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DSST Lifespan Developmental Psychology
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Rang the bell each time he fed the dog; eventually how early did the dogs start salivating?
Endocrine system
More Knowledgeable Other (MKO)
Genetic Mutation
As soon as the bell was rung
2. Stages of friendship: two way - fair weathered
6-12
Echolalia
Longitudinal Study
Olfactory epithelium
3. What is: any pill designed to prevent pregnancy?
Projection
Longitudinal Study
Oral contraceptives
If the mom and child have different blood types - the mom's cells can attack the baby.
4. What is: not being involved in a sexual relationship?
Celibacy
Clinical psychologist
Gonads
Encoding the information - represnting the information - and retrieving information from memory.
5. According to both Kohlberg and Piaget - the most immature reason to do something is to:
Negative reinforcer
Holophrase syntax
Infant
Avoid punishment
6. Which thought process is a creative process?
Noise
Heterosexual
Iris
Divergent thinking
7. Rogers and Maslow are both:
Teratology
It measures a child against their peers - in that moment
Humanistic Theorists
Injections
8. Deaf children will often be more proficient at communicating through _______ than do hearing infants - often being able to sign at ten months old
If the mom and child have different blood types - the mom's cells can attack the baby.
Morality of Care
First trimester
Gestures
9. Those who are mentally retarded are least likely to also have WHAT condition?
Occipital lobe
Habituation
Cerebral palsy
3-7
10. Defense mechanism: transferring your thoughts and feelings onto others
Projection
Object permanence
Reinforcer
Fluid intelligence and crystal intelligence
11. What is: focusing attention on a small amount of information?
Elaboration
Quantitative
Selective attention
Schema
12. What is the part of the ear that includes the eardrum - anvil - and stirrup?
6
Set high standards - assist along the way
Phonemes
Middle ear
13. Observing someone's behavior and basing our own behavior on it
Modeling
Conception
Intestate
Cognitive improvement
14. Who founded the Hierarchy of Needs theory?
Id - Ego - Super Ego
Timbre
On chromosomes
Maslow
15. A test that gives information about a participant including standardized tests such as aptitude - interest - and personality tests
Occipital lobe
Dependent variable
Psychological Tests
Informed consent
16. An environment where children live and attend school
Cross Sectional Study
Teratology
Preoperational stage (ages 3-6)
Peer group
17. Biological theories of aging: as our bodies age - our immune systems become less effective at fighting disease - stress - etc.
Teratology
Behaviorism
Equilibrium
Autoimmune Theory
18. What is: a permanent facility control done through surgical procedures?
Biological; Behavioral; Cognitive; Humanistic; Psychoanalytical; Structuralism; Functionalism; Nature vs. Nurture
Multiple caretakers
Sterilization
Stage 1
19. Self-esteem begins forming in:
Middle childhood
Pons
Schema
Binocular cues
20. Stereotypes in genders; boys play with trucks and girls wear makeup - etc.
Hour of love
Cornea and lens
Explicit role instruction
Watching their parents
21. First element to Vygotsky's theory: what does social interaction facilitate?
Object permanence
Egocentrism
Cognitive improvement
Recognition
22. Jean Piaget extensively used which research method to study children?
Multiple caretakers
Natural observation
Timbre
Oral contraceptives
23. When do the two fontanels harden?
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24. What is the characteristic that: you fill in areas that we do not have complete information about?
Stimulus generalization
Creative
Functionalism
Spermicides
25. What is: T-shaped device implanted in uterus by a physician for five to ten years at a time?
Figurative language
Family situation - the world around you - lifespan - and maturity.
IUD
Humanistic Theorists
26. What are areas in a baby's skull where cartilage hasn't yet hardened into bone?
The posterior (back) fontanel: within two months of birth. The anterior (front) fontanel: by the child's 2nd birthday.
Id - Ego - Super Ego
Olfactory sense
Fontanels
27. What is: the period of sexual maturation?
Avoid punishment
Puberty
Correlational research
90%
28. Self-aware - recognized - defined
None!!
Self-concept
Pavlov; classical conditioning
Maslow
29. Who argued that classical conditioning explains some behaviors - but operant conditioning plays a much larger role?
Three
No
Clinical psychologist
B.F. Skinner
30. Babies are rewarded with food/attention with they say 'mama' etc - so they continue to say those words and learn new ones; what idea does this theory follow?
Wilhelm Wundt
Family therapy
Operant conditioning
Psychological Tests
31. Stages of friendship: Momentary playmates
Occipital lobe
Auditory System
Explicit role instruction
3-7
32. What are: the harmful substances to a developing fetus?
Teratogens
Cross Sectional Study
Classification
Super Ego
33. A number between +1 and -1 that measures the strength between two variables
John Bowlby's Attachment Theory
Morphemes
Correlation coefficient
Thalamus
34. A type of research done inside of a lab - selected to monitor specific biological changes in individuals by using expensive and sophisticated machinery
Depo-Provera
A census
Laboratory observation
Adolescent
35. What is the name for the two halves of the brain?
Up to 6 months of observation by doctors
Cerebrum
Nurture
Classical conditioning
36. What is the opening of the iris - which looks black?
Projection
Pupil
Teratogens
4-9
37. In a case study - a single individual called a _____ is intensely studied
Erik Erikson
Valid
Subject
Middle-age Adult
38. 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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39. What is: areas of the body which - when touched - lead to sexual arousal?
Set high standards - assist along the way
Self-concept
Erogenous zones
10
40. Not physical abuse but when the child feels rejected or feels failure
Young Adult
Weak correlation
Psychological maltreatment
Abstinence
41. Which part of the ANS is the arousing part of the system?
Bisexual
Sympathetic nervous system
Biological
Cross-modal perception
42. What is: the ear's interpretation of a sound's frequency
Endocrine system
Pitch
Qualitative
Stage 2
43. The process of unassociating the condition with the response
Correlational research
They were not scientifically performed
Psychometrics
Extinction
44. What is: the process by which a person takes material into their mind from the environment - which may mean changing sensory evidence to make it fit?
Amniocentesis
Set high standards - assist along the way
Assimilation
Class inclusion
45. When can a person's short term memory become incapacitated?
Gonads
As they age
Fluid intelligence and crystal intelligence
Mental health
46. 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.
Sexual identity
Homosexual
...
Egocentrism
47. Which stage of development is: Initiative vs. Guilt? (trying different roles)
90%
Nurture
Erogenous zones
Preschooler
48. If a mother catches rubella in first trimester - what is the chance that the fetus is affected?
5 & 6
The right hand - right eye - and speech
90%
Fetal alcohol syndrome
49. What section of the nervous system is responsible for the 'fight or flight' response?
Autonomic Nervous System
Pavlov; classical conditioning
Spiritual - emotional - mental - and social health
Longitudinal Study
50. In a child - can be expressed as 'nobody likes me'
Olfactory sense
Cognitive improvement
Preoperational stage (ages 3-6)
Childhood depression
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