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DSST Lifespan Developmental Psychology

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1. What percentage of children are affected by hyperactivity?
Modeling
Id
Obstetrician-gynecologist
Three percent

2. Observing someone's behavior and basing our own behavior on it
Cooing
Modeling
Hypothalamus
Gestalt psychology

3. How is ADHD diagnosed?
Osteoporosis
Lewis Terman
Cross Sectional Study
Up to 6 months of observation by doctors

4. A medical doctor with a degree who specializes in psychotherapy - who can prescribe drugs
Psychiatrist
Habituation
Toxic shock syndrome
Gestures

5. Rang the bell each time he fed the dog; eventually how early did the dogs start salivating?
As soon as the bell was rung
Preconventional - conventional - postconventional
Three
5

6. Method that teaches children to realized their full potential.
Natural observation
Midwife
True
The Montessori Method

7. What is the medical means to terminate a pregnancy?
Cognitive improvement
Abortion
Pitch
Cerebrospinal fluid

8. When someone sees an incomplete form - they fill in the pieces and perceive it as it would be that way. What Gestalt principle is this an example of?
Closure
Sampling
Old Age
Adrenal glands

9. When does language development begin?
Six months
Social aspect of language
Kubler-Ross's Stages of Dying
Unoccupied behavior - onlooker - solitary independent (plays alone) - parallel play (plays around but not w/ others) - associative - cooperative play

10. A term used to describe something similar in structure or organization
Cooing
Family practitioner
Sound waves
Qualitative

11. The negative effects of sensory deprivation (not as much attention) are more likely to _______ w/ the length of the stage.
Increase
Sympathetic nervous system
Selera
Humanistic

12. Which part of the ANS is the calming part of the system?
Closure
Parasympathetic
Cornea and lens
Divergent thinking

13. How much are the eyes developed in newborns?
The skull - dura mater membrane - arachnoid layer - and pia mater.
Cross-modal perception
Raymond Cattell
Not fully developed; but can distinguish color - track movement - and bright objects.

14. Children learn and form their conscience and thoughts of what is acceptable behavior from what?
Super Ego
Watching their parents
Ferdinand Lamaze
Explicit role instruction

15. All senses report to the thalamus except for one--which?
Iris
Smell
Operation
Spiritual - emotional - mental - and social health

16. What are the four layers that protect the brain?
Bargaining
Gentle birth
Celibacy
The skull - dura mater membrane - arachnoid layer - and pia mater.

17. What is a sometimes-fatal disease occuring from the excessive use of tampons - or leaving a diaphragm in - for longer than prescribed time?
Drugs - diseases (like HIV - rubella) - and pollutants (mercury - radiation - etc)
Reciprocal determinism
Cornea
Toxic shock syndrome

18. First stage in the Kubler-Ross's Stages of Dying: 'This could never happen to me. This must be a mistake'
Denial (Shock)
Social development or social cognition
4
Mentally retarded

19. Pavlovs famous classical conditioning dog experiment.
Infant
Have more bland personalities and often difficult for them to create and maintain intimate relationships as they have a lack of emotional depth
Olfactory sense
Bell would ring - then feed the dogs - Dogs would salivate when given food - Over time dogs began to salivate simply at ring of bell

20. Second stage in the Kubler-Ross's Stages of Dying: 'This is unfair. Why me?'
Monocular cues
Anger (Emotion)
Personality
Middle ear

21. Defense mechanism: transferring your thoughts and feelings onto others
Projection
Multiple caretakers
4-9
Automatic

22. Children that are raised on the Kibbutz will often:
Sympathetic - parasympathetic - and enteric
Experimental research
9-15
Have more bland personalities and often difficult for them to create and maintain intimate relationships as they have a lack of emotional depth

23. What is: a progesterone shot given every three months?
Half (23)
Depo-Provera
Critical period
Papillae

24. A collection of data from all cases or people in the chosen set
A census
Norplant
Unoccupied behavior - onlooker - solitary independent (plays alone) - parallel play (plays around but not w/ others) - associative - cooperative play
Mendel

25. Why is self-report data not as reliable as other research methods?
Gerontology
Frequency
Bound morpheme
Subjects may be dishonest w/ their answers

26. What is the part of the ear that includes the eardrum - anvil - and stirrup?
Genetic Mutation
Id
Not fully developed; but can distinguish color - track movement - and bright objects.
Middle ear

27. What kind of problem can it cause when a husband and wife have different blood types?

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28. What is the main relay station for incoming sensory signals to the cerebral cortex - and outgoing motor signals from it?
Bound morpheme
Thalamus
Noise
Classification

29. 1 -2 -2 -2 -3 -3 -5 -8 -9 -9. What is the mode?
Infertility
Classical conditioning works more to explain reflexive or unconscious reactions - Operant conditioning works to explain elective actions and reactions
Authoritative
2

30. What is: the understanding of more advanced classification; that some sets are also sub-sets of a larger class?
Class inclusion
Naturalistic observation
Jean Piaget
As they age

31. A baby repeating what you just said
Dialectical perspective
Cesarean birth
Epinephrine and norepinephrine
Echolalia

32. What is the study done to show that infants have depth perception?
Visual cliff
Longitudinal Study
Lewis Terman
Gonads

33. What is: the method to prevent an egg and sperm from being able to access each other?
Vygotsky
Phenylketonuria (PKU)
Raymond Cattell
Contraception

34. What is: any pill designed to prevent pregnancy?
Allow the skull's plates of bone to shift or flex - making childbirth easier.
Oral contraceptives
Infants were placed on a solid - opaque surface - and the mothers were placed at the end of the table - where the opaque ended and glass begun. The infants didn't want to cross the glass because they could see the distance between themselves and the
Biological

35. What is another name for a newborn?
Maslow
Increase
Neonate
It measures a child against their peers - in that moment

36. What is: attraction to both sexes?
Fetal tobacco syndrome
Fetal death
6
Bisexual

37. A higher number of the correlation coefficient closer to the number one shows a:
Noise
Strong correlation
Encoding the information - represnting the information - and retrieving information from memory.
Kohlberg

38. What is: psychological definition for having more equal personality characteristics between male&female?
Androgynous
Create and release chemicals into the blood
Oral contraceptives
Women - men

39. What is: the type of thought related to numerical and intellectual puzzles--with both quick & creative responses?
Smell
Nature
Fluid intelligence
23 pairs

40. How does the pupil work?
Object permanence
Opens and closes to let the correct amount of light in
Semantics
Functionalism

41. A morpheme that can be a word on its own
Free morpheme
Avoid punishment
Stage
Teratogens

42. 1 + 5 + 6. What is the mean?
4
Cross-modal perception
Wilhelm Wundt
First trimester

43. What is caused by one extra chromosome in the number 21?
Down syndrome
Double blind
As soon as the bell was rung
Authoritarian

44. What sends commands to all other parts of the body?
Inner ear
The brain stem
Condom
Egocentric behavior

45. When people w/in an experiment are assigned to a group randomly
Daydreaming
Random assignment
Longitudinal Study
Half (23)

46. What are the three parts of memory?
Jean Piaget
Encoding the information - represnting the information - and retrieving information from memory.
Rite of Passage
Emotional neglect

47. A method of modifying behavior - by ignoring the behavior so you don't have the response
Response extinction
Put babies on their backs to sleep - and not have anything extra (toys - pillows etc) in the bed or crib.
Monocular cues
Cross-modal perception

48. Which though process is follower thinking?
Francis Bacon--16th century
Cerebral palsy
Convergent thinking
Irritability - social responsiveness - and activity level

49. Third stage in the Kubler-Ross's Stages of Dying: 'If you don't die I will do the following...'
Rods
Social learning theory
Dependent variable
Bargaining

50. Children are most likely to achieve if parents:
Set high standards - assist along the way
Spiritual - emotional - mental - and social health
Cut in half
Elaboration