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DSST Lifespan Developmental Psychology
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1. What is: when a child can't be conceived via the usual method?
Selective attention
Divergent thinking
Infertility
Subject
2. What are the factors that influence psychosocial health?
Androgynous
Homophobia
Family situation - the world around you - lifespan - and maturity.
None!!
3. What is: the most developed - and largest (80%) - part of the brain?
Mode
Adrenal glands
Strong correlation
Cerebral cortex
4. A lower number of the correlation coefficient - closer to the number zero shows a:
Extrinsic reinforcer
Ethics
Bisexual
Weak correlation
5. What two diseases - when caught early in the pregnancy - are most dangerous to the fetus?
Preschooler
Syphillis and rubella
Morphemes
Chomsky
6. Third development of language
Cross-modal perception
Young Adult
Hollow phrases
Morality of Justice
7. The distortion of the results
Gender identity
Old Age
Stage 6
Bias
8. What is when the baby is born in a pool or bath with dim lights?
First trimester
Gentle birth
3
Papillae
9. What is the name for the bundles of axons - used to communicate between the two halves of brain?
Sexually transmitted diseases
Maslow
Commissures
Olfactory epithelium
10. What is: the theory based on biology; belief that behavior and personality are linked to genetics
10
Occipital lobe
Biological
Equilibrium
11. Level 3 of Kohlberg's Theory of Moral Development includes which stages
Monozygotic twins
...
5 & 6
Adolescent Egocentrism
12. What is: dynamic blend of our experiences - heredity - environment - etc. which determines how we react to problems/issues?
Personality
Hollow phrases
Mental age/Chronological age - x 100
Hour of love
13. Read pages 22-25 for charts: Piaget's Stages of Development and Freud's Psychosexual Stages
Occipital - temporal - frontal - and parietal.
Operation
Drugs - diseases (like HIV - rubella) - and pollutants (mercury - radiation - etc)
...
14. What is the most dangerous trimester for the fetus (in regard to drug/alcohol use)?
Cellular Theory
First trimester
True
Oral contraceptives
15. What is the clear membrane in front of the eye that protects it?
Cornea
Correlation Research
Sampling
Natural observation
16. Which though process is follower thinking?
Automatic - selective - contextual - and creative
Convergent thinking
Cross-modal perception
Adolescent Egocentrism
17. 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
Independent variable
Holophrase syntax
Deferred imitation
Base of the skull; size of a pea
18. Which stage of development is: Generativity vs. Stagnation? (giving to the next generation)
Middle-age Adult
Put babies on their backs to sleep - and not have anything extra (toys - pillows etc) in the bed or crib.
Depo-Provera
Stage 5
19. What is the rating system to judge a baby's functionality when first born?
Binocular cues
Virginia Apgar - or Apgar Rating
Gentle birth
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. What is: expression of your maleness or femaleness on a daily basis?
Watching their parents
B.F. Skinner
Ageism
Gender roles
21. What is the method in which a variable and constant are use to test theories?
Autoerotic behavior
RU-486
Experimental research
Babbling
22. What syndrome occurs when someone two X and one Y chromosome...and what gender does this make?
Permissive
Teratogens
Full (46)
Kleinfelter Syndrome; male
23. What is the thought process that considers an idea or belief (thesis) and acknowledges the idea's opposite (antithesis)?
Cephalocaudal and Proximodistal
Dialectical perspective
Self-esteem
Sublimation
24. Time at which most children begin to speak actual words
The posterior (back) fontanel: within two months of birth. The anterior (front) fontanel: by the child's 2nd birthday.
First trimester
Recognition
10-14 months
25. What is the main symptom of hyperactivity?
Weak correlation
Reciprocal determinism
Short attention span
Old-old
26. What is: when adolescents truly believe themselves to be the center of the universe to those around them?
Daydreaming
Adolescent Egocentrism
Cerebral anoxia
William James
27. Defense mechanism: hiding the feelings and not acknowledging them
Middle-age Adult
Social health
Slowed growth - body/face malfunctions - nervous system disorders - mental retardation.
Suppression
28. What is: the amount of pressure produced by a sound wave - measured in decibels?
Modeling
Reciprocal determinism
Amplitude
Skin appearance - 'age spots' - hair
29. A test that gives information about a participant including standardized tests such as aptitude - interest - and personality tests
Psychological Tests
Sterilization
Developmental norm
Amplitude
30. One's wishes for the distribution of one's property and possessions after death
Abortion
A will
Six months
Family practitioner
31. Individual sounds w/ in a word
Contraception
Fluid intelligence and crystal intelligence
Nurture
Phonemes
32. What is the term for the death of a child under one year - for no apparent reason?
Bargaining
Mostly developed by the time of birth
Cornea
Sudden Infant Death Syndrome
33. Theory by Bandura; the interaction of a person's personality - the environment - and the behavior.
Bell would ring - then feed the dogs - Dogs would salivate when given food - Over time dogs began to salivate simply at ring of bell
90%
Reciprocal determinism
Best friend
34. What is: the theory focused on the individual's unconscious motivations?
Francis Bacon--16th century
Kubler-Ross's Stages of Dying
Psychoanalytical
Autoimmune Theory
35. What is a disease also called German measles?
Critical period
Naturalistic observation
Rubella
Social aspect of language
36. Why is self-report data not as reliable as other research methods?
Wilhelm Wundt
Base of the skull; size of a pea
Abortion
Subjects may be dishonest w/ their answers
37. Where a group of people live together and the children of all the people are raised by one or two people
Five
Short attention span
Kibbutz
Conservation
38. What is the part of the ear that includes the pinna and external auditory canal?
Women - men
Dyslexia
Selera
Outer ear
39. Who proposed fluid/crystallized intelligence?
Adolescent
Cephalocaudal and Proximodistal
Raymond Cattell
Ageism
40. When can a person's short term memory become incapacitated?
Babbling
As they age
Cross-modal perception
Through actions - doing what you believe is correct
41. What is: sheath of thin latex designed to catch sperm upon ejaculation?
Around age two
Condom
Unoccupied behavior - onlooker - solitary independent (plays alone) - parallel play (plays around but not w/ others) - associative - cooperative play
Stage 6
42. Which lobe is related to vision?
Gradually through shaping
Dizygotic twins
Occipital lobe
Homosexual
43. What is the middle number in a set of data called?
Median
Classical conditioning
They can be coached into learning a type of test--do better or worse - etc.
Stage 2
44. What is the perception characteristic that: you don't have to think about it for it to happen?
Automatic
Excitement - plateau - orgasm - and resolution phases
Crystallized intelligence
Social health
45. A correlation coefficient of zero
Rh positive
No correlation
Pitch
Cut in half
46. What is the sense that gives information about balance and body movement? (if your body is moving - tilting - etc.)
Positive Correlation
Vestibular sense
Pupil
Accommodation
47. Used to show links between people - events - actions - behaviors - etc. while not determining the caus - rather is linked to statistics
1 & 2
Amniocentesis
Correlation Research
First trimester
48. What is the chance of a baby having PKU?
Dependent variable
1 in 14 -000
Mental age/Chronological age - x 100
Bell would ring - then feed the dogs - Dogs would salivate when given food - Over time dogs began to salivate simply at ring of bell
49. Stages of friendship: intimate
Psychoanalytic theory
9-15
Social learning theory
Mental health
50. What is the medical means to terminate a pregnancy?
Abortion
Denial (Shock)
Selective
Mentally retarded
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