birth
2
45. The larger the sample:
The more accurate the result
1 & 2
Middle-old
Teratology
46. Categories of old age: 85+
Hollow phrases
Old Age
You need two - one from each parent - to conceive.
Old-old
47. What is a common learning disability in reading?
Psychological Tests
The Montessori Method
Up to 6 months of observation by doctors
Dyslexia
48. What is: the theory based on biology; belief that behavior and personality are linked to genetics
Spermicides
Biological
Daydreaming
Pituitary gland
49. What are: drugs taken within three days to prevent pregnancy from instances such as no protection - or a broken condom?
Operant conditioning
Emergency contraception
Cerebellum
1 & 2
50. What 4 main problems do fetal alcohol syndrome cause?
Slowed growth - body/face malfunctions - nervous system disorders - mental retardation.
Binocular cues
Random assignment
Automatic - selective - contextual - and creative