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DSST Lifespan Developmental Psychology
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Defense mechanism: you deny your feelings and come up with ways to justify your behavior
The Montessori Method
Operant Conditioning
Rationalization
Sympathetic - parasympathetic - and enteric
2. When does language development begin?
Six months
Emergency contraception
Cognitive theorist
Adolescent
3. Which lobe is related to body sensations?
Parietal lobe
Temporal lobe
Personality
Accommodation
4. Who thought of the mind as a stream of consciousness--a flow of emotions - sensations and thoughts?
William James
The meanlinkk of utterance (how long their sentences are)
Resilient child
Positive Correlation
5. The process of unassociating the condition with the response
Preconventional Morality
The more accurate the result
Extinction
Proximodistal
6. What are the different types of caregivers for pregnancy?
Obstetrician-gynecologist - family practitioner - or midwife
Ethics
1 in 14 -000
Middle ear
7. What is: the process by which a person takes material into their mind from the environment - which may mean changing sensory evidence to make it fit?
Amniocentesis
Fluid intelligence
Assimilation
Dialectical perspective
8. What percentage of children are affected by hyperactivity?
Francis Bacon--16th century
Visual cliff
Three percent
Down syndrome
9. Defense mechanism: feelings are redirected to someone else
Contraception
...
RU-486
Displacement
10. Children learn and form their conscience and thoughts of what is acceptable behavior from what?
Nurture
Watching their parents
Occipital - temporal - frontal - and parietal.
Functionalism
11. 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
Socialization
Nature vs. nurture
Smell
Zone of Proximal Development
12. What is the chance of a baby having PKU?
Epinephrine and norepinephrine
As they age
1 in 14 -000
Pia mater
13. What is: the representation in the mind of a set of perceptions - ideas - and actions - which go together
Schema
Placebo effect
Hurried-child
Dialectical perspective
14. Time at which most children begin to speak actual words
Up to 6 months of observation by doctors
Inner ear
10-14 months
Increase
15. Who created the first scientific psychology laboratory?
Sterilization
Spiritual health
Fetal alcohol syndrome
Wilhelm Wundt
16. What is: the belief that you are the center of the universe and everything revolves around you - and the inability to see the world as someone else does and adapt to it.
Egocentrism
Consciousness
Erogenous zones
Socialization
17. What purpose do fontanels have?
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18. How was the visual cliff study conducted?
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19. All senses report to the thalamus except for one--which?
3-7
Smell
If the mom and child have different blood types - the mom's cells can attack the baby.
Endocrine system
20. Jean Piaget extensively used which research method to study children?
Jean Piaget
Consciousness
Prenatal development
Natural observation
21. What is the rating system to judge a baby's functionality when first born?
Stage 6
Abstinence
John Bowlby's Attachment Theory
Virginia Apgar - or Apgar Rating
22. What are the two parts responsible for bending light and focusing it in the back of the eye?
Condom
Obstetrician-gynecologist
Cornea and lens
Perception
23. What is the name of the largest commissure?
Intrinsic reinforcer
Emotional neglect
Bell would ring - then feed the dogs - Dogs would salivate when given food - Over time dogs began to salivate simply at ring of bell
Corpus callosum
24. What is the main difference between classical and operant conditioning?
Ageism
Classical conditioning works more to explain reflexive or unconscious reactions - Operant conditioning works to explain elective actions and reactions
Crystallized intelligence
Create and release chemicals into the blood
25. Something used to make a behavior less likely to occur - can be positive or negative
Avoid punishment
Punishment
90%
Projection
26. Believing women followed a different progression than men - she called the moral progression of the woman what?
Emergency contraception
Morality of Care
Elaboration
Class inclusion
27. What is the term for the death of a child under one year - for no apparent reason?
Sudden Infant Death Syndrome
The skull - dura mater membrane - arachnoid layer - and pia mater.
Family therapy
Cross Sectional Study
28. When do the two fontanels harden?
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29. A higher number of the correlation coefficient closer to the number one shows a:
Self-actualization
Strong correlation
Dependent variable
Three percent
30. The study of the aging process
More Knowledgeable Other (MKO)
Sexual identity
Gerontology
Socialization
31. Teaches that when a certain action is performed - there are consequences--reinforces good behavior with extrinsic/intrinsic reinforcers
Operant conditioning
Hypothalamus
Gender
Personality
32. What do endocrine glands do?
Preschooler
Create and release chemicals into the blood
Rubella
Pia mater
33. What do children in early language development not understand?
Figurative language
Intrinsic reinforcer
Androgynous
Women - men
34. Final stage in the Kubler-Ross's Stages of Dying: 'I'm ready'
Acceptance
99%
Fetal Alcohol Syndrome
Create and release chemicals into the blood
35. Stage in which you see the right action as what satisfies your personal needs; a person becomes aware of two different viewpoints
Stage 2
Psychiatrist
Daydreaming
Structuralism
36. What are the two different classifications of intelligence?
Fluid intelligence and crystal intelligence
Perception
A will
Cross Sectional Study
37. Who argued that if psychology was a true science - then psychologists should only study what they could see and measure (behaviorist theory)?
Operant conditioning
Cephalocaudal and Proximodistal
Drugs - diseases (like HIV - rubella) - and pollutants (mercury - radiation - etc)
John Watson
38. What coordinates all movements and muscles?
9-15
Cerebellum
Object permanence
Encoding the information - represnting the information - and retrieving information from memory.
39. Those who are mentally retarded are least likely to also have WHAT condition?
Old-old
B.F. Skinner
Cerebral palsy
The penis doesn't grow and breasts may develop.
40. What is the main symptom of hyperactivity?
Papillae
Short attention span
Retina
Base of the skull; size of a pea
41. What is the term for identical twins?
Phonemes
Monozygotic twins
Opens and closes to let the correct amount of light in
Ethics
42. What 4 main problems do fetal alcohol syndrome cause?
Visual cliff
Qualitative
Slowed growth - body/face malfunctions - nervous system disorders - mental retardation.
Frontal lobe
43. What is the scientific name for the sense of smell?
Excitement - plateau - orgasm - and resolution phases
Injections
3
Olfactory sense
44. Who was the psychoanalyst who documented stages of emotional growth in regards to babies?
Breast-feeding
Positive reinforcer
Erik Erikson
5
45. Who created functionalism?
Pupil
Alzheimer's Disease
William James
Valid
46. How many different theories of language development are there?
Babbling
Cognitive
Three
Bound morpheme
47. What are: the principles and standards of behavior - including morals; right/wrong and having one's actions correlate with their beliefs
Ethics
Temporal lobe
Stimulus generalization
Placebo effect
48. What determines physical traits and is inherited from one or both parents?
Cognitive theorist
Gene
Opens and closes to let the correct amount of light in
Limbic system
49. Sigmund Freud's analysis of human personality and subconscious drives features three main components including:
Id - Ego - Super Ego
Gender role stereotypes
Autoerotic behavior
Wear-and-Tear Theory
50. What is: the theory to investigate the elements or 'structures' of the mind; classify structures and focus on conscious thought
Negative Correlation
Adrenal glands
Structuralism
Strong correlation