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DSST Lifespan Developmental Psychology
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1. What is: long lasting contraceptive where six capsules are injected in a woman's arm?
All drugs - including over the counter - aspirin - coffee
Childhood depression
Norplant
Fontanels
2. What is a learning disability in math - where concepts are learned one day and forgotten the next?
Hypothalamus
Dyscalcula
Classification
Commissures
3. The scientific study of words and sentences
Semantics
Structuralism
Qualitative
Have more bland personalities and often difficult for them to create and maintain intimate relationships as they have a lack of emotional depth
4. What is the main symptom of hyperactivity?
Pia mater
Displacement
10-14 months
Short attention span
5. What is: the theory focused on 'how' of behavior; minds are a continuous flow of information about experiences - and role is to study the mind/behavior as they adapt to the environment
Mental health
Functionalism
Rationalization
Six months
6. What is the middle number in a set of data called?
Intrinsic reinforcer
Median
Six or seven months
Amniocentesis
7. 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)
Operation
Survey
Diaphragm
Dependent variable
8. Why is self-report data not as reliable as other research methods?
Proximodistal
Pitch
Dependent variable
Subjects may be dishonest w/ their answers
9. What are the four stages of sexual response?
Schema
Excitement - plateau - orgasm - and resolution phases
B.F. Skinner
Classical conditioning works more to explain reflexive or unconscious reactions - Operant conditioning works to explain elective actions and reactions
10. What gland releases hormones that regulate hormone secretions of other glands?
Ego
Telegraphic speech
Pituitary gland
Preoperational stage (ages 3-6)
11. What is the drug to cause an abortion in the first 9 weeks of pregnancy?
RU-486
Positive reinforcer
Hospice
Ivan Pavlov
12. Cultural bias not generally known across all subcultures
Structuralism
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
Psychometrics
Physical needs
13. Defined as diseases which are either related to or caused by a sedentary lifestyle - in other words - caused by the lack of regular exercise or activity
None!!
Hypokinetic diseases
Increase
Super Ego
14. What are the four characteristics of perception?
Denial
Visual cliff
Automatic - selective - contextual - and creative
Lewis Terman
15. Stages that a person goes through when they find out they have an incurable disease or find out they are going to die
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16. What two diseases - when caught early in the pregnancy - are most dangerous to the fetus?
Drugs - diseases (like HIV - rubella) - and pollutants (mercury - radiation - etc)
The cerebrum
If the mom and child have different blood types - the mom's cells can attack the baby.
Syphillis and rubella
17. Four steps of the scientific method include:
Hour of love
1) Gather info - 2) Generate hypothesis - 3) Test hypothesis - 4) Revise
6-12
Emotional health
18. Which stage of development is: Industry vs. Inferiority? (working with others)
School-age Child
Cerebral palsy
Spermicides
Pitch
19. Which part of the ANS is the arousing part of the system?
Sympathetic nervous system
Deferred imitation
Gradually through shaping
Erik Erikson
20. A morpheme that must be w/ a word
Mode
Bound morpheme
Sexual orientation
Freud
21. What does the left half of the brain control?
The right hand - right eye - and speech
Perception
Nature
Operant conditioning
22. Why did studies used by Piaget and Freud lead to wrong conclusions?
They were not scientifically performed
Obstetrician-gynecologist
Young-old
Opens and closes to let the correct amount of light in
23. What is: when a person or animal responds to a neutral stimulus with a meaningful one
Syphillis and rubella
Classical conditioning
The cerebrum
Longitudinal Study
24. The integrator between the outer and inner worlds - as well as the id and the superego. Gives continuity and consistency to behavior by providing a personal point of reference - which relates to the events of the past and actions of the present and o
Alzheimer's Disease
Ivan Pavlov
Ego
Hurried-child
25. There are usually two groups in an experiment - titled:
Family situation - the world around you - lifespan - and maturity.
Experimental group and control group
They can be coached into learning a type of test--do better or worse - etc.
Attention Deficit Disorder and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
26. How is ADHD diagnosed?
Operation
Up to 6 months of observation by doctors
Intestate
B.F. Skinner
27. What is the method in which a variable and constant are use to test theories?
The brain/the cerebral cortex
Hypothalamus
Avoid punishment
Experimental research
28. Who believed that the unconscious motivates our actions - through the id - ego - and superego?
Freud
On chromosomes
Correlational research
Dialectical perspective
29. What is: the representation in the mind of a set of perceptions - ideas - and actions - which go together
They can be coached into learning a type of test--do better or worse - etc.
Schema
Stage
Spiritual health
30. Defense mechanism: Turning a feeling into the exact opposite feeling
Cesarean birth
Reaction Formation
Mentally retarded
Psychoanalytical
31. Fourth stage in the Kubler-Ross's Stages of Dying: 'There's nothing I can do about this'
Convergent thinking
As they age
Preparatory Depression
Qualitative
32. Chomsky believed that the ability to develop language skills was inherited in ______.
Loudness
Genes
Visual cliff
Classical conditioning works more to explain reflexive or unconscious reactions - Operant conditioning works to explain elective actions and reactions
33. Who created structuralism?
Wilhelm Wundt
Intrinsic reinforcer
Phonemes
3 & 4
34. How is extinction best achieved?
Childhood depression
Gradually through shaping
Genes
Adrenal glands
35. In a child - can be expressed as 'nobody likes me'
Increase
Attention Deficit Disorder and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
Stage
Childhood depression
36. What types of drugs can hurt a developing fetus if taken by the mother?
Kohlberg
Ethics
All drugs - including over the counter - aspirin - coffee
2
37. The final stage of Maslow's Hierarchy of needs. A stage you may never actually meet.
Babbling
Selera
Self-actualization
Noise
38. Rang the bell each time he fed the dog; eventually how early did the dogs start salivating?
Amplitude
Three percent
Watching their parents
As soon as the bell was rung
39. Self-esteem begins forming in:
Middle childhood
Irritability - social responsiveness - and activity level
Operant conditioning
Independent variable
40. What is: the theory that all people are inherently good and motivated to achieve their full potential
Humanistic
Hollow phrases
Extinction
Emotional health
41. What is the conception alternative where semen is deposited into the body via a thin tube?
Cellular Theory
Alternative - or artificial - insemination
Middle-age Adult
Stage
42. The smallest unit of a word which has meaning - may be bound or free
Diaphragm
Informed consent
Stage
Morphemes
43. What is: the amount of pressure produced by a sound wave - measured in decibels?
Spiritual - emotional - mental - and social health
Stage 2
Amplitude
Selera
44. When one variable increase - another variable increases. We call this a what?
Positive Correlation
Selective attention
Young-old
Mental health
45. Stage at which children are egocentric and will therefore think divorce is their fault
90%
Egocentric behavior
Sweet - bitter - salty - sour
Preoperational stage (ages 3-6)
46. Who created the first scientific psychology laboratory?
Irritability - social responsiveness - and activity level
Rite of Passage
Wilhelm Wundt
Intestate
47. What is the conception alternative where fertilization of the egg is done outside the body - and then transferred back into the body?
Structuralism
Commissures
In vitro fertilization
23 pairs
48. Rogers and Maslow are both:
Zone of Proximal Development
You need two - one from each parent - to conceive.
Midwife
Humanistic Theorists
49. What is being able to reproduce knowledge from memory?
Midwife
Endocrine system
Heterosexual
Recall
50. A number between +1 and -1 that measures the strength between two variables
Mendel
Binocular cues
Authoritarian
Correlation coefficient