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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: your thoughts about what gives life purpose--the meaning of life - religion
Oral contraceptives
Spiritual health
Emergency contraception
Experimental group and control group
2. Experiment when none of the doctors - researchers - and participants know who is getting the real drug
Rubella
Double blind
6
Accommodation
3. Which thought process is a creative process?
Women - men
Weak correlation
Critical period
Divergent thinking
4. What is: not being involved in a sexual relationship?
Intestate
Double blind
Celibacy
Classical conditioning
5. What are the four components of psychosocial health?
Erik Erikson
Childhood depression
Spiritual - emotional - mental - and social health
Slowed growth - body/face malfunctions - nervous system disorders - mental retardation.
6. 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
Suppression
Stage 3
Cognitive theorist
Put babies on their backs to sleep - and not have anything extra (toys - pillows etc) in the bed or crib.
7. What is: where the lens changes its curves to help the eye focus?
Echolalia
50%
Kibbutz
Accommodation
8. What is: another form of consciousness involving very little effort; dreaming while awake or letting the mind wander?
Reciprocal determinism
Cerebral palsy
Daydreaming
Subjects may be dishonest w/ their answers
9. After how many cigarettes will the fetus definitely have problems--with a 50% greater risk of childhood cancer?
Put babies on their backs to sleep - and not have anything extra (toys - pillows etc) in the bed or crib.
Five
Equilibrium
John Bowlby's Attachment Theory
10. When people are followed and studied over a long period of time and checked up on at certain points
Hollow phrases
Cerebrospinal fluid
Base of the skull; size of a pea
Longitudinal Study
11. What is the name for the bundles of axons - used to communicate between the two halves of brain?
Commissures
The brain
Adrenal glands
Full (46)
12. What is the part of the ear that includes the oval window - cochlea - and organ of Corti?
School-age Child
Reinforcer
Inner ear
Cognitive
13. Usually has a doctoral degree in psychology plus an internship; cannot prescribe medicine.
Wilhelm Wundt
Clinical psychologist
Middle-old
Five
14. Defense mechanism: feelings are redirected to someone else
Sympathetic - parasympathetic - and enteric
Wilhelm Wundt
Natural prepared childbirth
Displacement
15. A higher number of the correlation coefficient closer to the number one shows a:
The Premack Principle
Strong correlation
Cross Sectional Study
Iris
16. Why is self-report data not as reliable as other research methods?
Subjects may be dishonest w/ their answers
John Bowlby's Attachment Theory
B.F. Skinner
Rationalization
17. In the Harlow experiment: between the wire monkey+bottle - and cloth monkey+no bottle - which fake mother did the babies prefer?
Cognitive theorist
Ageism
The cloth monkey
Mental age/Chronological age - x 100
18. What is the conception alternative where fertilization of the egg is done outside the body - and then transferred back into the body?
Operant Conditioning
In vitro fertilization
Set high standards - assist along the way
Valid
19. What part of the central nervous system controls all necessary functions of the body?
Extinction
Cochlea
Attention Deficit Disorder and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
The brain
20. What is: an M.D. who specializes in OB-GYN?
Obstetrician-gynecologist
Critical period
Mean
Down syndrome
21. Level 3 of Kohlberg's Theory of Moral Development includes which stages
All drugs - including over the counter - aspirin - coffee
5 & 6
Long labors or birth complications
Smell
22. A collection of data from all cases or people in the chosen set
Naturalistic observation
Stillbirth
A census
In vitro fertilization
23. 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)
Operation
3
Bandura
Breast-feeding
24. What is the name for the 'crack' in the middle of the brain halves?
Cerebral palsy
Sampling
Longitudinal fissure
Cross-modal perception
25. What is: any pill designed to prevent pregnancy?
Oral contraceptives
Dependent variable
Correlation coefficient
Dialectical perspective
26. What is the term for fraternal twins?
Dizygotic twins
Sublimation
Natural prepared childbirth
William James
27. What is the most extreme outcome of a woman drinking during her pregnancy?
Fetal death
Sublimation
Young-old
Object permanence
28. What is another term for the system of hearing?
Permissive
Auditory System
Frequency
Correlational research
29. People who are working that experience discrimination because of their age - whether too young or too old are victims of what?
Ageism
Middle ear
Ivan Pavlov
Zygote
30. What is the method of surgical delivery?
Functionalism
Adolescent
Depth perception
Cesarean birth
31. What are the three different areas of the Autonomic Nervous System?
Negative Correlation
Sympathetic - parasympathetic - and enteric
Cerebral cortex
Wilhelm Wundt
32. Recent research supports that children learn from listening to their parents talk to them in 'baby talk'; which aspect of language is this?
Independent variable
Self-efficacy
Denial
Social aspect of language
33. Which of these diseases can cause miscarriage - stillbirth - heart defects - deafness - and other problems?
Rubella
Cerebrum
Independent variable
Toxic shock syndrome
34. What is: attraction to both sexes?
All drugs - including over the counter - aspirin - coffee
Kibbutz
Content validity
Bisexual
35. Categories of old age: 65-74
Erik Erikson
Homophobia
Echolalia
Young-old
36. Once the disease strikes - an individual w/ Alzheimer's disease usually has their life expectancy is:
Punishment
Cochlea
Cut in half
Divergent thinking
37. A communication style in which single words are used to communicate - typical of toddlers learning to speak - for example 'give' or 'mama'. The meaning is still understood even though complete sentences are not used
Mental health
Self-concept
Holophrase syntax
Dura mater
38. What is: a person's attraction to other people?
Independent variable
Pia mater
Adrenal glands
Sexual orientation
39. Defense mechanism: Turning a feeling into the exact opposite feeling
Best friend
Stage 4
Egocentric behavior
Reaction Formation
40. The study of the aging process
Kubler-Ross's Stages of Dying
Lewis Terman
Zygote
Gerontology
41. A way of obtaining information about a specific type of information in which questionnaires are given out to participants who are then asked to answer the questions to the best of their ability
Survey
Cephalocaudal
Limbic system
Not fully developed; but can distinguish color - track movement - and bright objects.
42. The variable in which the researcher has direct control over
Independent variable
Conservation
All drugs - including over the counter - aspirin - coffee
1 & 2
43. Observing someone's behavior and basing our own behavior on it
Modeling
None!!
Displacement
Organ of corti
44. What gland releases hormones that regulate hormone secretions of other glands?
Pituitary gland
Functionalism
Classical conditioning works more to explain reflexive or unconscious reactions - Operant conditioning works to explain elective actions and reactions
Sampling
45. 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
Humanistic Theorists
Functionalism
Proximodistal
Critical period
46. Gilligan believed that ________ conflicted between self and other - while ________ conflicted between self and justice
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
Women - men
Diaphragm
Double blind
47. According to both Kohlberg and Piaget - the most immature reason to do something is to:
All drugs - including over the counter - aspirin - coffee
Six months
Auditory System
Avoid punishment
48. What is: the period of sexual maturation?
Gonads
A census
Puberty
Dyslexia
49. What are the different types of caregivers for pregnancy?
Avoid punishment
Obstetrician-gynecologist - family practitioner - or midwife
Behaviorism
Proximodistal
50. Biological theories of aging: like everything else in the world - the human body wears out
Sexually transmitted diseases
Cephalocaudal and Proximodistal
Negative reinforcer
Wear-and-Tear Theory