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DSST Lifespan Developmental Psychology
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1. What is the term for lack of responsiveness to other people?
Autism
Obstetrician-gynecologist - family practitioner - or midwife
Oral contraceptives
Daydreaming
2. Children learn and form their conscience and thoughts of what is acceptable behavior from what?
Watching their parents
Injections
Because at birth cells aren't well connected (lacking in myelin - or nerve insulation)
Five
3. Disagreed w/ Kohlberg's Theory of Moral Development because his subjects were mainly male
Suppression
On chromosomes
Emergency contraception
Gilligan
4. What is: attraction to both sexes?
Appearance - pulse - grimace (reflex) - activity - and respiration
Bisexual
Constant
Nature
5. Children that are raised on the Kibbutz are used to study the effects of what?
Creative
Parasympathetic
Multiple caretakers
Bell would ring - then feed the dogs - Dogs would salivate when given food - Over time dogs began to salivate simply at ring of bell
6. What is the chance of having a boy or girl - according to Mendel's experiments in genetics?
Dyscalcula
Ego
Hippocampus
50%
7. What is the name for the bundles of axons - used to communicate between the two halves of brain?
Middle-age Adult
Belonging and love
Commissures
Phenylketonuria (PKU)
8. What is: long lasting contraceptive where six capsules are injected in a woman's arm?
A will
Peer group
B.F. Skinner
Norplant
9. What is: the tone color or perceptual quality of a sound?
Kohlberg
Negative reinforcer
Timbre
Denial
10. What is: not being involved in a sexual relationship?
The cerebrum
9-15
Celibacy
Unoccupied behavior - onlooker - solitary independent (plays alone) - parallel play (plays around but not w/ others) - associative - cooperative play
11. The repetition of certain syllables
Babbling
Social learning theory
Olfactory epithelium
Personality
12. Putting disabled students w/ normal students
Mainstreaming
Psychometrics
Punishment
Subjects may be dishonest w/ their answers
13. First step in Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs such as food water and shelter
Mental age/Chronological age - x 100
Preoperational stage (ages 3-6)
Physical needs
Conservation
14. Which of these diseases can cause miscarriage - stillbirth - heart defects - deafness - and other problems?
Norplant
Rubella
Thalamus
Psychometrics
15. Who developed the theory of social development?
Vygotsky
Spermicides
2
Mostly developed by the time of birth
16. What is the very critical period of the first 3 months in the womb?
Sexually transmitted diseases
Prenatal development
Accommodation
5 & 6
17. A link between a stimulus and a response in which a person or animal associates or substitutes a neutral stimulus with the actual stimulus
Classical conditioning
Short attention span
Cross-modal perception
Sweet - bitter - salty - sour
18. Rang the bell each time he fed the dog; eventually how early did the dogs start salivating?
Mode
Preconventional Morality
Hurried-child
As soon as the bell was rung
19. Infants develop a secure attachment when parents pay attention to and respond to a child's needs. What theory includes this statement?
Psychoanalytic theory
Obstetrician-gynecologist - family practitioner - or midwife
Gender
Crystallized intelligence
20. What is: irrelevant stimuli that compete for our attention (like traffic)
Set high standards - assist along the way
Noise
Mental health
B.F. Skinner
21. Where are genes carried?
On chromosomes
Chomsky
Hypothalamus
Six or seven months
22. What is the ability to identify correctly something encountered before?
Phenylketonuria (PKU)
Recognition
Telegraphic speech
3
23. What is: a statistical measure of typical scores for categories of information?
Medicated delivery
Developmental norm
Self-concept
Homosexual
24. What is: the type of thought that has to do with factual information--trivia - vocabulary - science - history?
5
Crystallized intelligence
Psychological maltreatment
Classical conditioning works more to explain reflexive or unconscious reactions - Operant conditioning works to explain elective actions and reactions
25. What is the medical term for birth of a dead baby?
Infant
Iris
Gene
Stillbirth
26. What are: general term for the reproductive organs in a male or female?
Gonads
Divergent thinking
Absolute threshold
Extinction
27. What syndrome occurs when someone two X and one Y chromosome...and what gender does this make?
Kleinfelter Syndrome; male
Independent variable
ADHD
Closure
28. Third element: There is a gap between what the child can do with help - and what they can do on their own; shows when a child has finally learned it
Zone of Proximal Development
As soon as the bell was rung
Inner ear
Self-efficacy
29. How was the visual cliff study conducted?
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30. Gifted children often hide gifts to ______.
Fit in
Self-actualization - Esteem needs - Belonging and love - Safety - Physical needs
Class inclusion
Bell would ring - then feed the dogs - Dogs would salivate when given food - Over time dogs began to salivate simply at ring of bell
31. What purpose do fontanels have?
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32. What are: chemicals designed to kill sperm?
Three
Young Adult
Habituation
Spermicides
33. What controls breathing and heart rate?
Old-old
Kleinfelter Syndrome; male
You need two - one from each parent - to conceive.
Pons
34. Age at with children start feeling a fear of the dark - which can be strong and appear suddenly
Fetal alcohol syndrome
Gestalt psychology
6
Semantics
35. Jean Piaget extensively used which research method to study children?
Fetal alcohol syndrome
Morphemes
Jean Piaget
Natural observation
36. A number between +1 and -1 that measures the strength between two variables
Psychometrics
Resilient child
Naturalistic observation
Correlation coefficient
37. What is: the way the brain organizes and gives meaning to information provided by the senses?
Fluid intelligence
Absolute threshold
The posterior (back) fontanel: within two months of birth. The anterior (front) fontanel: by the child's 2nd birthday.
Perception
38. What is a disease also called German measles?
Independent variable
Sexual identity
Rubella
Self-esteem
39. Children that are raised on the Kibbutz will often:
Have more bland personalities and often difficult for them to create and maintain intimate relationships as they have a lack of emotional depth
Base of the skull; size of a pea
Natural observation
Ethics
40. Extension of 'actions speak louder than words' in behavior; follow others' examples despite their words.
Middle-old
Social learning theory
More Knowledgeable Other (MKO)
Depth perception
41. What is the term for oxygen deficiency to the brain?
Displacement
Cerebral anoxia
9-15
Mainstreaming
42. Which thought process is a creative process?
Fontanels
Explicit role instruction
Class inclusion
Divergent thinking
43. Who argued that if psychology was a true science - then psychologists should only study what they could see and measure (behaviorist theory)?
John Watson
Operation
Critical period
Independent variable
44. 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
Dyslexia
Holophrase syntax
50%
Pituitary gland
45. What is the characteristic that: you fill in areas that we do not have complete information about?
Papillae
Pupil
Creative
Operant Conditioning
46. A method of modifying behavior - by ignoring the behavior so you don't have the response
Response extinction
Operant conditioning
Autoimmune Theory
Appearance - pulse - grimace (reflex) - activity - and respiration
47. Why does a gamete have a half set of chromosomes?
Psychometrics
Teratogens
Set high standards - assist along the way
You need two - one from each parent - to conceive.
48. Why did studies used by Piaget and Freud lead to wrong conclusions?
Biological
Fetal death
Closure
They were not scientifically performed
49. Imitation of a past-observed behavior
More Knowledgeable Other (MKO)
Positive reinforcer
Family practitioner
Deferred imitation
50. Once the disease strikes - an individual w/ Alzheimer's disease usually has their life expectancy is:
Cut in half
Behavioral
School-age Child
Set high standards - assist along the way