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DSST Lifespan Developmental Psychology
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1. What is the sense that gives information about balance and body movement? (if your body is moving - tilting - etc.)
Visual cliff
Because at birth cells aren't well connected (lacking in myelin - or nerve insulation)
Vestibular sense
Developmental norm
2. A medical doctor with a degree who specializes in psychotherapy - who can prescribe drugs
Morality of Care
Psychiatrist
Best friend
Cooing
3. Four steps of the scientific method include:
Occipital lobe
Psychometrics
Alzheimer's Disease
1) Gather info - 2) Generate hypothesis - 3) Test hypothesis - 4) Revise
4. What houses memories and controls our responses to different sensory signals?
Base of the skull; size of a pea
The cerebrum
Invincibility fable
Drugs - diseases (like HIV - rubella) - and pollutants (mercury - radiation - etc)
5. Parenting styles: respects individually - but tries to instill social values
Authoritative
B.F. Skinner
Emergency contraception
John Bowlby's Attachment Theory
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?
Olfactory epithelium
Gilligan
Not fully developed; but can distinguish color - track movement - and bright objects.
Wilhelm Wundt
7. What is: the process by which a society identifies its expectations?
Psychological Tests
Pupil
Cerebrum
Socialization
8. Piaget believed that the individual actively constructs knowledge about the world--what is the term for this?
9-15
Cognitive theorist
All drugs - including over the counter - aspirin - coffee
Cooing
9. Used to show links between people - events - actions - behaviors - etc. while not determining the caus - rather is linked to statistics
Smell
The Premack Principle
Correlation Research
10
10. Is there currently a cure for Alzheimer's disease?
Structuralism
The Montessori Method
No
Longitudinal Study
11. How is ADHD diagnosed?
Celibacy
RU-486
Sigmund Freud
Up to 6 months of observation by doctors
12. What is the scientific name for the sense of smell?
1 & 2
Reinforcer
Injections
Olfactory sense
13. What are the five areas of Apgar Rating - with scores of 0-2 in each?
Convergent thinking
Cross-modal perception
Appearance - pulse - grimace (reflex) - activity - and respiration
Thalamus
14. Why does a gamete have a half set of chromosomes?
Depo-Provera
You need two - one from each parent - to conceive.
Through actions - doing what you believe is correct
Middle childhood
15. How does the pupil work?
Opens and closes to let the correct amount of light in
Rubella
Biological
Denial (Shock)
16. Who proposed fluid/crystallized intelligence?
Raymond Cattell
Stage
Middle childhood
Preparatory Depression
17. Categories of old age: 65-74
Monozygotic twins
Punishment
Celibacy
Young-old
18. What are the four areas of taste that taste-buds recognize?
Amniocentesis
Sweet - bitter - salty - sour
Hollow phrases
Osteoporosis
19. What is: attraction to the opposite sex?
Heterosexual
Class inclusion
The infant wants to be in proximity of the person who cares for them as a form of self-preservation. If a child feels that their caregiver is nearby and attentive - they feel confident to explore their surroundings. If not - they feel anxious and ove
Dialectical perspective
20. Which thought process is: many ideas are brainstormed to explore many possible solutions; used in creative settings?
Elaboration
Ferdinand Lamaze
Divergent thinking
Id
21. The number which occurs the most often
Selective
Mode
Wilhelm Wundt
True
22. What coordinates all movements and muscles?
Pons
Cerebellum
Sexual orientation
Longitudinal fissure
23. Aside from learning disabilities - what physical problem do Kleinfelter people have?
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24. What is: a period in a child's development in which he/she is capable of understanding some things but not others
All drugs - including over the counter - aspirin - coffee
B.F. Skinner
Stage
Rubella
25. What is the characteristic that: you fill in areas that we do not have complete information about?
The Montessori Method
Cephalocaudal
Independent variable
Creative
26. When someone sees an incomplete form - they fill in the pieces and perceive it as it would be that way. What Gestalt principle is this an example of?
Depth perception
Closure
Convergent thinking
Classical conditioning works more to explain reflexive or unconscious reactions - Operant conditioning works to explain elective actions and reactions
27. What is: the study of substances which are harmful to prenatal development?
Breast-feeding
Accommodation
A census
Teratology
28. What is: where the lens changes its curves to help the eye focus?
Brain and spinal cord
Freud
Automatic
Accommodation
29. Which stage of development is: Autonomy vs. Shame and Doubt (making their own decisions)
On chromosomes
Toddler
Cerebrospinal fluid
Six months
30. What is: the fluid filled structure in the inner ear that looks like a snail?
Emergency contraception
Old Age
Cochlea
Creative
31. What are the two different classifications of intelligence?
Fluid intelligence and crystal intelligence
Holophrase syntax
Lens
Family practitioner
32. What is the variable that the experiment is trying to test?
Corpus callosum
Sympathetic nervous system
Critical period
Dependent variable
33. What regulates internal temperature - eating - sleeping - drinking - emotions - and sexual activity?
Hypothalamus
Echolalia
Sudden Infant Death Syndrome
The Montessori Method
34. Applied when a test measures something more than one facet
Stage
Self-actualization
Zone of Proximal Development
Content validity
35. Level 1 of Kohlberg's Theory of Moral Development includes which stages
Fetal alcohol syndrome
1 & 2
Neonate
Convergent thinking
36. A child that is always in a hurry
Sexual identity
Hurried-child
Hollow phrases
Old-old
37. What are: the harmful substances to a developing fetus?
Id
Ego
Teratogens
Spiritual - emotional - mental - and social health
38. 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)
Fit in
Operation
2
Babbling
39. A morpheme that must be w/ a word
Survey
Bound morpheme
Social development or social cognition
Amplitude
40. The final stage of Maslow's Hierarchy of needs. A stage you may never actually meet.
Self-actualization
Depo-Provera
Peer group
Reciprocal determinism
41. Second step in Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs
Social aspect of language
6
Safety
Cognitive
42. What is: term for how much someone values and respects themselves?
Convergent thinking
Self-esteem
Gestures
Mostly developed by the time of birth
43. What percentage of children are affected by hyperactivity?
Appearance - pulse - grimace (reflex) - activity - and respiration
Longitudinal Study
Young Adult
Three percent
44. What is the study done to show that infants have depth perception?
Informed consent
Full (46)
Visual cliff
Celibacy
45. Putting disabled students w/ normal students
Placebo effect
Ethics
Pons
Mainstreaming
46. What are the four stages of sexual response?
Dialectical perspective
Slowed growth - body/face malfunctions - nervous system disorders - mental retardation.
Excitement - plateau - orgasm - and resolution phases
Cut in half
47. Usually has a doctoral degree in psychology plus an internship; cannot prescribe medicine.
Psychometrics
Papillae
Clinical psychologist
Longitudinal fissure
48. What are the four lobes of the brain?
Daydreaming
Occipital - temporal - frontal - and parietal.
Up to 6 months of observation by doctors
Free morpheme
49. The name most associated with operant conditioning is who?
Natural observation
The Montessori Method
Suppression
B.F. Skinner
50. Categories of old age: 75-84
Middle-old
Operant conditioning
Maslow
Operant Conditioning