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DSST Lifespan Developmental Psychology
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Stages of friendship: intimate
Fetal death
Abstinence
Fit in
9-15
2. What is: a period in a child's development in which he/she is capable of understanding some things but not others
Best friend
Stage
Gestalt psychology
Denial
3. Stage in which you see the right action as what satisfies your personal needs; a person becomes aware of two different viewpoints
Fetal death
Stage 2
Olfactory sense
Occipital - temporal - frontal - and parietal.
4. The process of unassociating the condition with the response
Extinction
Hypothalamus
The brain
Autism
5. A system which uses operant conditioning to make less probable actions more likely to occur by using more probable actions as reinforcers
The Premack Principle
Double blind
Response extinction
Visual cliff
6. What is the term for the death of a child under one year - for no apparent reason?
Sexual identity
John Watson
Sudden Infant Death Syndrome
Operant conditioning
7. What is: the bumps on top of the tongue that contain taste buds?
Papillae
Set high standards - assist along the way
Alternative - or artificial - insemination
Accommodation
8. 1 -3 -4 -5 -7 -8 -10 what is the median?
Create and release chemicals into the blood
Morphemes
Intrinsic reinforcer
5
9. How was the visual cliff study conducted?
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10. Second development of language - still pre-speech; repetition of meaningful sounds
Convergent thinking
Rubella
Babbling
Middle-old
11. What are the four lobes of the brain?
Occipital - temporal - frontal - and parietal.
Fetal death
Bound morpheme
Young Adult
12. Which stage of development is: Autonomy vs. Shame and Doubt (making their own decisions)
Morality of Care
Survey
Quantitative
Toddler
13. Which lobe is related to body sensations?
Zygote
Independent variable
Parietal lobe
Osteoporosis
14. Experiment when none of the doctors - researchers - and participants know who is getting the real drug
Punishment
RU-486
Injections
Double blind
15. Does a gamete (reproductive) cell have full or half set of chromosomes?
Androgynous
Miscarriages or stillbirths
Half (23)
Deferred imitation
16. How many PAIRS of chromosomes do body cells have?
Conceive at younger ages
9-15
Irritability - social responsiveness - and activity level
23 pairs
17. What is: the theory to investigate the elements or 'structures' of the mind; classify structures and focus on conscious thought
Adolescent Egocentrism
Structuralism
Figurative language
Biological; Behavioral; Cognitive; Humanistic; Psychoanalytical; Structuralism; Functionalism; Nature vs. Nurture
18. Putting disabled students w/ normal students
Pavlov; classical conditioning
Multiple caretakers
Mainstreaming
Selera
19. In a kibbutz - the real parents of children may see them for one hour a day - a time referred to as the __________.
Allow the skull's plates of bone to shift or flex - making childbirth easier.
They can be coached into learning a type of test--do better or worse - etc.
Echolalia
Hour of love
20. Fourth stage in the Kubler-Ross's Stages of Dying: 'There's nothing I can do about this'
A census
Occipital lobe
Preparatory Depression
Explicit role instruction
21. What is another name for a newborn?
Elaboration
Neonate
Outer ear
10
22. What two other chemicals do the adrenal glands secrete?
Pons
Epinephrine and norepinephrine
Noise
Old Age
23. What do endocrine glands do?
Laboratory observation
Create and release chemicals into the blood
Perception
Placebo effect
24. What is: the period of sexual maturation?
Norplant
Personality
Sudden Infant Death Syndrome
Puberty
25. What 4 main problems do fetal alcohol syndrome cause?
Ivan Pavlov
Prenatal development
Autonomic Nervous System
Slowed growth - body/face malfunctions - nervous system disorders - mental retardation.
26. What is: an M.D. who specializes in OB-GYN?
Raymond Cattell
Strong correlation
Spiritual health
Obstetrician-gynecologist
27. The final stage of Maslow's Hierarchy of needs. A stage you may never actually meet.
6
Self-actualization
In vitro fertilization
IUD
28. What is the chance of having a boy or girl - according to Mendel's experiments in genetics?
Free morpheme
No correlation
6-12
50%
29. What syndrome is characterized by small stature - poor coordination - hyperactive - learning disabilities - mental retardation - or large head?
Operant conditioning
Fetal Alcohol Syndrome
The more accurate the result
John Bowlby's Attachment Theory
30. What is: the part of the ear inside the cochlea; contains sensors that change energy into impulses to be decoded by the brain?
Organ of corti
Puberty
Because at birth cells aren't well connected (lacking in myelin - or nerve insulation)
B.F. Skinner
31. What is the transparent part in the front of the eye?
Avoid punishment
Lens
3
Semantics
32. What is the opening of the iris - which looks black?
Pupil
Binocular cues
Gender
Cephalocaudal
33. Age at which most children will identify specific 'best-friends'
Mental health
10
Occipital lobe
Biological; Behavioral; Cognitive; Humanistic; Psychoanalytical; Structuralism; Functionalism; Nature vs. Nurture
34. What is: not being involved in a sexual relationship?
Alternative - or artificial - insemination
Selera
Pitch
Celibacy
35. What is: the ability to group objects together on the basis of common features?
Independent variable
Classification
Dyscalcula
Psychoanalytical
36. What is: T-shaped device implanted in uterus by a physician for five to ten years at a time?
Gilligan
Sterilization
IUD
Dependent variable
37. What is the conception alternative where semen is deposited into the body via a thin tube?
Closure
Alternative - or artificial - insemination
Independent variable
Nurture
38. Defense mechanism: feelings are redirected to someone else
Displacement
The right hand - right eye - and speech
Sympathetic nervous system
As they age
39. What is: term used to describe a person's belief that they can perform a task successfully?
Longitudinal fissure
Self-efficacy
Double blind
Depo-Provera
40. Level 2 of Kohlberg's Theory of Moral Development includes which stages
Clinical psychologist
90%
5
3 & 4
41. True or False: Kohlberg believed that you go through each step of moral development one @ a time and could not skip them.
True
90%
Self-actualization
Sublimation
42. How does the pupil work?
10-14 months
Sampling
Opens and closes to let the correct amount of light in
Cooing
43. What are the three different areas of the Autonomic Nervous System?
Cognitive improvement
Sympathetic - parasympathetic - and enteric
Survey
Denial (Shock)
44. What is: a permanent facility control done through surgical procedures?
Cephalocaudal
Echolalia
Sterilization
Fontanels
45. Defense mechanism: Turning a feeling into the exact opposite feeling
Reaction Formation
Zone of Proximal Development
10
Reciprocal determinism
46. Children that are raised on the Kibbutz are used to study the effects of what?
Semantics
Classical conditioning works more to explain reflexive or unconscious reactions - Operant conditioning works to explain elective actions and reactions
Multiple caretakers
Alfred Binet
47. A number between +1 and -1 that measures the strength between two variables
Occipital lobe
Correlation coefficient
Babbling
Preoperational stage (ages 3-6)
48. A morpheme that must be w/ a word
John Watson
Fluid intelligence and crystal intelligence
Bound morpheme
Heterosexual
49. Who made the first IQ test?
Gender roles
Alfred Binet
William James
Free morpheme
50. If you are A positive blood - what is that in terms of Rh factor?
Rh positive
All drugs - including over the counter - aspirin - coffee
School-age Child
Selective