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DSST Lifespan Developmental Psychology
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Failure to thrive is caused by:
Unoccupied behavior - onlooker - solitary independent (plays alone) - parallel play (plays around but not w/ others) - associative - cooperative play
Emotional neglect
Kohlberg
Convergent thinking
2. What is: when a child can't be conceived via the usual method?
Infertility
Behaviorism
Mental age/Chronological age - x 100
Middle ear
3. Stages of friendship: two way - fair weathered
Dependent variable
Cross-modal perception
Bound morpheme
6-12
4. Which part of the ANS is the calming part of the system?
Parasympathetic
Elaboration
Autism
Visual cliff
5. What purpose do fontanels have?
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6. What percent of children in kindergarten are immunized?
99%
Informed consent
Psychological maltreatment
Temporal lobe
7. What is: your thoughts - beliefs - attitudes - and values
Gerontology
Mental health
1 in 14 -000
Qualitative
8. Children that are raised on the Kibbutz are used to study the effects of what?
Multiple caretakers
Regression
Middle-age Adult
Amplitude
9. What is: the period of sexual maturation?
Quantitative
Puberty
Cones
Morality of Justice
10. The awareness of being a male or female
Stage
Gender identity
Sympathetic - parasympathetic - and enteric
The meanlinkk of utterance (how long their sentences are)
11. What is: the difference made to one's mind by the process of assimilation?
Accommodation
John Bowlby's Attachment Theory
Informed consent
Assimilation
12. Level 1 of Kohlberg's Theory of Moral Development includes which stages
1 & 2
Naturalistic observation
Encoding the information - represnting the information - and retrieving information from memory.
Regression
13. People who are working that experience discrimination because of their age - whether too young or too old are victims of what?
Emotional health
Fetal death
Ageism
Base of the skull; size of a pea
14. What are: the principles and standards of behavior - including morals; right/wrong and having one's actions correlate with their beliefs
Echolalia
Classical conditioning
Ethics
Consciousness
15. Who proposed fluid/crystallized intelligence?
Deferred imitation
Invincibility fable
Raymond Cattell
Mainstreaming
16. What do doctors agree is the best way to feed babies?
Quantitative
Breast-feeding
ADHD
Equilibrium
17. What are the factors that influence psychosocial health?
Family situation - the world around you - lifespan - and maturity.
Recall
Egocentric behavior
If the mom and child have different blood types - the mom's cells can attack the baby.
18. Fourth stage in the Kubler-Ross's Stages of Dying: 'There's nothing I can do about this'
Psychoanalytical
Kleinfelter Syndrome; male
Wilhelm Wundt
Preparatory Depression
19. Types of child play in chronological order:
Old Age
Experimental research
Extinction
Unoccupied behavior - onlooker - solitary independent (plays alone) - parallel play (plays around but not w/ others) - associative - cooperative play
20. The distortion of the results
Gender roles
Self-actualization
Natural observation
Bias
21. Experiment when none of the doctors - researchers - and participants know who is getting the real drug
Kibbutz
Subjects may be dishonest w/ their answers
Double blind
Mainstreaming
22. What is the ring of muscles that makes up the colored part of the eye?
Automatic
Visual cliff
Wilhelm Wundt
Iris
23. What is the name for depth perception cues made with both eyes?
Teratogens
Esteem needs
Abstinence
Binocular cues
24. Which protective brain layer is mostly blood vessels?
Occipital - temporal - frontal - and parietal.
Sudden Infant Death Syndrome
Pia mater
Lewis Terman
25. Gilligan believed that ________ conflicted between self and other - while ________ conflicted between self and justice
Wilhelm Wundt
Intestate
Five
Women - men
26. Believing women followed a different progression than men - she called the moral progression of the woman what?
Sampling
Morality of Care
Diaphragm
Multiple caretakers
27. What do physicians recommend to prevent SIDS?
Structuralism
9-15
Put babies on their backs to sleep - and not have anything extra (toys - pillows etc) in the bed or crib.
Slowed growth - body/face malfunctions - nervous system disorders - mental retardation.
28. What is: the ability to group objects together on the basis of common features?
Contextual
Classification
Recognition
William James
29. A set of cases of people randomly chosen from a large group to represent that large group
Natural observation
The brain
Sampling
Physical needs
30. When people of different ages are studied at one particular time
Zone of Proximal Development
Five
5 & 6
Cross Sectional Study
31. When one variable increases while another variable decreases. We call this a what?
Carl Rogers
Independent variable
Sexual identity
Negative Correlation
32. Imitation of a past-observed behavior
Explicit role instruction
Deferred imitation
Resilient child
Correlation Research
33. What is the part of the ear that includes the pinna and external auditory canal?
Occipital lobe
Outer ear
Negative reinforcer
Depo-Provera
34. What is: a statistical measure of typical scores for categories of information?
Experimental research
Family therapy
Developmental norm
Prenatal development
35. What is the most popular method for giving birth?
Permissive
Closure
Acceptance
Medicated delivery
36. First element to Vygotsky's theory: what does social interaction facilitate?
Gonads
Laboratory observation
Stage 2
Cognitive improvement
37. What is: the theory centered on studying how the mind is involved in knowing - learning - remembering - thinking; study how the mind relates to behavior
Cognitive
Cooing
The more accurate the result
Monozygotic twins
38. Does a somatic (body) cell have a full - or half - set of chromosomes?
Fetal alcohol syndrome
Full (46)
Bisexual
Prenatal development
39. How is IQ calculated?
Fluid intelligence
ADHD
Increase
Mental age/Chronological age - x 100
40. What is the characteristic that: you fill in areas that we do not have complete information about?
Creative
Infant
B.F. Skinner
Mental health
41. A term used to describe something similar in structure or organization
Qualitative
Psychometrics
The right hand - right eye - and speech
A census
42. The most direct measure of syntax in middle childhood is what?
The meanlinkk of utterance (how long their sentences are)
Super Ego
Lens
Accommodation
43. First stage in the Kubler-Ross's Stages of Dying: 'This could never happen to me. This must be a mistake'
Denial (Shock)
Preconventional Morality
Because at birth cells aren't well connected (lacking in myelin - or nerve insulation)
Conceive at younger ages
44. The name most associated with operant conditioning is who?
Alfred Binet
Modeling
Rods
B.F. Skinner
45. What is a sometimes-fatal disease occuring from the excessive use of tampons - or leaving a diaphragm in - for longer than prescribed time?
Social health
Excitement - plateau - orgasm - and resolution phases
Telegraphic speech
Toxic shock syndrome
46. What is: the type of thought that has to do with factual information--trivia - vocabulary - science - history?
Mendel
Proximodistal
Social aspect of language
Crystallized intelligence
47. States that infants need to form at least one strong attachment such as to a parent - in order to develop normally
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48. When a participant fills out a survey themselves about themselves
Self-report data
Smell
Stillbirth
Gender conservation
49. Recent research supports that children learn from listening to their parents talk to them in 'baby talk'; which aspect of language is this?
Mental health
Full (46)
Endocrine system
Social aspect of language
50. What is: a person's attraction to other people?
Correlational research
No correlation
Gender conservation
Sexual orientation