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DSST Lifespan Developmental Psychology
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Where is the pituitary gland located - and how big is it?
As soon as the bell was rung
Women - men
Base of the skull; size of a pea
Independent variable
2. Stereotypes in genders; boys play with trucks and girls wear makeup - etc.
Explicit role instruction
10
Deferred imitation
Classical conditioning
3. The study of the aging process
Preconventional Morality
Six or seven months
Drugs - diseases (like HIV - rubella) - and pollutants (mercury - radiation - etc)
Gerontology
4. What is the term for low IQ and mental age of about 4 years old?
Suppression
Oral contraceptives
Mentally retarded
Base of the skull; size of a pea
5. Where a group of people live together and the children of all the people are raised by one or two people
Mentally retarded
Subject
Fetal death
Kibbutz
6. What is: T-shaped device implanted in uterus by a physician for five to ten years at a time?
Accommodation
Naturalistic observation
IUD
Semantics
7. What is the middle number in a set of data called?
Dependent variable
Median
John Bowlby's Attachment Theory
Phenylketonuria (PKU)
8. Biological theories of aging: like everything else in the world - the human body wears out
Long labors or birth complications
Stage 5
Correlation coefficient
Wear-and-Tear Theory
9. Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs consists of which steps?
Social development or social cognition
50%
Self-actualization - Esteem needs - Belonging and love - Safety - Physical needs
Bargaining
10. What houses memories and controls our responses to different sensory signals?
Adolescent Egocentrism
Natural observation
The cerebrum
Bandura
11. What is: the difference made to one's mind by the process of assimilation?
Accommodation
The brain/the cerebral cortex
The right hand - right eye - and speech
As soon as the bell was rung
12. When someone sees an incomplete form - they fill in the pieces and perceive it as it would be that way. What Gestalt principle is this an example of?
Stimulus generalization
Self-efficacy
Closure
None!!
13. What is the enzyme deficiency that can cause mental retardation without treatment?
Acceptance
Phenylketonuria (PKU)
Outer ear
Sexually transmitted diseases
14. What is: the gland that controls release of hormones from the gonads?
Pituitary gland
Old-old
Hollow phrases
Kleinfelter Syndrome; male
15. Aside from learning disabilities - what physical problem do Kleinfelter people have?
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16. Imitation of a past-observed behavior
Placebo effect
Set high standards - assist along the way
Deferred imitation
Classical conditioning
17. A person who uses ______ has a stated position - but also acknowledges that it may change over time.
Alfred Binet
Dialectical perspective
Hippocampus
Depo-Provera
18. 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.
Nature vs. nurture
Fluid intelligence and crystal intelligence
Olfactory epithelium
Emotional neglect
19. In a study - the researchers have direct control over this variable
Behavioral
Independent variable
Gradually through shaping
Dura mater
20. A chronic condition that deteriorates the nerve fibers in the brain controlling memory - speech - and personality. Early symptoms including personality changes - lack of interest in activities - and change in sleep patterns.
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21. How much is hearing developed in neonates?
None!!
Cellular Theory
Mostly developed by the time of birth
Pavlov; classical conditioning
22. Does a somatic (body) cell have a full - or half - set of chromosomes?
Wilhelm Wundt
Obstetrician-gynecologist
Full (46)
Epinephrine and norepinephrine
23. Extension of 'actions speak louder than words' in behavior; follow others' examples despite their words.
Preoperational stage (ages 3-6)
Nature vs. nurture
Social learning theory
Kleinfelter Syndrome; male
24. Defense mechanism: feelings are redirected to someone else
Displacement
More Knowledgeable Other (MKO)
5
First trimester
25. A term used in research used to describe something measurable usually expressed as a number
Excitement - plateau - orgasm - and resolution phases
Cross-modal perception
Quantitative
Id
26. What kind of childbirth did Dr. Grantly Dick Read start teaching?
Natural prepared childbirth
Behavioral
Socialization
Pituitary gland
27. Which lobe is related to voluntary muscles and intelligence?
Frontal lobe
Sexual orientation
Adolescent
Vygotsky
28. Fourth step in Maslow's Hierarchy of needs in which you begin to think about you self-esteem and how you feel as a person
Esteem needs
Lewis Terman
Sterilization
Dura mater
29. When does language development begin?
Baby Albert
Id
Six months
Displacement
30. What is: a permanent facility control done through surgical procedures?
If the mom and child have different blood types - the mom's cells can attack the baby.
Sterilization
Conceive at younger ages
Intestate
31. Third stage in the Kubler-Ross's Stages of Dying: 'If you don't die I will do the following...'
Excitement - plateau - orgasm - and resolution phases
Perception
Bargaining
Humanistic Theorists
32. Which though process is follower thinking?
6
Convergent thinking
Not fully developed; but can distinguish color - track movement - and bright objects.
The meanlinkk of utterance (how long their sentences are)
33. How many different theories of language development are there?
Sterilization
Brain and spinal cord
Midwife
Three
34. What is: the most developed - and largest (80%) - part of the brain?
Cerebral cortex
Lewis Terman
Genes
Stage 3
35. What is the part of the ear that includes the pinna and external auditory canal?
Sexual orientation
Five
Cesarean birth
Outer ear
36. Disagreed w/ Kohlberg's Theory of Moral Development because his subjects were mainly male
Gilligan
Pia mater
Unoccupied behavior - onlooker - solitary independent (plays alone) - parallel play (plays around but not w/ others) - associative - cooperative play
The posterior (back) fontanel: within two months of birth. The anterior (front) fontanel: by the child's 2nd birthday.
37. What is the name of the largest commissure?
The posterior (back) fontanel: within two months of birth. The anterior (front) fontanel: by the child's 2nd birthday.
Emergency contraception
Corpus callosum
Permissive
38. What do children in early language development not understand?
Cornea and lens
Automatic
Figurative language
Correlation Research
39. Which lobe is related to vision?
Cooing
Nature vs. nurture
Occipital lobe
Heterosexual
40. What is: small device to block access to the uterus; left in place with spermicide for 6-8 hours - in order to kill any remaining sperm?
Nature vs. nurture
Diaphragm
Organ of corti
Self-actualization
41. Parenting styles: respects individually - but tries to instill social values
Pituitary gland
Free morpheme
Authoritative
Modeling
42. What is the name for depth perception cues made with both eyes?
Middle-old
Punishment
Old Age
Binocular cues
43. Defense mechanism: hiding the feelings and not acknowledging them
Suppression
Semantics
Safety
Cellular Theory
44. True or False: Kohlberg believed that you go through each step of moral development one @ a time and could not skip them.
Correlation coefficient
True
The Premack Principle
Retina
45. The scientific study of words and sentences
Structuralism
Cephalocaudal
Modeling
Semantics
46. Which stage of development is: Ego Integrity vs. Despair? (what they have done with their life)
Cornea and lens
Parietal lobe
Old Age
Six or seven months
47. What glands affect the mood - energy level - and stress?
Adrenal glands
Prenatal development
Placebo effect
Constant
48. What is the variable that the experimenter controls?
Independent variable
Fontanels
5 & 6
Daydreaming
49. Gifted children often hide gifts to ______.
Psychological maltreatment
Miscarriages or stillbirths
Semantics
Fit in
50. Once the disease strikes - an individual w/ Alzheimer's disease usually has their life expectancy is:
Adrenal glands
Epinephrine and norepinephrine
Cut in half
Cerebral cortex