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DSST Lifespan Developmental Psychology

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1. Which protective brain layer is the strongest and thickest?






2. John Bowlby felt that attachment held evolutionary purpose. Explain






3. What is: attraction to the opposite sex?






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






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






6. We smell when airborne molecules of an odor reach tiny receptor cells in the top of the nasal cavity; what is the name of this receptor area?






7. What syndrome is characterized by small stature - poor coordination - hyperactive - learning disabilities - mental retardation - or large head?






8. What is: growth from the head downward (head develops before rest of the body)?






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






10. What is: sheath of thin latex designed to catch sperm upon ejaculation?






11. What is: areas of the body which - when touched - lead to sexual arousal?






12. What is the main symptom of hyperactivity?






13. Stage in which whether you will be punished or not determines what is moral or not - also called the punishment and obiedience phase






14. Failure to thrive is caused by:






15. What attention disorders also interfere with the learning process?






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






17. What is: the study of substances which are harmful to prenatal development?






18. Method that teaches children to realized their full potential.






19. What is: focusing attention on a small amount of information?






20. What is: term used to describe a person's belief that they can perform a task successfully?






21. What are the 8 psychological approaches?






22. What are the two directions of growth in the embryo?






23. What are the three parts of memory?






24. First development of language; pre-speech






25. When can a person's short term memory become incapacitated?






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






27. 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






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






29. Means that the participants must know the content of the experiment and be warned of any risk or harm






30. What is: the difference made to one's mind by the process of assimilation?






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






32. Who introduced the scientific method?






33. What is caused by one extra chromosome in the number 21?






34. What is: a child (especially preschool age) doesn't take into consideration other people's needs--their perceptions are limited to their own point of view






35. What thought process is supported by the example that: infants are given an object to hold - and then can recognize by sight the object.






36. Which lobe is related to body sensations?






37. Id - Ego - and Super Ego were all founded by who?






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






39. Believed each person had an idea of a 'perfect person' and tried to work towards being like that person as much as possible - believing that people needed to become 'fully functioning' individuals






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






41. What is: a permanent facility control done through surgical procedures?






42. What is: the part of the ear inside the cochlea; contains sensors that change energy into impulses to be decoded by the brain?






43. Read pages 22-25 for charts: Piaget's Stages of Development and Freud's Psychosexual Stages






44. Defense mechanism: you deny your feelings and come up with ways to justify your behavior






45. Level 1 of Kohlberg's Theory of Moral Development






46. The average of a data set






47. A type of conditioning in which a person associates an action with a consequence






48. Who proposed fluid/crystallized intelligence?






49. What is: a person's attraction to other people?






50. What is: hatred and fear of homosexuals?