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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. Categories of old age: 65-74






2. What is: psychological definition for having more equal personality characteristics between male&female?






3. What is: a progesterone shot given every three months?






4. Theory by Bandura; the interaction of a person's personality - the environment - and the behavior.






5. Theory that language abilities devlop innately; there must be some mechanism in the brain which aids in language acquisition; who came up with this theory?






6. What are the three things to monitor - to measure temperament in infants?






7. The scientific study of words and sentences






8. Where a group of people live together and the children of all the people are raised by one or two people






9. What is a common learning disability in reading?






10. The negative effects of sensory deprivation (not as much attention) are more likely to _______ w/ the length of the stage.






11. What is the part of the ear that includes the oval window - cochlea - and organ of Corti?






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






13. What do doctors agree is the best way to feed babies?






14. Stage at which children are egocentric and will therefore think divorce is their fault






15. Babies are rewarded with food/attention with they say 'mama' etc - so they continue to say those words and learn new ones; what idea does this theory follow?






16. Individual sounds w/ in a word






17. What is: the theory centered on behavior; see person as blank slate upon which impressions of experiences can be recorded.






18. What gland releases hormones that regulate hormone secretions of other glands?






19. What are the four stages of sexual response?






20. What is the least developed part of a newborn (growth is not complete)?






21. Who created structuralism?






22. Why does a gamete have a half set of chromosomes?






23. What is the transparent part in the front of the eye?






24. Level 2 of Kohlberg's Theory of Moral Development includes which stages






25. According to both Kohlberg and Piaget - the most immature reason to do something is to:






26. Who coined the Theory of Moral Development?






27. Failure to thrive is caused by:






28. What is the perception characteristic that: you don't have to think about it for it to happen?






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






30. What is the variable that the experiment is trying to test?






31. A term used in research used to describe something measurable usually expressed as a number






32. A morpheme that can be a word on its own






33. Which receptor is used for color vision?






34. Usually has a doctoral degree in psychology plus an internship; cannot prescribe medicine.






35. Who was the psychoanalyst who documented stages of emotional growth in regards to babies?






36. What is the term for oxygen deficiency to the brain?






37. A number between +1 and -1 that measures the strength between two variables






38. Why isn't an IQ test a good indicator for children over long periods of time?






39. What is the ring of muscles that makes up the colored part of the eye?






40. First development of language; pre-speech






41. Who introduced the scientific method?






42. What determines physical traits and is inherited from one or both parents?






43. What 4 main problems do fetal alcohol syndrome cause?






44. What is the ability to identify correctly something encountered before?






45. What kind of childbirth did Dr. Grantly Dick Read start teaching?






46. Categories of old age: 75-84






47. There are usually two groups in an experiment - titled:






48. Where are genes carried?






49. What controls breathing and heart rate?






50. Why is self-report data not as reliable as other research methods?