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DSST Lifespan Developmental Psychology

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1. Individual sounds w/ in a word
Excitement - plateau - orgasm - and resolution phases
Gender
Phonemes
Kibbutz

2. What is the factor that always stays the same?
Infant
Behaviorism
Smell
Constant

3. What is the very critical period of the first 3 months in the womb?
Ageism
Extrinsic reinforcer
Obstetrician-gynecologist
Prenatal development

4. Extension of 'actions speak louder than words' in behavior; follow others' examples despite their words.
Sigmund Freud
Cut in half
Social learning theory
Gentle birth

5. Defense mechanism: transferring your thoughts and feelings onto others
The more accurate the result
Auditory System
Syphillis and rubella
Projection

6. Which thought process is a creative process?
All drugs - including over the counter - aspirin - coffee
Gender role stereotypes
Divergent thinking
Long labors or birth complications

7. What is: psychological definition for having more equal personality characteristics between male&female?
Emergency contraception
Ageism
Adolescent Egocentrism
Androgynous

8. What is the study done to show that infants have depth perception?
Family therapy
Visual cliff
3 & 4
Gender roles

9. What is the name for the awareness of external and internal events?
Sweet - bitter - salty - sour
Sexual identity
Consciousness
Recall

10. What is: an M.D. who provides comprehensive care for people of all ages?
Middle ear
Cerebral anoxia
Longitudinal fissure
Family practitioner

11. What is: the process by which a society identifies its expectations?
Positive reinforcer
Old Age
Cut in half
Socialization

12. What are the 8 psychological approaches?
Toxic shock syndrome
No correlation
Zone of Proximal Development
Biological; Behavioral; Cognitive; Humanistic; Psychoanalytical; Structuralism; Functionalism; Nature vs. Nurture

13. What is the thought process that considers an idea or belief (thesis) and acknowledges the idea's opposite (antithesis)?
Family therapy
Noise
Dialectical perspective
Anger (Emotion)

14. After how many cigarettes will the fetus definitely have problems--with a 50% greater risk of childhood cancer?
3-7
Stage 6
Five
Retina

15. What is the chance of having a boy or girl - according to Mendel's experiments in genetics?
50%
9-15
Old Age
Class inclusion

16. Who created functionalism?
Drugs - diseases (like HIV - rubella) - and pollutants (mercury - radiation - etc)
Vygotsky
William James
Loudness

17. How many different theories of language development are there?
Multiple caretakers
Three
Stage 6
Mean

18. A reinforcer that is physical (tangible) or from the environment - like payment for work - or a prize
The Premack Principle
Gestures
Extrinsic reinforcer
Infants were placed on a solid - opaque surface - and the mothers were placed at the end of the table - where the opaque ended and glass begun. The infants didn't want to cross the glass because they could see the distance between themselves and the

19. First stage in the Kubler-Ross's Stages of Dying: 'This could never happen to me. This must be a mistake'
Cesarean birth
Up to 6 months of observation by doctors
Denial (Shock)
Accommodation

20. How much is hearing developed in neonates?
Automatic
Infants were placed on a solid - opaque surface - and the mothers were placed at the end of the table - where the opaque ended and glass begun. The infants didn't want to cross the glass because they could see the distance between themselves and the
Mostly developed by the time of birth
Rite of Passage

21. What are the three parts of memory?
Autonomic Nervous System
Encoding the information - represnting the information - and retrieving information from memory.
B.F. Skinner
Figurative language

22. What is the rating system to judge a baby's functionality when first born?
Androgynous
Virginia Apgar - or Apgar Rating
Middle-old
Set high standards - assist along the way

23. What are the two directions of growth in the embryo?
Cephalocaudal and Proximodistal
Cesarean birth
Cerebrospinal fluid
Invincibility fable

24. What section of the nervous system is responsible for the 'fight or flight' response?
Up to 6 months of observation by doctors
Lens
Autonomic Nervous System
Hollow phrases

25. What are the different types of caregivers for pregnancy?
The brain/the cerebral cortex
Endocrine system
Obstetrician-gynecologist - family practitioner - or midwife
Kubler-Ross's Stages of Dying

26. What is: a person's attraction to other people?
Sexual orientation
Gender
Erogenous zones
The brain

27. List the levels (in order) of Kohlberg's Theory of Moral Development
Preconventional - conventional - postconventional
Mean
9-15
Structuralism

28. Jean Piaget extensively used which research method to study children?
Corpus callosum
Natural observation
Kohlberg
Full (46)

29. What is: the theory based on biology; belief that behavior and personality are linked to genetics
Biological
Diaphragm
As soon as the bell was rung
The brain stem

30. If a mother catches rubella in first trimester - what is the chance that the fetus is affected?
Pituitary gland
90%
Gender conservation
Crystallized intelligence

31. A type of conditioning in which a person associates an action with a consequence
Accommodation
Operant Conditioning
Vygotsky
Mentally retarded

32. What percentage of children are affected by hyperactivity?
Three percent
Binocular cues
Teratogens
Physical needs

33. When one variable increase - another variable increases. We call this a what?
Family therapy
Positive Correlation
Conceive at younger ages
Harry Harlow

34. Observing someone's behavior and basing our own behavior on it
Ferdinand Lamaze
The meanlinkk of utterance (how long their sentences are)
Modeling
Sublimation

35. What are areas in a baby's skull where cartilage hasn't yet hardened into bone?
Fontanels
Slowed growth - body/face malfunctions - nervous system disorders - mental retardation.
Freud
Parietal lobe

36. Who introduced the scientific method?
Francis Bacon--16th century
Class inclusion
Behavioral
Semantics

37. What is the variable that the experiment is trying to test?
Dependent variable
Constant
23 pairs
Condom

38. Defense mechanism: feelings are redirected to someone else
Sigmund Freud
Gentle birth
Cornea and lens
Displacement

39. Age at which children begin to share their toys and interact w/ one another - associative play
Reinforcer
3
Loudness
Preoperational stage (ages 3-6)

40. Final stage in the Kubler-Ross's Stages of Dying: 'I'm ready'
Subject
Acceptance
Carl Rogers
Weak correlation

41. What is: the part of the ear inside the cochlea; contains sensors that change energy into impulses to be decoded by the brain?
Permissive
Fetal alcohol syndrome
Gestalt psychology
Organ of corti

42. When people of different ages are studied at one particular time
Midwife
Cross Sectional Study
Cerebral cortex
Olfactory sense

43. Where is the pituitary gland located - and how big is it?
Slowed growth - body/face malfunctions - nervous system disorders - mental retardation.
Sympathetic - parasympathetic - and enteric
Base of the skull; size of a pea
Long labors or birth complications

44. When people are followed and studied over a long period of time and checked up on at certain points
Amplitude
Psychoanalytical
Longitudinal Study
Have more bland personalities and often difficult for them to create and maintain intimate relationships as they have a lack of emotional depth

45. When do the two fontanels harden?

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46. What is the clear membrane in front of the eye that protects it?
Cones
Cornea
Base of the skull; size of a pea
Have more bland personalities and often difficult for them to create and maintain intimate relationships as they have a lack of emotional depth

47. Infants develop a secure attachment when parents pay attention to and respond to a child's needs. What theory includes this statement?
Correlational research
Psychoanalytic theory
Self-actualization
Physical needs

48. The name most associated with operant conditioning is who?
B.F. Skinner
Family situation - the world around you - lifespan - and maturity.
Bisexual
Biological; Behavioral; Cognitive; Humanistic; Psychoanalytical; Structuralism; Functionalism; Nature vs. Nurture

49. Children that are raised on the Kibbutz will often:
Conceive at younger ages
Have more bland personalities and often difficult for them to create and maintain intimate relationships as they have a lack of emotional depth
Teratogens
Self-report data

50. Which lobe is related to vision?
Independent variable
12+
Autoimmune Theory
Occipital lobe