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DSST Lifespan Developmental Psychology

Subjects : dsst, psychology
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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. What is the term for lack of responsiveness to other people?






2. Children learn and form their conscience and thoughts of what is acceptable behavior from what?






3. Disagreed w/ Kohlberg's Theory of Moral Development because his subjects were mainly male






4. What is: attraction to both sexes?






5. Children that are raised on the Kibbutz are used to study the effects of what?






6. What is the chance of having a boy or girl - according to Mendel's experiments in genetics?






7. What is the name for the bundles of axons - used to communicate between the two halves of brain?






8. What is: long lasting contraceptive where six capsules are injected in a woman's arm?






9. What is: the tone color or perceptual quality of a sound?






10. What is: not being involved in a sexual relationship?






11. The repetition of certain syllables






12. Putting disabled students w/ normal students






13. First step in Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs such as food water and shelter






14. Which of these diseases can cause miscarriage - stillbirth - heart defects - deafness - and other problems?






15. Who developed the theory of social development?






16. What is the very critical period of the first 3 months in the womb?






17. A link between a stimulus and a response in which a person or animal associates or substitutes a neutral stimulus with the actual stimulus






18. Rang the bell each time he fed the dog; eventually how early did the dogs start salivating?






19. Infants develop a secure attachment when parents pay attention to and respond to a child's needs. What theory includes this statement?






20. What is: irrelevant stimuli that compete for our attention (like traffic)






21. Where are genes carried?






22. What is the ability to identify correctly something encountered before?






23. What is: a statistical measure of typical scores for categories of information?






24. What is: the type of thought that has to do with factual information--trivia - vocabulary - science - history?






25. What is the medical term for birth of a dead baby?






26. What are: general term for the reproductive organs in a male or female?






27. What syndrome occurs when someone two X and one Y chromosome...and what gender does this make?






28. 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






29. How was the visual cliff study conducted?

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30. Gifted children often hide gifts to ______.






31. What purpose do fontanels have?

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32. What are: chemicals designed to kill sperm?






33. What controls breathing and heart rate?






34. Age at with children start feeling a fear of the dark - which can be strong and appear suddenly






35. Jean Piaget extensively used which research method to study children?






36. A number between +1 and -1 that measures the strength between two variables






37. What is: the way the brain organizes and gives meaning to information provided by the senses?






38. What is a disease also called German measles?






39. Children that are raised on the Kibbutz will often:






40. Extension of 'actions speak louder than words' in behavior; follow others' examples despite their words.






41. What is the term for oxygen deficiency to the brain?






42. Which thought process is a creative process?






43. Who argued that if psychology was a true science - then psychologists should only study what they could see and measure (behaviorist theory)?






44. 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






45. What is the characteristic that: you fill in areas that we do not have complete information about?






46. A method of modifying behavior - by ignoring the behavior so you don't have the response






47. Why does a gamete have a half set of chromosomes?






48. Why did studies used by Piaget and Freud lead to wrong conclusions?






49. Imitation of a past-observed behavior






50. Once the disease strikes - an individual w/ Alzheimer's disease usually has their life expectancy is: