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DSST Lifespan Developmental Psychology

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. What is: the amount of pressure produced by a sound wave - measured in decibels?






2. Biological theories of aging: as our bodies age - our immune systems become less effective at fighting disease - stress - etc.






3. When one variable increase - another variable increases. We call this a what?






4. What is the characteristic that: you may be more interested in a person - rather than what she is saying?






5. Stages of friendship: Momentary playmates






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






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






8. The variable in which the researcher has direct control over






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






10. Whatmakes a person able to see objects are they are - in 3 dimensions?






11. Which lobe is related to hearing?






12. What is: the most developed - and largest (80%) - part of the brain?






13. Self-aware - recognized - defined






14. What are: the harmful substances to a developing fetus?






15. What regulates internal temperature - eating - sleeping - drinking - emotions - and sexual activity?






16. Stage in which a person is concerned w/ how their action might affect society; the social contract orientation






17. A morpheme that can be a word on its own






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






19. Experiment where researchers made a baby afraid of rats through classical conditioning






20. What do children in early language development not understand?






21. What do physicians recommend to prevent SIDS?






22. What are the 8 psychological approaches?






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






24. Parenting styles: makes few demands - hardly ever punishes






25. What is: when a person or animal responds to a neutral stimulus with a meaningful one






26. Child's realization their sex will stay the same






27. Which receptor is used for color vision?






28. If a mother catches rubella in first trimester - what is the chance that the fetus is affected?






29. What 4 main problems do fetal alcohol syndrome cause?






30. Believing women followed a different progression than men - she called the moral progression of the woman what?






31. The negative effects of sensory deprivation (not as much attention) are more likely to _______ w/ the length of the stage.






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






33. Time at which most children begin to speak actual words






34. What part of the central nervous system controls all necessary functions of the body?






35. Age at which most children will identify specific 'best-friends'






36. What is the ring of muscles that makes up the colored part of the eye?






37. Why are IQ scores only accurate for short periods of time?






38. What is the variable that the experiment is trying to test?






39. Defense mechanism: a type of displacement - a redirection of the feeling into a socially productive activity






40. What percentage of children are affected by hyperactivity?






41. Who did the experiment with baby monkeys about affection and love?






42. What is the term for the death of a child under one year - for no apparent reason?






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






44. What is another term for the system of hearing?






45. What are the five areas of Apgar Rating - with scores of 0-2 in each?






46. How is IQ calculated?






47. Imitation of a past-observed behavior






48. A type of research done inside of a lab - selected to monitor specific biological changes in individuals by using expensive and sophisticated machinery






49. What is: your thoughts about what gives life purpose--the meaning of life - religion






50. Where a group of people live together and the children of all the people are raised by one or two people






Can you answer 50 questions in 15 minutes?



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