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DSST Lifespan Developmental Psychology
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. What is: the tone color or perceptual quality of a sound?
Old-old
Rubella
Timbre
Sublimation
2. What sends commands to all other parts of the body?
Classification
School-age Child
The brain stem
Sigmund Freud
3. What is the term for identical twins?
Absolute threshold
Obstetrician-gynecologist - family practitioner - or midwife
Middle-age Adult
Monozygotic twins
4. What is the method to find the amount that one variable changes in relation to another?
Monocular cues
Cochlea
Correlational research
Bisexual
5. When can a person's short term memory become incapacitated?
As they age
Cerebellum
Because at birth cells aren't well connected (lacking in myelin - or nerve insulation)
Clinical psychologist
6. How do you fix the problem of mother's cells attacking the baby's?
Contraception
Amniocentesis
Injections
Cochlea
7. What are: vibrations in the air that we receive through the ear to be processed?
Emergency contraception
Multiple caretakers
Classical conditioning works more to explain reflexive or unconscious reactions - Operant conditioning works to explain elective actions and reactions
Sound waves
8. What is the conception alternative where semen is deposited into the body via a thin tube?
Alternative - or artificial - insemination
Sound waves
None!!
Monocular cues
9. Environment in which two (or more) children sit side by side - or near each other - and play without interacting with the other child or trying to influence them in any way. Most children engage in this type of enviornment.
Projection
Mode
Cephalocaudal and Proximodistal
Parallel play
10. What is the medical term for birth of a dead baby?
Mentally retarded
Self-report data
Morality of Care
Stillbirth
11. Second element: The presence of someone who knows more in an area - like a parent - teacher - coach - etc.?
Hypokinetic diseases
More Knowledgeable Other (MKO)
Old-old
Norplant
12. Something used to make a behavior less likely to occur - can be positive or negative
Sympathetic nervous system
Punishment
Adolescent Egocentrism
Dyscalcula
13. What disorder causes a person to have difficulty concentration - be easily distracted - or constantly in motion?
Abstinence
23 pairs
ADHD
As soon as the bell was rung
14. What is: another form of consciousness involving very little effort; dreaming while awake or letting the mind wander?
Daydreaming
Socialization
Young Adult
Lewis Terman
15. Which thought process is a creative process?
Divergent thinking
Creative
No
Parallel play
16. Which stage of development is: Industry vs. Inferiority? (working with others)
Auditory System
Olfactory sense
Invincibility fable
School-age Child
17. A correlation coefficient of zero
Loudness
Three
Commissures
No correlation
18. What is: when the mother consumes alcohol while her babies are in the womb?
Fetal alcohol syndrome
Parietal lobe
Operant conditioning
Gender identity
19. What is the variable that the experimenter controls?
Independent variable
Mostly developed by the time of birth
Down syndrome
Conceive at younger ages
20. What are the three things to monitor - to measure temperament in infants?
Autoerotic behavior
Subjects may be dishonest w/ their answers
Amplitude
Irritability - social responsiveness - and activity level
21. What is: the moment an ovum/egg is fertilized by sperm?
Epinephrine and norepinephrine
Conception
Sexually transmitted diseases
Harry Harlow
22. In children babbling begins around age _____ - while in deaf infants babbling usually begins around several months later
Reinforcer
Cephalocaudal and Proximodistal
Six or seven months
Stage 3
23. What is the main difference between classical and operant conditioning?
Stage
The meanlinkk of utterance (how long their sentences are)
Belonging and love
Classical conditioning works more to explain reflexive or unconscious reactions - Operant conditioning works to explain elective actions and reactions
24. Level 1 of Kohlberg's Theory of Moral Development
Unoccupied behavior - onlooker - solitary independent (plays alone) - parallel play (plays around but not w/ others) - associative - cooperative play
Invincibility fable
3
Preconventional Morality
25. Those who are mentally retarded are least likely to also have WHAT condition?
Cerebral palsy
Family situation - the world around you - lifespan - and maturity.
Correlation Research
Adolescent Egocentrism
26. What section of the nervous system is responsible for the 'fight or flight' response?
Commissures
4
Medicated delivery
Autonomic Nervous System
27. What are the three parts of memory?
The skull - dura mater membrane - arachnoid layer - and pia mater.
Encoding the information - represnting the information - and retrieving information from memory.
Classical conditioning
Organ of corti
28. Parenting styles: 'because I say so'--more prevalent in lower-class families
Convergent thinking
Temporal lobe
Classical conditioning
Authoritarian
29. A signal to society that certain rules have changed - this person is no longer a child
Rite of Passage
Cornea
Pituitary gland
Mean
30. What does STDs stand for - including AIDS and herpes?
Put babies on their backs to sleep - and not have anything extra (toys - pillows etc) in the bed or crib.
Sexually transmitted diseases
Divergent thinking
Autonomic Nervous System
31. 1 -2 -2 -2 -3 -3 -5 -8 -9 -9. What is the mode?
Assimilation
Brain and spinal cord
2
Habituation
32. Id - Ego - and Super Ego were all founded by who?
Sigmund Freud
Social aspect of language
Informed consent
Conservation
33. What is being able to reproduce knowledge from memory?
John Watson
Recall
Psychiatrist
Frequency
34. When one variable increase - another variable increases. We call this a what?
Gestures
Amniocentesis
A census
Positive Correlation
35. Parenting styles: respects individually - but tries to instill social values
Set high standards - assist along the way
Psychiatrist
Authoritative
Wilhelm Wundt
36. Children that are raised on the Kibbutz are used to study the effects of what?
Deferred imitation
Bell would ring - then feed the dogs - Dogs would salivate when given food - Over time dogs began to salivate simply at ring of bell
Assimilation
Multiple caretakers
37. How does the pupil work?
Opens and closes to let the correct amount of light in
Adrenal glands
Emotional health
Denial (Shock)
38. Used to show links between people - events - actions - behaviors - etc. while not determining the caus - rather is linked to statistics
Because at birth cells aren't well connected (lacking in myelin - or nerve insulation)
Olfactory sense
Correlation Research
Accommodation
39. If a test measures what is meant to measure it is considered what?
Women - men
Lewis Terman
Morality of Justice
Valid
40. Stereotypes in genders; boys play with trucks and girls wear makeup - etc.
Classification
Absolute threshold
Corpus callosum
Explicit role instruction
41. What is the most extreme outcome of a woman drinking during her pregnancy?
Fetal death
Gender role stereotypes
Watching their parents
Put babies on their backs to sleep - and not have anything extra (toys - pillows etc) in the bed or crib.
42. What is: the process of working something out in your head; shows the difference between young children (act and try things out) and older (can do things in their heads)
Proximodistal
Half (23)
Biological
Operation
43. Not physical abuse but when the child feels rejected or feels failure
Mental age/Chronological age - x 100
Echolalia
Psychological maltreatment
Cut in half
44. How much are the eyes developed in newborns?
Humanistic Theorists
Alzheimer's Disease
Stimulus generalization
Not fully developed; but can distinguish color - track movement - and bright objects.
45. What percentage of children are affected by hyperactivity?
Carl Rogers
Three percent
Stage 6
Virginia Apgar - or Apgar Rating
46. Deaf children will often be more proficient at communicating through _______ than do hearing infants - often being able to sign at ten months old
Organ of corti
Cognitive improvement
Puberty
Gestures
47. What is the approach that assumes people organize their perceptions by patterns?
Gestalt psychology
Sigmund Freud
Functionalism
Rubella
48. What does the right half of the brain control?
Gonads
Left hand - left eye - and simple comprehension
1) Gather info - 2) Generate hypothesis - 3) Test hypothesis - 4) Revise
Intrinsic reinforcer
49. A term used to describe something similar in structure or organization
Adrenal glands
Qualitative
Acceptance
Psychoanalytic theory
50. What houses memories and controls our responses to different sensory signals?
The cerebrum
Six or seven months
Stillbirth
Noise