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DSST Lifespan Developmental Psychology
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1. Removing something unpleasant from a situation - to make a behavior more likely
Negative reinforcer
5 & 6
Chomsky
Cephalocaudal and Proximodistal
2. What are the four components of psychosocial health?
Spiritual - emotional - mental - and social health
Gentle birth
No
Gradually through shaping
3. The study of the aging process
None!!
Gerontology
Jean Piaget
Morality of Care
4. What is the drug to cause an abortion in the first 9 weeks of pregnancy?
Deferred imitation
You need two - one from each parent - to conceive.
Operant conditioning
RU-486
5. Contains the psychic content related to the primitive instincts of the body - notably sex and aggression - functioning entirely according to the pleasure-pain principle - seeking either immediate fulfillment or settling for a compromise fulfillment
Id
Response extinction
Anger (Emotion)
90%
6. Which receptor is used for color vision?
Kohlberg
Elaboration
Nurture
Cones
7. A collection of data from all cases or people in the chosen set
A census
Self-actualization
No
Sterilization
8. What is the name for the 'crack' in the middle of the brain halves?
Longitudinal fissure
Cognitive theorist
Kleinfelter Syndrome; male
Dyslexia
9. Children that are raised on the Kibbutz will often:
More Knowledgeable Other (MKO)
Have more bland personalities and often difficult for them to create and maintain intimate relationships as they have a lack of emotional depth
...
Displacement
10. A type of conditioning in which a person associates an action with a consequence
Rods
Belonging and love
Iris
Operant Conditioning
11. Not physical abuse but when the child feels rejected or feels failure
Acceptance
Spiritual - emotional - mental - and social health
Psychological maltreatment
Cesarean birth
12. Which lobe is related to hearing?
Loudness
Vestibular sense
Temporal lobe
Median
13. Who was the psychoanalyst who documented stages of emotional growth in regards to babies?
Watching their parents
Pons
Erik Erikson
Stimulus generalization
14. Defined as diseases which are either related to or caused by a sedentary lifestyle - in other words - caused by the lack of regular exercise or activity
Gilligan
Hypokinetic diseases
None!!
Because at birth cells aren't well connected (lacking in myelin - or nerve insulation)
15. Biological theories of aging: as our bodies age - our immune systems become less effective at fighting disease - stress - etc.
The right hand - right eye - and speech
Morality of Care
Brain and spinal cord
Autoimmune Theory
16. What glands affect the mood - energy level - and stress?
Organ of corti
John Watson
Cognitive
Adrenal glands
17. What is the term for: a child's understanding that once you leave the room - you are not gone forever - etc.?
Projection
Object permanence
The penis doesn't grow and breasts may develop.
Fit in
18. A correlation coefficient of zero
No correlation
Explicit role instruction
They can be coached into learning a type of test--do better or worse - etc.
5 & 6
19. 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?
Classical conditioning
Infant
Auditory System
Chomsky
20. What is: sexual self-stimulation or masturbation?
Rh positive
Pupil
Kleinfelter Syndrome; male
Autoerotic behavior
21. What is: the theory that all people are inherently good and motivated to achieve their full potential
Humanistic
Correlational research
Cerebral palsy
Psychoanalytic theory
22. What is the middle number in a set of data called?
Injections
Median
Self-report data
Mental health
23. What is the main symptom of hyperactivity?
Psychological maltreatment
Qualitative
Short attention span
Cross-modal perception
24. Defense mechanism: hiding the feelings and not acknowledging them
Fit in
Preconventional - conventional - postconventional
Autism
Suppression
25. What purpose do fontanels have?
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26. Stage in which a person abides by the law because they think that law is a higher order; laws cannot be broken under any circumstance; social-order-maintaining orientation
Cerebrospinal fluid
Correlational research
Stage 4
The posterior (back) fontanel: within two months of birth. The anterior (front) fontanel: by the child's 2nd birthday.
27. What is: the study of substances which are harmful to prenatal development?
Down syndrome
Three percent
3 & 4
Teratology
28. What are the three different types of teratogens?
Abstinence
Drugs - diseases (like HIV - rubella) - and pollutants (mercury - radiation - etc)
Young-old
Denial
29. Pavlovs famous classical conditioning dog experiment.
Mental age/Chronological age - x 100
Six months
Bell would ring - then feed the dogs - Dogs would salivate when given food - Over time dogs began to salivate simply at ring of bell
Suppression
30. How many different theories of language development are there?
Fit in
Three
Skin appearance - 'age spots' - hair
Equilibrium
31. What is the thought process that considers an idea or belief (thesis) and acknowledges the idea's opposite (antithesis)?
Dialectical perspective
Cerebrospinal fluid
Sigmund Freud
Rite of Passage
32. Something pleasant used to make a behavior more likely
Long labors or birth complications
Self-report data
Morality of Justice
Positive reinforcer
33. In a child - can be expressed as 'nobody likes me'
Multiple caretakers
Best friend
Childhood depression
Babbling
34. Parenting styles: makes few demands - hardly ever punishes
Family therapy
Harry Harlow
Placebo effect
Permissive
35. What is: the difference made to one's mind by the process of assimilation?
Contraception
Accommodation
Dependent variable
Cephalocaudal
36. Dying w/o a will
Psychoanalytical
Absolute threshold
Holophrase syntax
Intestate
37. Age at which children begin to share their toys and interact w/ one another - associative play
Habituation
Irritability - social responsiveness - and activity level
3
Psychoanalytic theory
38. What section of the nervous system is responsible for the 'fight or flight' response?
Autonomic Nervous System
Lewis Terman
Consciousness
None!!
39. What are the factors that influence psychosocial health?
Hypothalamus
Ethics
Family situation - the world around you - lifespan - and maturity.
Extrinsic reinforcer
40. What is the ability to identify correctly something encountered before?
Clinical psychologist
Peer group
Abortion
Recognition
41. What is the clear membrane in front of the eye that protects it?
Mostly developed by the time of birth
Negative Correlation
Cornea
9-15
42. Who developed the theory of social development?
Vygotsky
Self-efficacy
A census
Timbre
43. What is the chance of a baby having PKU?
Humanistic
Intestate
1 in 14 -000
5 & 6
44. What are: vibrations in the air that we receive through the ear to be processed?
Fontanels
Mental health
Sound waves
4
45. What is: term used to describe a person's belief that they can perform a task successfully?
Psychometrics
Self-efficacy
Alternative - or artificial - insemination
The cloth monkey
46. In the Harlow experiment: between the wire monkey+bottle - and cloth monkey+no bottle - which fake mother did the babies prefer?
Cephalocaudal
Explicit role instruction
The cloth monkey
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
47. What is: your sense of being a man or woman as defined by society?
The penis doesn't grow and breasts may develop.
Obstetrician-gynecologist - family practitioner - or midwife
Erik Erikson
Gender
48. Level 1 of Kohlberg's Theory of Moral Development
Excitement - plateau - orgasm - and resolution phases
Gender identity
Preconventional Morality
Conception
49. Who created structuralism?
RU-486
Gradually through shaping
Wilhelm Wundt
Figurative language
50. Whatmakes a person able to see objects are they are - in 3 dimensions?
Young Adult
Depth perception
Jean Piaget
Toddler
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