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DSST Lifespan Developmental Psychology
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Is there currently a cure for Alzheimer's disease?
Occipital lobe
No
Independent variable
Autonomic Nervous System
2. If a test measures what is meant to measure it is considered what?
Automatic - selective - contextual - and creative
Francis Bacon--16th century
Mental age/Chronological age - x 100
Valid
3. How much alcohol is the safe amount to consume during pregnancy?
Drugs - diseases (like HIV - rubella) - and pollutants (mercury - radiation - etc)
None!!
Short attention span
No
4. A type of conditioning in which a person associates an action with a consequence
Psychoanalytical
The meanlinkk of utterance (how long their sentences are)
Operant Conditioning
Psychometrics
5. What is a fertilized ovum or egg?
Displacement
Projection
Zygote
Reaction Formation
6. What are the five areas of Apgar Rating - with scores of 0-2 in each?
Cochlea
Smell
Id - Ego - Super Ego
Appearance - pulse - grimace (reflex) - activity - and respiration
7. What is the name for the bundles of axons - used to communicate between the two halves of brain?
Quantitative
Safety
Hypokinetic diseases
Commissures
8. What is: the moment an ovum/egg is fertilized by sperm?
Fetal tobacco syndrome
Conception
Divergent thinking
Binocular cues
9. What are the three things to monitor - to measure temperament in infants?
Qualitative
A census
Irritability - social responsiveness - and activity level
Divergent thinkers
10. What is the part of the ear that includes the pinna and external auditory canal?
Family situation - the world around you - lifespan - and maturity.
All drugs - including over the counter - aspirin - coffee
Autoerotic behavior
Outer ear
11. Stereotypes in genders; boys play with trucks and girls wear makeup - etc.
Explicit role instruction
Long labors or birth complications
Freud
Lens
12. Children that are raised on the Kibbutz are used to study the effects of what?
Reinforcer
Multiple caretakers
Fetal death
Childhood depression
13. What part of the central nervous system controls all necessary functions of the body?
The brain
Zone of Proximal Development
Survey
Commissures
14. What is: the theory focused on 'how' of behavior; minds are a continuous flow of information about experiences - and role is to study the mind/behavior as they adapt to the environment
Functionalism
Wear-and-Tear Theory
Gender identity
Conception
15. Which stage of development is: Industry vs. Inferiority? (working with others)
Naturalistic observation
Stage 6
Base of the skull; size of a pea
School-age Child
16. What is: when the mother consumes alcohol while her babies are in the womb?
Fetal alcohol syndrome
Condom
Skin appearance - 'age spots' - hair
Cephalocaudal
17. Rogers and Maslow are both:
Psychometrics
Middle childhood
The skull - dura mater membrane - arachnoid layer - and pia mater.
Humanistic Theorists
18. The study of the aging process
Five
Injections
Gerontology
1) Gather info - 2) Generate hypothesis - 3) Test hypothesis - 4) Revise
19. What is: the ability to associate something from one area of knowledge - and use that to determine or imagine what it is like in other aspects?
The meanlinkk of utterance (how long their sentences are)
Auditory System
Cross-modal perception
Celibacy
20. What thought process characterizes creative - gifted - or advanced children?
Divergent thinkers
Create and release chemicals into the blood
Sympathetic nervous system
Hippocampus
21. 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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22. Which stage of development is: Generativity vs. Stagnation? (giving to the next generation)
Mental health
Middle-age Adult
Modeling
Zygote
23. A set of cases of people randomly chosen from a large group to represent that large group
Best friend
A census
Sampling
Divergent thinking
24. Which thought process is a creative process?
Miscarriages or stillbirths
Proximodistal
Hollow phrases
Divergent thinking
25. A disorder where the bones are weakened and become porous - like a sponge
Osteoporosis
Self-actualization
Appearance - pulse - grimace (reflex) - activity - and respiration
Suppression
26. Defense mechanism: hiding the feelings and not acknowledging them
Suppression
Hospice
Accommodation
Equilibrium
27. Parenting styles: respects individually - but tries to instill social values
Family therapy
Spermicides
Depth perception
Authoritative
28. What are areas in a baby's skull where cartilage hasn't yet hardened into bone?
Vygotsky
Depo-Provera
Hypothalamus
Fontanels
29. Which stage of development is: Autonomy vs. Shame and Doubt (making their own decisions)
Dependent variable
Toddler
Figurative language
Hospice
30. Stages of friendship: autonomous - interdependent
Increase
12+
Accommodation
John Watson
31. Who argued that classical conditioning explains some behaviors - but operant conditioning plays a much larger role?
In vitro fertilization
Babbling
Emotional health
B.F. Skinner
32. Why is self-report data not as reliable as other research methods?
Subjects may be dishonest w/ their answers
Informed consent
Recall
Quantitative
33. John Bowlby felt that attachment held evolutionary purpose. Explain
Ego
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
Gestalt psychology
If the mom and child have different blood types - the mom's cells can attack the baby.
34. What is: method of contraception by having no direct contact with partner's genitals?
Wilhelm Wundt
Abstinence
Fetal death
Childhood depression
35. In children babbling begins around age _____ - while in deaf infants babbling usually begins around several months later
No correlation
Egocentric behavior
Six or seven months
5 & 6
36. What is: sexual self-stimulation or masturbation?
Functionalism
Increase
Humanistic Theorists
Autoerotic behavior
37. What is: any pill designed to prevent pregnancy?
Oral contraceptives
Median
Negative Correlation
Zygote
38. Which stage of development is: Intimacy vs. Isolation? (emotional ties with others)
Norplant
Young Adult
Gentle birth
Infant
39. What is: expression of your maleness or femaleness on a daily basis?
Gender roles
ADHD
Classical conditioning
Mental health
40. What are the four characteristics of perception?
Fit in
Automatic - selective - contextual - and creative
Stage 2
Zygote
41. 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.
Nature vs. nurture
Teratology
Visual cliff
Equilibrium
42. What is: the theory centered on behavior; see person as blank slate upon which impressions of experiences can be recorded.
Loudness
The brain stem
Telegraphic speech
Behavioral
43. Something pleasant used to make a behavior more likely
Rite of Passage
5 & 6
A will
Positive reinforcer
44. What is the method in which a variable and constant are use to test theories?
Six or seven months
Experimental research
Super Ego
Wilhelm Wundt
45. What is: focusing attention on a small amount of information?
Obstetrician-gynecologist - family practitioner - or midwife
Selective attention
Clinical psychologist
Cephalocaudal
46. Which part of the ANS is the arousing part of the system?
Opens and closes to let the correct amount of light in
Chomsky
Socialization
Sympathetic nervous system
47. The process of unassociating the condition with the response
Extinction
Syphillis and rubella
Closure
Conception
48. What is: a permanent facility control done through surgical procedures?
Sterilization
Developmental norm
Selective
Stage 6
49. What are the four components of psychosocial health?
Spiritual - emotional - mental - and social health
Sexually transmitted diseases
Androgynous
Assimilation
50. Who coined the Theory of Moral Development?
Depth perception
Kohlberg
Preparatory Depression
Operant conditioning