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DSST Lifespan Developmental Psychology
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1. What is: a progesterone shot given every three months?
Celibacy
Id - Ego - Super Ego
Depo-Provera
Peer group
2. Stage in which you see the right action as what satisfies your personal needs; a person becomes aware of two different viewpoints
Self-report data
Cut in half
1) Gather info - 2) Generate hypothesis - 3) Test hypothesis - 4) Revise
Stage 2
3. What are the three parts of memory?
Encoding the information - represnting the information - and retrieving information from memory.
Automatic
Retina
Bargaining
4. What is: not being involved in a sexual relationship?
Celibacy
Response extinction
Cognitive theorist
Belonging and love
5. Final stage in the Kubler-Ross's Stages of Dying: 'I'm ready'
1) Gather info - 2) Generate hypothesis - 3) Test hypothesis - 4) Revise
Kubler-Ross's Stages of Dying
Acceptance
Three percent
6. What is the chance of a baby having PKU?
5
Classical conditioning
1 in 14 -000
Parallel play
7. What is the main relay station for incoming sensory signals to the cerebral cortex - and outgoing motor signals from it?
Infants were placed on a solid - opaque surface - and the mothers were placed at the end of the table - where the opaque ended and glass begun. The infants didn't want to cross the glass because they could see the distance between themselves and the
Cerebral cortex
Equilibrium
Thalamus
8. What is the name of the largest commissure?
Corpus callosum
Id - Ego - Super Ego
Self-concept
Acceptance
9. A higher number of the correlation coefficient closer to the number one shows a:
Miscarriages or stillbirths
B.F. Skinner
Permissive
Strong correlation
10. Types of child play in chronological order:
Unoccupied behavior - onlooker - solitary independent (plays alone) - parallel play (plays around but not w/ others) - associative - cooperative play
Infant
Old Age
Spiritual - emotional - mental - and social health
11. Who believed that the unconscious motivates our actions - through the id - ego - and superego?
Rods
Extinction
Zygote
Freud
12. What is: the theory to investigate the elements or 'structures' of the mind; classify structures and focus on conscious thought
Six or seven months
Divergent thinking
Socialization
Structuralism
13. What kind of childbirth did Dr. Grantly Dick Read start teaching?
Homophobia
Natural prepared childbirth
3-7
Watching their parents
14. What is the medical term for birth of a dead baby?
Gerontology
Stillbirth
None!!
Cooing
15. Second stage in the Kubler-Ross's Stages of Dying: 'This is unfair. Why me?'
Pituitary gland
A will
Francis Bacon--16th century
Anger (Emotion)
16. What is the term for identical twins?
Parietal lobe
Spermicides
Half (23)
Monozygotic twins
17. What is: the period of sexual maturation?
Puberty
Maslow
Mostly developed by the time of birth
Correlation Research
18. Teaches that when a certain action is performed - there are consequences--reinforces good behavior with extrinsic/intrinsic reinforcers
Operant conditioning
Parietal lobe
The brain/the cerebral cortex
Abstinence
19. What are areas in a baby's skull where cartilage hasn't yet hardened into bone?
Dialectical perspective
Brain and spinal cord
Daydreaming
Fontanels
20. What is the name for minimum amount of something we can detect or sense?
Occipital lobe
Parasympathetic
Stage 3
Absolute threshold
21. 1 -3 -4 -5 -7 -8 -10 what is the median?
Extrinsic reinforcer
5
3-7
Recall
22. Therapy that involves the whole family
Esteem needs
Family therapy
Injections
Preschooler
23. What is: the method to prevent an egg and sperm from being able to access each other?
Bound morpheme
Developmental norm
Reaction Formation
Contraception
24. What is: your thoughts - beliefs - attitudes - and values
Autoimmune Theory
Loudness
Mental health
Wilhelm Wundt
25. Children that are raised on the Kibbutz will often:
...
Biological
Weak correlation
Have more bland personalities and often difficult for them to create and maintain intimate relationships as they have a lack of emotional depth
26. Means that the participants must know the content of the experiment and be warned of any risk or harm
Olfactory epithelium
Positive reinforcer
Informed consent
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
27. What is the thought process that considers an idea or belief (thesis) and acknowledges the idea's opposite (antithesis)?
Kohlberg
Best friend
Dialectical perspective
Opens and closes to let the correct amount of light in
28. Rogers and Maslow are both:
It measures a child against their peers - in that moment
Sexually transmitted diseases
Humanistic Theorists
Conservation
29. What is: when the mother consumes alcohol while her babies are in the womb?
Cognitive
Fetal alcohol syndrome
Gestures
First trimester
30. Parenting styles: 'because I say so'--more prevalent in lower-class families
Teratology
Spiritual health
Dura mater
Authoritarian
31. What is: a period in a child's development in which he/she is capable of understanding some things but not others
Stage
Dependent variable
Cesarean birth
Vestibular sense
32. Stage in which a person makes decisions according to his or her conscience; the universal ethical principal orientation; not many people ever reach this stage
Through actions - doing what you believe is correct
Skin appearance - 'age spots' - hair
Stage 6
Independent variable
33. Age at which most children will identify specific 'best-friends'
10
Clinical psychologist
Spermicides
Spiritual - emotional - mental - and social health
34. What are the four layers that protect the brain?
Independent variable
Gender roles
Prenatal development
The skull - dura mater membrane - arachnoid layer - and pia mater.
35. What are the three different areas of the Autonomic Nervous System?
Binocular cues
Sympathetic - parasympathetic - and enteric
Watching their parents
The skull - dura mater membrane - arachnoid layer - and pia mater.
36. 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?
First trimester
Extrinsic reinforcer
Psychoanalytic theory
Assimilation
37. Visible signs of aging include:
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38. What is: the difference made to one's mind by the process of assimilation?
Authoritarian
Accommodation
Babbling
Slowed growth - body/face malfunctions - nervous system disorders - mental retardation.
39. What is the name for the 'crack' in the middle of the brain halves?
Gestalt psychology
5
Longitudinal fissure
Olfactory sense
40. Four steps of the scientific method include:
Jean Piaget
1) Gather info - 2) Generate hypothesis - 3) Test hypothesis - 4) Revise
Opens and closes to let the correct amount of light in
Resilient child
41. Who argued that classical conditioning explains some behaviors - but operant conditioning plays a much larger role?
5 & 6
3 & 4
Endocrine system
B.F. Skinner
42. How is IQ calculated?
Id - Ego - Super Ego
Family practitioner
Injections
Mental age/Chronological age - x 100
43. What is: the study of substances which are harmful to prenatal development?
Spiritual - emotional - mental - and social health
Cognitive theorist
Teratology
Loudness
44. Used to show links between people - events - actions - behaviors - etc. while not determining the caus - rather is linked to statistics
Norplant
The skull - dura mater membrane - arachnoid layer - and pia mater.
Correlation Research
IUD
45. Defense mechanism: feelings are redirected to someone else
Displacement
Childhood depression
Preoperational stage (ages 3-6)
Toxic shock syndrome
46. A correlation coefficient of zero
Babbling
No correlation
Behaviorism
Rh positive
47. What is: a permanent facility control done through surgical procedures?
Conceive at younger ages
Teratology
Sterilization
Modeling
48. What do children in early language development not understand?
Equilibrium
Figurative language
William James
Classical conditioning
49. John Bowlby felt that attachment held evolutionary purpose. Explain
Pons
Self-actualization - Esteem needs - Belonging and love - Safety - Physical needs
Recognition
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
50. Theory that every function in the child's cultural development appears twice: first between people - then inside the child.
Correlation Research
Vygotsky
Social development or social cognition
Cerebral anoxia