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DSST Lifespan Developmental Psychology
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1. Level 1 of Kohlberg's Theory of Moral Development includes which stages
Self-actualization - Esteem needs - Belonging and love - Safety - Physical needs
Harry Harlow
1 & 2
Zygote
2. A morpheme that can be a word on its own
Down syndrome
Bargaining
Humanistic Theorists
Free morpheme
3. What is: the amount of pressure produced by a sound wave - measured in decibels?
Rh positive
Amplitude
Psychoanalytic theory
Cellular Theory
4. Id - Ego - and Super Ego were all founded by who?
They were not scientifically performed
Sigmund Freud
Reaction Formation
Middle-age Adult
5. Why isn't an IQ test a good indicator for children over long periods of time?
Mostly developed by the time of birth
Operant conditioning
Median
They can be coached into learning a type of test--do better or worse - etc.
6. Who conducted a longitudinal study of smart kids - resulting that they become happy adults?
Lewis Terman
Permissive
4-9
Neonate
7. What is the term for oxygen deficiency to the brain?
Cerebral anoxia
Have more bland personalities and often difficult for them to create and maintain intimate relationships as they have a lack of emotional depth
Strong correlation
Valid
8. A set of cases of people randomly chosen from a large group to represent that large group
Dura mater
Amniocentesis
Experimental research
Sampling
9. What is: irrelevant stimuli that compete for our attention (like traffic)
Limbic system
Visual cliff
Five
Noise
10. What is: located in the limbic system - with primary function to store memories?
Hippocampus
Stage 1
Conceive at younger ages
Mean
11. What is the clear membrane in front of the eye that protects it?
Semantics
Psychiatrist
Cornea
Francis Bacon--16th century
12. In the Harlow experiment: between the wire monkey+bottle - and cloth monkey+no bottle - which fake mother did the babies prefer?
As they age
The cloth monkey
Jean Piaget
Spiritual - emotional - mental - and social health
13. What is: the difference made to one's mind by the process of assimilation?
Ego
Accommodation
Response extinction
Vestibular sense
14. Second step in Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs
Safety
Heterosexual
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
Midwife
15. Does a gamete (reproductive) cell have full or half set of chromosomes?
Gender roles
Mentally retarded
Half (23)
Long labors or birth complications
16. Four steps of the scientific method include:
Sympathetic - parasympathetic - and enteric
Miscarriages or stillbirths
They can be coached into learning a type of test--do better or worse - etc.
1) Gather info - 2) Generate hypothesis - 3) Test hypothesis - 4) Revise
17. The larger the sample:
Breast-feeding
The more accurate the result
Esteem needs
Homophobia
18. 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
Cellular Theory
Hypokinetic diseases
Stillbirth
...
19. What is another name for a newborn?
Neonate
50%
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
Esteem needs
20. Categories of old age: 85+
Old-old
Alzheimer's Disease
Free morpheme
Six months
21. What is a specific period in development when a certain event has the greatest impact? (For example - a certain period of time when a young bird can learn to fly)
Half (23)
Longitudinal Study
Gestures
Critical period
22. We smell when airborne molecules of an odor reach tiny receptor cells in the top of the nasal cavity; what is the name of this receptor area?
Toxic shock syndrome
Selective
Midwife
Olfactory epithelium
23. A method of modifying behavior - by ignoring the behavior so you don't have the response
5 & 6
Subject
Response extinction
John Bowlby's Attachment Theory
24. What 4 main problems do fetal alcohol syndrome cause?
Olfactory sense
None!!
Harry Harlow
Slowed growth - body/face malfunctions - nervous system disorders - mental retardation.
25. What is: a statistical measure of typical scores for categories of information?
Zone of Proximal Development
Nature
Developmental norm
Family therapy
26. What thought process is supported by the example that: infants are given an object to hold - and then can recognize by sight the object.
Frontal lobe
The cerebrum
Denial
Cross-modal perception
27. What is the chance of a baby having PKU?
Rods
Pupil
1 in 14 -000
5
28. What are: general term for the reproductive organs in a male or female?
Fit in
Gonads
Authoritarian
Hospice
29. What percentage of children are affected by hyperactivity?
Three percent
Hour of love
The penis doesn't grow and breasts may develop.
Slowed growth - body/face malfunctions - nervous system disorders - mental retardation.
30. Visible signs of aging include:
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31. What are the four layers that protect the brain?
Adrenal glands
The skull - dura mater membrane - arachnoid layer - and pia mater.
Survey
Wilhelm Wundt
32. What is: focusing attention on a small amount of information?
Heterosexual
Excitement - plateau - orgasm - and resolution phases
Class inclusion
Selective attention
33. What is: the study of substances which are harmful to prenatal development?
Pituitary gland
Teratology
Olfactory sense
Laboratory observation
34. In a child - can be expressed as 'nobody likes me'
Teratogens
Amniocentesis
Puberty
Childhood depression
35. Theory that every function in the child's cultural development appears twice: first between people - then inside the child.
Commissures
Dependent variable
Experimental research
Social development or social cognition
36. In a study - the researchers have direct control over this variable
Correlation Research
Independent variable
6-12
Kohlberg
37. When can a person's short term memory become incapacitated?
William James
As soon as the bell was rung
Nature vs. nurture
As they age
38. What is the name of the scientist known as the father of genetics and inheritance?
Commissures
...
Mendel
Social learning theory
39. Biological theories of aging: we only have a certain number of cells - which are programmed to only replicate so many times before they are finished and the body begins to deteriorate
Zone of Proximal Development
Excitement - plateau - orgasm - and resolution phases
Preconventional Morality
Cellular Theory
40. Means that the participants must know the content of the experiment and be warned of any risk or harm
School-age Child
Longitudinal Study
Gentle birth
Informed consent
41. What are the four lobes of the brain?
In vitro fertilization
The more accurate the result
Skin appearance - 'age spots' - hair
Occipital - temporal - frontal - and parietal.
42. What is the method of surgical delivery?
B.F. Skinner
Temporal lobe
Cesarean birth
ADHD
43. Applied when a test measures something more than one facet
William James
Oral contraceptives
Positive reinforcer
Content validity
44. Biological theories of aging: the number of cells that have problems or mutations that increase w/ age
Strong correlation
Genetic Mutation
Informed consent
Drugs - diseases (like HIV - rubella) - and pollutants (mercury - radiation - etc)
45. What is another term for the system of hearing?
Auditory System
The cloth monkey
Frequency
Displacement
46. What are the three different areas of the Autonomic Nervous System?
Three percent
Loudness
Sympathetic - parasympathetic - and enteric
Psychological maltreatment
47. What is: your sense of being a man or woman as defined by society?
Cornea and lens
Authoritarian
Gender
Outer ear
48. What houses memories and controls our responses to different sensory signals?
Convergent thinking
Breast-feeding
Obstetrician-gynecologist - family practitioner - or midwife
The cerebrum
49. A lower number of the correlation coefficient - closer to the number zero shows a:
Weak correlation
10
Dyslexia
As they age
50. What is the white part of the eye that protects and manages the shape of the eye?
Selera
Permissive
12+
Holophrase syntax