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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. A lower number of the correlation coefficient - closer to the number zero shows a:






2. Level 1 of Kohlberg's Theory of Moral Development






3. Recent research supports that children learn from listening to their parents talk to them in 'baby talk'; which aspect of language is this?






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






5. When a participant starts to feel the effects of the drug but is actually taking a sugar pill or placebo






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






7. A type of research done inside of a lab - selected to monitor specific biological changes in individuals by using expensive and sophisticated machinery






8. Observing someone's behavior and basing our own behavior on it






9. Where is the pituitary gland located - and how big is it?






10. Rogers and Maslow are both:






11. The smallest unit of a word which has meaning - may be bound or free






12. What are the four areas of taste that taste-buds recognize?






13. What is the most dangerous trimester for the fetus (in regard to drug/alcohol use)?






14. Which lobe is related to hearing?






15. What is the drug to cause an abortion in the first 9 weeks of pregnancy?






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






17. What houses memories and controls our responses to different sensory signals?






18. What is: not being involved in a sexual relationship?






19. What is the method in which a variable and constant are use to test theories?






20. Who developed the theory of social development?






21. How is ADHD diagnosed?






22. Who did the study between stimulus and response with dogs; and what did he discover?






23. Biological theories of aging: the number of cells that have problems or mutations that increase w/ age






24. Stage in which whether you will be punished or not determines what is moral or not - also called the punishment and obiedience phase






25. What sends commands to all other parts of the body?






26. What is the name for the bundles of axons - used to communicate between the two halves of brain?






27. What is a learning disability in math - where concepts are learned one day and forgotten the next?






28. How does the pupil work?






29. Level 3 of Kohlberg's Theory of Moral Development includes which stages






30. Final stage in the Kubler-Ross's Stages of Dying: 'I'm ready'






31. Which stage of development is: Autonomy vs. Shame and Doubt (making their own decisions)






32. How is IQ calculated?






33. Second development of language - still pre-speech; repetition of meaningful sounds






34. What is: the study of substances which are harmful to prenatal development?






35. In a kibbutz - the real parents of children may see them for one hour a day - a time referred to as the __________.






36. What glands affect the mood - energy level - and stress?






37. What is another term for the system of hearing?






38. What are the four lobes of the brain?






39. All senses report to the thalamus except for one--which?






40. Rang the bell each time he fed the dog; eventually how early did the dogs start salivating?






41. What are: vibrations in the air that we receive through the ear to be processed?






42. Who created structuralism?






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






44. The awareness of being a male or female






45. 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?






46. What is the method of surgical delivery?






47. What is the conception alternative where semen is deposited into the body via a thin tube?






48. What is another name for a sound wave's amplitude?






49. A set of cases of people randomly chosen from a large group to represent that large group






50. What is the name for depth perception cues made with both eyes?