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DSST Lifespan Developmental Psychology
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1. One's wishes for the distribution of one's property and possessions after death
Endocrine system
Carl Rogers
A will
Selective attention
2. What is a fertilized ovum or egg?
Conservation
Negative reinforcer
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
Zygote
3. What is: the debate between whether a child is born a bad seed--with whatever disposition/tastes/personality they were meant to have; or that a child is born good - with their upbringing affecting their later personality and actions.
Weak correlation
Monocular cues
Nature vs. nurture
Self-report data
4. What percentage of children are affected by hyperactivity?
Half (23)
Three percent
Sterilization
Elaboration
5. A reinforcer that comes from within the individual--something emotional.
Median
Increase
Intrinsic reinforcer
Ego
6. What is the characteristic that: you may be more interested in a person - rather than what she is saying?
Selective
Stage 6
Qualitative
Left hand - left eye - and simple comprehension
7. What is: located in the limbic system - with primary function to store memories?
Thalamus
The right hand - right eye - and speech
Hippocampus
Freud
8. What is: the theory centered on studying how the mind is involved in knowing - learning - remembering - thinking; study how the mind relates to behavior
Displacement
Androgynous
Cognitive
Kibbutz
9. Imitation of a past-observed behavior
Allow the skull's plates of bone to shift or flex - making childbirth easier.
Deferred imitation
Egocentrism
Super Ego
10. Who did the experiment with baby monkeys about affection and love?
Cesarean birth
12+
Harry Harlow
The cloth monkey
11. What is: the study of substances which are harmful to prenatal development?
Teratology
Cognitive
Virginia Apgar - or Apgar Rating
Subjects may be dishonest w/ their answers
12. What is: your feelings and reactions
Semantics
Emotional health
They were not scientifically performed
Slowed growth - body/face malfunctions - nervous system disorders - mental retardation.
13. What is: the theory focused on 'how' of behavior; minds are a continuous flow of information about experiences - and role is to study the mind/behavior as they adapt to the environment
Conservation
Cooing
Functionalism
Ageism
14. Which thought process is a creative process?
Divergent thinking
Alzheimer's Disease
Cross-modal perception
Bell would ring - then feed the dogs - Dogs would salivate when given food - Over time dogs began to salivate simply at ring of bell
15. What is: generalizations about each gender - such as that men are aggressive and logical - and women are nurturing and emotional
Psychoanalytic theory
Gender role stereotypes
Occipital - temporal - frontal - and parietal.
Bell would ring - then feed the dogs - Dogs would salivate when given food - Over time dogs began to salivate simply at ring of bell
16. What is: the ear's interpretation of a sound's frequency
Cross-modal perception
Genetic Mutation
Pitch
Stage
17. What is: any pill designed to prevent pregnancy?
Infant
Oral contraceptives
Put babies on their backs to sleep - and not have anything extra (toys - pillows etc) in the bed or crib.
Abstinence
18. What is: the representation in the mind of a set of perceptions - ideas - and actions - which go together
Esteem needs
The more accurate the result
Slowed growth - body/face malfunctions - nervous system disorders - mental retardation.
Schema
19. What is: a progesterone shot given every three months?
Lens
William James
Depo-Provera
Psychological Tests
20. What is: the type of thought that has to do with factual information--trivia - vocabulary - science - history?
Crystallized intelligence
Contextual
Corpus callosum
Breast-feeding
21. 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
Wilhelm Wundt
Autoerotic behavior
Holophrase syntax
Preoperational stage (ages 3-6)
22. Why does a gamete have a half set of chromosomes?
Have more bland personalities and often difficult for them to create and maintain intimate relationships as they have a lack of emotional depth
Excitement - plateau - orgasm - and resolution phases
The Montessori Method
You need two - one from each parent - to conceive.
23. What is: attraction to the same sex?
Quantitative
Homosexual
Functionalism
Strong correlation
24. When does language development begin?
Social development or social cognition
Six months
Cochlea
Convergent thinking
25. Piaget believed that the individual actively constructs knowledge about the world--what is the term for this?
Cognitive theorist
Median
Contraception
Bias
26. Age at which most children will identify specific 'best-friends'
Content validity
Positive reinforcer
School-age Child
10
27. What controls breathing and heart rate?
Developmental norm
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
Bound morpheme
Pons
28. What is: the difference made to one's mind by the process of assimilation?
Accommodation
Content validity
Extrinsic reinforcer
Avoid punishment
29. Does a gamete (reproductive) cell have full or half set of chromosomes?
Vygotsky
Content validity
Half (23)
Selera
30. A child that bounces back from a difficult situation
Humanistic
Women - men
Resilient child
Stage 3
31. Who believed that children's thinking doesn't develop smoothly - but instead certain points where it 'takes off' and transitions into new areas?
Endocrine system
Adrenal glands
Jean Piaget
12+
32. What most-extreme fate does syphillis often cause in infants?
Reinforcer
Increase
Miscarriages or stillbirths
5 & 6
33. Read pages 22-25 for charts: Piaget's Stages of Development and Freud's Psychosexual Stages
Contextual
Fetal death
Constant
...
34. What is: the part of the ear inside the cochlea; contains sensors that change energy into impulses to be decoded by the brain?
Bias
The posterior (back) fontanel: within two months of birth. The anterior (front) fontanel: by the child's 2nd birthday.
Three percent
Organ of corti
35. When can a person's short term memory become incapacitated?
Bias
As they age
Cognitive theorist
Midwife
36. Observing someone's behavior and basing our own behavior on it
Modeling
Middle childhood
Because at birth cells aren't well connected (lacking in myelin - or nerve insulation)
Homophobia
37. List the levels (in order) of Kohlberg's Theory of Moral Development
Stage
Preconventional - conventional - postconventional
Gradually through shaping
Morality of Care
38. 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.
Diaphragm
Sound waves
Cones
Egocentrism
39. When a researcher observes and studies subjects w/o interacting or interfering w/ them
Psychoanalytic theory
Vygotsky
Naturalistic observation
1 & 2
40. What purpose do fontanels have?
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41. What are the three different types of teratogens?
Mostly developed by the time of birth
Bisexual
Drugs - diseases (like HIV - rubella) - and pollutants (mercury - radiation - etc)
Longitudinal Study
42. Environment in which two (or more) children sit side by side - or near each other - and play without interacting with the other child or trying to influence them in any way. Most children engage in this type of enviornment.
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
Conservation
Contraception
Parallel play
43. What are the three parts of memory?
John Bowlby's Attachment Theory
Encoding the information - represnting the information - and retrieving information from memory.
Parietal lobe
Modeling
44. What is: when adolescents truly believe themselves to be the center of the universe to those around them?
Naturalistic observation
Adolescent Egocentrism
Monocular cues
Dyslexia
45. A medical doctor with a degree who specializes in psychotherapy - who can prescribe drugs
Allow the skull's plates of bone to shift or flex - making childbirth easier.
Retina
Psychiatrist
Figurative language
46. Believing women followed a different progression than men - she called the moral progression of the woman what?
Habituation
Pupil
Morality of Care
Convergent thinking
47. Parenting styles: 'because I say so'--more prevalent in lower-class families
Frontal lobe
Retina
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
Authoritarian
48. When do the two fontanels harden?
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49. A type of research done inside of a lab - selected to monitor specific biological changes in individuals by using expensive and sophisticated machinery
Depth perception
Laboratory observation
Cones
Injections
50. What do physicians recommend to prevent SIDS?
Cross Sectional Study
Selective attention
Dialectical perspective
Put babies on their backs to sleep - and not have anything extra (toys - pillows etc) in the bed or crib.
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