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DSST Lifespan Developmental Psychology
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Id - Ego - and Super Ego were all founded by who?
Dizygotic twins
Divergent thinking
Sigmund Freud
Alzheimer's Disease
2. The repetition of certain syllables
Miscarriages or stillbirths
Create and release chemicals into the blood
Babbling
Psychological Tests
3. What is: sheath of thin latex designed to catch sperm upon ejaculation?
Hurried-child
Condom
Perception
Adolescent
4. 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
Stage 3
Full (46)
Spiritual health
Stage 4
5. Third element: There is a gap between what the child can do with help - and what they can do on their own; shows when a child has finally learned it
Dyscalcula
Gender role stereotypes
Preconventional - conventional - postconventional
Zone of Proximal Development
6. A correlation coefficient of zero
The brain
Authoritarian
Gestures
No correlation
7. What is: when a person or animal responds to a neutral stimulus with a meaningful one
Classical conditioning
Classical conditioning works more to explain reflexive or unconscious reactions - Operant conditioning works to explain elective actions and reactions
Figurative language
Consciousness
8. What controls breathing and heart rate?
9-15
Gender roles
Pons
Cognitive improvement
9. 1 -3 -4 -5 -7 -8 -10 what is the median?
5
Rite of Passage
Proximodistal
Slowed growth - body/face malfunctions - nervous system disorders - mental retardation.
10. What is the perception characteristic that: you don't have to think about it for it to happen?
Retina
Autoimmune Theory
Automatic
Adrenal glands
11. A number between +1 and -1 that measures the strength between two variables
Autonomic Nervous System
4-9
Personality
Correlation coefficient
12. Where are genes carried?
On chromosomes
Pitch
Family therapy
Kibbutz
13. Fourth stage in the Kubler-Ross's Stages of Dying: 'There's nothing I can do about this'
Condom
Preparatory Depression
Peer group
Sexually transmitted diseases
14. What is the term for the death of a child under one year - for no apparent reason?
Sudden Infant Death Syndrome
3-7
Reciprocal determinism
Longitudinal fissure
15. Jean Piaget extensively used which research method to study children?
Through actions - doing what you believe is correct
Natural observation
Frontal lobe
Prenatal development
16. Is there currently a cure for Alzheimer's disease?
No
Nature
Stage
Semantics
17. Stage in which a person is concerned w/ how their action might affect society; the social contract orientation
Smell
Habituation
Suppression
Stage 5
18. Defense mechanism: a type of displacement - a redirection of the feeling into a socially productive activity
Sublimation
True
Accommodation
Independent variable
19. What is: the representation in the mind of a set of perceptions - ideas - and actions - which go together
Adolescent Egocentrism
12+
Habituation
Schema
20. What coordinates all movements and muscles?
Extrinsic reinforcer
Cerebellum
Attention Deficit Disorder and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
Retina
21. If you are A positive blood - what is that in terms of Rh factor?
Rh positive
Down syndrome
Middle childhood
Correlational research
22. What is the perception characteristic that: if you have heard a movie is scary - you might be more inclined to get scared?
Young-old
Gradually through shaping
Contextual
Left hand - left eye - and simple comprehension
23. Who coined the Theory of Moral Development?
Kohlberg
A will
Kibbutz
Sampling
24. What is another name for a sound wave's amplitude?
Psychological Tests
Contextual
Loudness
Social development or social cognition
25. What two other chemicals do the adrenal glands secrete?
Middle-old
Subject
Visual cliff
Epinephrine and norepinephrine
26. What is the least developed part of a newborn (growth is not complete)?
Wilhelm Wundt
Alternative - or artificial - insemination
Old Age
The brain/the cerebral cortex
27. Third step in Maslow's Hierarchy of needs in which you may want to meet needs of belongings and love through relationships
Lens
Informed consent
Belonging and love
Biological; Behavioral; Cognitive; Humanistic; Psychoanalytical; Structuralism; Functionalism; Nature vs. Nurture
28. What two things make up the central nervous system?
No
Wear-and-Tear Theory
Brain and spinal cord
Sympathetic nervous system
29. How is extinction best achieved?
Zone of Proximal Development
Gradually through shaping
The brain/the cerebral cortex
Gestalt psychology
30. A person who uses ______ has a stated position - but also acknowledges that it may change over time.
Selective attention
Fontanels
Allow the skull's plates of bone to shift or flex - making childbirth easier.
Dialectical perspective
31. What is the ability to identify correctly something encountered before?
Mode
Self-actualization - Esteem needs - Belonging and love - Safety - Physical needs
Recognition
Unoccupied behavior - onlooker - solitary independent (plays alone) - parallel play (plays around but not w/ others) - associative - cooperative play
32. What is: generalizations about each gender - such as that men are aggressive and logical - and women are nurturing and emotional
Gender role stereotypes
Projection
Temporal lobe
Cognitive
33. Who created functionalism?
William James
Mainstreaming
Sterilization
Id - Ego - Super Ego
34. Extension of 'actions speak louder than words' in behavior; follow others' examples despite their words.
Social learning theory
Amniocentesis
Alternative - or artificial - insemination
Humanistic
35. What is the thought process that considers an idea or belief (thesis) and acknowledges the idea's opposite (antithesis)?
Chomsky
Response extinction
Dialectical perspective
Class inclusion
36. Defense mechanism: reverting to old behavior to avoid feelings
Regression
Automatic
Displacement
Semantics
37. What is: method of contraception by having no direct contact with partner's genitals?
Abstinence
Adolescent
Authoritarian
Put babies on their backs to sleep - and not have anything extra (toys - pillows etc) in the bed or crib.
38. Which stage of development is: Trust vs. Mistrust?
Automatic
Sampling
Classical conditioning works more to explain reflexive or unconscious reactions - Operant conditioning works to explain elective actions and reactions
Infant
39. Removing something unpleasant from a situation - to make a behavior more likely
Negative reinforcer
Left hand - left eye - and simple comprehension
Kleinfelter Syndrome; male
Zone of Proximal Development
40. A lower number of the correlation coefficient - closer to the number zero shows a:
Sweet - bitter - salty - sour
Conservation
Weak correlation
Occipital - temporal - frontal - and parietal.
41. Applied when a test measures something more than one facet
Laboratory observation
Content validity
3
1 in 14 -000
42. What is the part of the ear that includes the pinna and external auditory canal?
Outer ear
Neonate
Through actions - doing what you believe is correct
Structuralism
43. Believed each person had an idea of a 'perfect person' and tried to work towards being like that person as much as possible - believing that people needed to become 'fully functioning' individuals
Cerebral palsy
Gestalt psychology
Positive Correlation
Carl Rogers
44. What is the medical term for birth of a dead baby?
Displacement
Classical conditioning
Timbre
Stillbirth
45. Who developed the theory of social development?
No
Rite of Passage
Vygotsky
Mental health
46. Time at which most children begin to speak actual words
Syphillis and rubella
Equilibrium
10-14 months
Psychological maltreatment
47. Which lobe is related to hearing?
Androgynous
Behavioral
Temporal lobe
Depth perception
48. What is: the ability to associate something from one area of knowledge - and use that to determine or imagine what it is like in other aspects?
Structuralism
Cross-modal perception
Visual cliff
Dialectical perspective
49. What is: the ear's interpretation of a sound's frequency
Opens and closes to let the correct amount of light in
Double blind
Pitch
Childhood depression
50. What is: the theory centered on studying how the mind is involved in knowing - learning - remembering - thinking; study how the mind relates to behavior
Sexual identity
Cognitive
Operant conditioning
If the mom and child have different blood types - the mom's cells can attack the baby.