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DSST Lifespan Developmental Psychology
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1. True or False: Kohlberg believed that you go through each step of moral development one @ a time and could not skip them.
The right hand - right eye - and speech
Cesarean birth
Francis Bacon--16th century
True
2. Categories of old age: 75-84
Middle-old
Natural prepared childbirth
It measures a child against their peers - in that moment
Six or seven months
3. What is the enzyme deficiency that can cause mental retardation without treatment?
Fetal alcohol syndrome
Accommodation
Self-actualization
Phenylketonuria (PKU)
4. Who proposed fluid/crystallized intelligence?
Egocentrism
Raymond Cattell
Parasympathetic
The Montessori Method
5. What is the name for depth perception cues made with both eyes?
90%
Condom
Binocular cues
Cerebral cortex
6. Failure to thrive is caused by:
Cooing
90%
Recognition
Emotional neglect
7. Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs consists of which steps?
Base of the skull; size of a pea
Self-actualization - Esteem needs - Belonging and love - Safety - Physical needs
Cut in half
Fluid intelligence and crystal intelligence
8. Defense mechanism: you deny your feelings and come up with ways to justify your behavior
Rationalization
Gilligan
Frontal lobe
If the mom and child have different blood types - the mom's cells can attack the baby.
9. Which stage of development is: Identity vs. Role Confusion? (who am I)
Parietal lobe
Adolescent
Proximodistal
Corpus callosum
10. Time at which most children begin to speak actual words
Physical needs
10-14 months
Medicated delivery
Homosexual
11. What is: an experienced practitioner who can attend pregnancies and deliveries?
Midwife
Classification
Behavioral
1 & 2
12. Rang the bell each time he fed the dog; eventually how early did the dogs start salivating?
As soon as the bell was rung
1) Gather info - 2) Generate hypothesis - 3) Test hypothesis - 4) Revise
The skull - dura mater membrane - arachnoid layer - and pia mater.
Dyslexia
13. What are the two directions of growth in the embryo?
Ageism
Cephalocaudal and Proximodistal
Bias
Gender conservation
14. What are the four characteristics of perception?
Mental age/Chronological age - x 100
Preconventional - conventional - postconventional
Automatic - selective - contextual - and creative
Babbling
15. According to both Kohlberg and Piaget - the most immature reason to do something is to:
Babbling
Avoid punishment
Ivan Pavlov
No correlation
16. What is: your thoughts - beliefs - attitudes - and values
Mental health
Down syndrome
B.F. Skinner
Binocular cues
17. What are the three different types of teratogens?
Drugs - diseases (like HIV - rubella) - and pollutants (mercury - radiation - etc)
Increase
Ivan Pavlov
Authoritarian
18. How was the visual cliff study conducted?
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19. Level 3 of Kohlberg's Theory of Moral Development includes which stages
Content validity
Old Age
5 & 6
Suppression
20. What is the drug to cause an abortion in the first 9 weeks of pregnancy?
Three
Young Adult
Spiritual - emotional - mental - and social health
RU-486
21. What are the factors that influence psychosocial health?
Accommodation
Family situation - the world around you - lifespan - and maturity.
Selective
Nature vs. nurture
22. What controls breathing and heart rate?
6
Pons
Olfactory epithelium
The more accurate the result
23. What is: when a child can't be conceived via the usual method?
Phonemes
Adrenal glands
Infertility
Autoimmune Theory
24. What are the three things to monitor - to measure temperament in infants?
Excitement - plateau - orgasm - and resolution phases
Lewis Terman
Irritability - social responsiveness - and activity level
Stillbirth
25. What is: growth from the head downward (head develops before rest of the body)?
Genes
Nurture
Raymond Cattell
Cephalocaudal
26. What is: the ear's interpretation of a sound's frequency
Gestures
Allow the skull's plates of bone to shift or flex - making childbirth easier.
Pitch
Ivan Pavlov
27. What syndrome occurs when someone two X and one Y chromosome...and what gender does this make?
Kleinfelter Syndrome; male
Creative
Constant
Erik Erikson
28. Rogers and Maslow are both:
90%
Projection
Humanistic Theorists
John Bowlby's Attachment Theory
29. Removing something unpleasant from a situation - to make a behavior more likely
Independent variable
Negative reinforcer
Sexual identity
Puberty
30. Why did studies used by Piaget and Freud lead to wrong conclusions?
The brain stem
Natural observation
They were not scientifically performed
Maslow
31. Stages of friendship: one way assistance
Humanistic
90%
Positive Correlation
4-9
32. What is the factor that always stays the same?
Homophobia
Experimental research
Constant
Developmental norm
33. What types of drugs can hurt a developing fetus if taken by the mother?
All drugs - including over the counter - aspirin - coffee
The cloth monkey
Fluid intelligence and crystal intelligence
Denial
34. List the levels (in order) of Kohlberg's Theory of Moral Development
Proximodistal
Preconventional - conventional - postconventional
Autoerotic behavior
Pituitary gland
35. What are: drugs taken within three days to prevent pregnancy from instances such as no protection - or a broken condom?
More Knowledgeable Other (MKO)
Strong correlation
Emergency contraception
Egocentric behavior
36. What is the thought process that considers an idea or belief (thesis) and acknowledges the idea's opposite (antithesis)?
Humanistic
Denial (Shock)
Dialectical perspective
Social learning theory
37. What is: the process by which a society identifies its expectations?
Homophobia
Cochlea
Socialization
Absolute threshold
38. What is the white part of the eye that protects and manages the shape of the eye?
Belonging and love
Class inclusion
Selera
Hurried-child
39. What is: the theory to investigate the elements or 'structures' of the mind; classify structures and focus on conscious thought
Gender
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
Structuralism
Preoperational stage (ages 3-6)
40. Four steps of the scientific method include:
Sexual identity
Free morpheme
1) Gather info - 2) Generate hypothesis - 3) Test hypothesis - 4) Revise
Teratogens
41. What purpose do fontanels have?
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42. 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.
Invincibility fable
Accommodation
Mainstreaming
Cephalocaudal and Proximodistal
43. What is: the understanding of more advanced classification; that some sets are also sub-sets of a larger class?
Cerebral cortex
Class inclusion
Middle ear
Proximodistal
44. Dying w/o a will
Survey
Long labors or birth complications
Behavioral
Intestate
45. What is the term to describe the thinking part of health?
12+
Displacement
Content validity
Mental health
46. In a study - the researchers have direct control over this variable
Stage 2
Alzheimer's Disease
Cornea
Independent variable
47. What is the sense that gives information about balance and body movement? (if your body is moving - tilting - etc.)
Childhood depression
Stage 4
Vestibular sense
Retina
48. Second stage in the Kubler-Ross's Stages of Dying: 'This is unfair. Why me?'
Stillbirth
Pons
Anger (Emotion)
Clinical psychologist
49. What is the term for fraternal twins?
Dizygotic twins
All drugs - including over the counter - aspirin - coffee
Stimulus generalization
Wilhelm Wundt
50. Pavlovs famous classical conditioning dog experiment.
Left hand - left eye - and simple comprehension
Loudness
Bell would ring - then feed the dogs - Dogs would salivate when given food - Over time dogs began to salivate simply at ring of bell
1) Gather info - 2) Generate hypothesis - 3) Test hypothesis - 4) Revise