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DSST Lifespan Developmental Psychology
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Self-aware - recognized - defined
Raymond Cattell
Infant
Self-concept
Cochlea
2. What are the three parts of memory?
Encoding the information - represnting the information - and retrieving information from memory.
Mental age/Chronological age - x 100
Limbic system
Informed consent
3. A reinforcer that is physical (tangible) or from the environment - like payment for work - or a prize
Median
Psychological maltreatment
Positive reinforcer
Extrinsic reinforcer
4. What is: the bumps on top of the tongue that contain taste buds?
Visual cliff
RU-486
Norplant
Papillae
5. First stage in the Kubler-Ross's Stages of Dying: 'This could never happen to me. This must be a mistake'
Multiple caretakers
RU-486
Denial (Shock)
...
6. How is ADHD diagnosed?
Ivan Pavlov
Virginia Apgar - or Apgar Rating
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
Up to 6 months of observation by doctors
7. What is: sheath of thin latex designed to catch sperm upon ejaculation?
Biological
Condom
Temporal lobe
Mainstreaming
8. What is: the elated feeling adolescents have - that they are immune to risks - mortality and probability; false sense of security thinking they will never fall or get caught.
Lewis Terman
Invincibility fable
Subjects may be dishonest w/ their answers
3
9. Defense mechanism: hiding the feelings and not acknowledging them
Cross Sectional Study
Suppression
Modeling
Reinforcer
10. What determines physical traits and is inherited from one or both parents?
Gene
Dependent variable
Cephalocaudal
Prenatal development
11. Stages that a person goes through when they find out they have an incurable disease or find out they are going to die
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12. Which receptor is used for color vision?
Hour of love
Cellular Theory
Peer group
Cones
13. How much alcohol is the safe amount to consume during pregnancy?
5
Recognition
Have more bland personalities and often difficult for them to create and maintain intimate relationships as they have a lack of emotional depth
None!!
14. What are the 8 psychological approaches?
Natural observation
Id - Ego - Super Ego
Three
Biological; Behavioral; Cognitive; Humanistic; Psychoanalytical; Structuralism; Functionalism; Nature vs. Nurture
15. By the time they reach middle childhood - most girls will identify with one and only one _______.
Morality of Justice
Gene
Best friend
Response extinction
16. Level 1 of Kohlberg's Theory of Moral Development
Base of the skull; size of a pea
Deferred imitation
Phenylketonuria (PKU)
Preconventional Morality
17. Why are IQ scores only accurate for short periods of time?
It measures a child against their peers - in that moment
Conceive at younger ages
Papillae
Natural prepared childbirth
18. Categories of old age: 65-74
Adolescent
Young-old
Bias
Conception
19. What is another term for the system of hearing?
Correlation Research
The right hand - right eye - and speech
Auditory System
Dura mater
20. In a kibbutz - the real parents of children may see them for one hour a day - a time referred to as the __________.
Homosexual
The cloth monkey
Hour of love
Binocular cues
21. A test that gives information about a participant including standardized tests such as aptitude - interest - and personality tests
Psychological Tests
B.F. Skinner
Cerebrum
Fluid intelligence and crystal intelligence
22. When do the two fontanels harden?
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23. What is the perception characteristic that: you don't have to think about it for it to happen?
Francis Bacon--16th century
Fit in
Fluid intelligence
Automatic
24. What is: located in the limbic system - with primary function to store memories?
Pia mater
Commissures
Emotional health
Hippocampus
25. A correlation coefficient of zero
Bisexual
Absolute threshold
No correlation
Cephalocaudal
26. What are the four areas of taste that taste-buds recognize?
If the mom and child have different blood types - the mom's cells can attack the baby.
Sweet - bitter - salty - sour
Middle-old
Socialization
27. 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
Absolute threshold
B.F. Skinner
Rubella
Survey
28. Stage in which a person makes decisions according to his or her conscience; the universal ethical principal orientation; not many people ever reach this stage
Stage 6
Raymond Cattell
Holophrase syntax
Allow the skull's plates of bone to shift or flex - making childbirth easier.
29. Which stage of development is: Initiative vs. Guilt? (trying different roles)
Contraception
Pituitary gland
Preschooler
Self-esteem
30. Which lobe is related to hearing?
Temporal lobe
Create and release chemicals into the blood
Invincibility fable
Frequency
31. Why is self-report data not as reliable as other research methods?
6-12
Encoding the information - represnting the information - and retrieving information from memory.
Subjects may be dishonest w/ their answers
Autonomic Nervous System
32. When one variable increase - another variable increases. We call this a what?
Dialectical perspective
True
Positive Correlation
Midwife
33. What is: the way the brain organizes and gives meaning to information provided by the senses?
Allow the skull's plates of bone to shift or flex - making childbirth easier.
RU-486
Perception
William James
34. What two things make up the central nervous system?
Perception
Recall
Brain and spinal cord
Harry Harlow
35. In the Harlow experiment: between the wire monkey+bottle - and cloth monkey+no bottle - which fake mother did the babies prefer?
The cloth monkey
Rh positive
Stage 3
The cerebrum
36. What is being able to reproduce knowledge from memory?
Qualitative
Socialization
Recall
Functionalism
37. What kind of problem can it cause when a husband and wife have different blood types?
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38. Level 2 of Kohlberg's Theory of Moral Development includes which stages
Stillbirth
Commissures
Conservation
3 & 4
39. A medical doctor with a degree who specializes in psychotherapy - who can prescribe drugs
Rubella
Inner ear
Raymond Cattell
Psychiatrist
40. What does the left half of the brain control?
Explicit role instruction
Contraception
The right hand - right eye - and speech
Morality of Care
41. What is the characteristic that: you may be more interested in a person - rather than what she is saying?
Punishment
No correlation
Stage 6
Selective
42. What are the two different classifications of intelligence?
Outer ear
5
Dyslexia
Fluid intelligence and crystal intelligence
43. What is a learning disability in math - where concepts are learned one day and forgotten the next?
Selective attention
Dyscalcula
Thalamus
Androgynous
44. Final stage in the Kubler-Ross's Stages of Dying: 'I'm ready'
Double blind
Developmental norm
Frequency
Acceptance
45. Putting disabled students w/ normal students
A census
Mainstreaming
Raymond Cattell
Obstetrician-gynecologist
46. Defense mechanism: transferring your thoughts and feelings onto others
Projection
Intrinsic reinforcer
Convergent thinking
Dyscalcula
47. What is the sense that gives information about balance and body movement? (if your body is moving - tilting - etc.)
Cross Sectional Study
Negative reinforcer
Vestibular sense
Dizygotic twins
48. Who created functionalism?
Toxic shock syndrome
Socialization
William James
Neonate
49. Aside from learning disabilities - what physical problem do Kleinfelter people have?
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50. Who thought of the mind as a stream of consciousness--a flow of emotions - sensations and thoughts?
Base of the skull; size of a pea
Punishment
Alzheimer's Disease
William James