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DSST Lifespan Developmental Psychology

Subjects : dsst, psychology
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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. What is the name for depth perception cues made with one eye?






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






3. Used to show links between people - events - actions - behaviors - etc. while not determining the caus - rather is linked to statistics






4. How do you fix the problem of mother's cells attacking the baby's?






5. What is: method of contraception by having no direct contact with partner's genitals?






6. What disorder causes a person to have difficulty concentration - be easily distracted - or constantly in motion?






7. What is the chance of having a boy or girl - according to Mendel's experiments in genetics?






8. What is: when adolescents truly believe themselves to be the center of the universe to those around them?






9. Theory by Bandura; the interaction of a person's personality - the environment - and the behavior.






10. What is a sometimes-fatal disease occuring from the excessive use of tampons - or leaving a diaphragm in - for longer than prescribed time?






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






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






13. What is the chance of a baby having PKU?






14. The best way to teach children values is?






15. Children learn and form their conscience and thoughts of what is acceptable behavior from what?






16. Usually has a doctoral degree in psychology plus an internship; cannot prescribe medicine.






17. What is the main difference between classical and operant conditioning?






18. Does a gamete (reproductive) cell have full or half set of chromosomes?






19. Deaf children will often be more proficient at communicating through _______ than do hearing infants - often being able to sign at ten months old






20. What is: expression of your maleness or femaleness on a daily basis?






21. What is: a progesterone shot given every three months?






22. Defense mechanism: feelings are redirected to someone else






23. Which stage of development is: Industry vs. Inferiority? (working with others)






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






25. In children babbling begins around age _____ - while in deaf infants babbling usually begins around several months later






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






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






28. A correlation coefficient of zero






29. What is: growth from the center (spine) outward - where vital organs form before the extremities?






30. A higher number of the correlation coefficient closer to the number one shows a:






31. What is: relating new information to something familiar






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






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






34. The repetition of certain syllables






35. What is the term for identical twins?






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






37. How is IQ calculated?






38. What types of drugs can hurt a developing fetus if taken by the mother?






39. Experiment when none of the doctors - researchers - and participants know who is getting the real drug






40. How much is hearing developed in neonates?






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






42. What are the four stages of sexual response?






43. How many different theories of language development are there?






44. What is the main relay station for incoming sensory signals to the cerebral cortex - and outgoing motor signals from it?






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






46. A system which uses operant conditioning to make less probable actions more likely to occur by using more probable actions as reinforcers






47. What is: the process of working something out in your head; shows the difference between young children (act and try things out) and older (can do things in their heads)






48. What are the two parts responsible for bending light and focusing it in the back of the eye?






49. Which lobe is related to hearing?






50. Stage in which a person abides by the law because they think that law is a higher order; laws cannot be broken under any circumstance; social-order-maintaining orientation