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DSST Lifespan Developmental Psychology
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1. What is the conception alternative where semen is deposited into the body via a thin tube?
Alternative - or artificial - insemination
Echolalia
Increase
50%
2. Deaf children will often be more proficient at communicating through _______ than do hearing infants - often being able to sign at ten months old
Psychological maltreatment
Vygotsky
Gestures
No
3. What is: method of contraception by having no direct contact with partner's genitals?
Sympathetic nervous system
Loudness
Abstinence
Slowed growth - body/face malfunctions - nervous system disorders - mental retardation.
4. A way of obtaining information about a specific type of information in which questionnaires are given out to participants who are then asked to answer the questions to the best of their ability
IUD
Survey
Ferdinand Lamaze
Outer ear
5. What is: a permanent facility control done through surgical procedures?
Sterilization
Self-concept
Autoerotic behavior
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
6. Third development of language
Increase
Negative reinforcer
Free morpheme
Hollow phrases
7. Contains the psychic content related to the primitive instincts of the body - notably sex and aggression - functioning entirely according to the pleasure-pain principle - seeking either immediate fulfillment or settling for a compromise fulfillment
Autonomic Nervous System
Reaction Formation
Id
Experimental research
8. Defense mechanism: a type of displacement - a redirection of the feeling into a socially productive activity
Sublimation
Developmental norm
Pavlov; classical conditioning
Biological; Behavioral; Cognitive; Humanistic; Psychoanalytical; Structuralism; Functionalism; Nature vs. Nurture
9. A child that bounces back from a difficult situation
Morphemes
Resilient child
Abstinence
Kohlberg
10. Dying w/o a will
Spermicides
Attention Deficit Disorder and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
Fluid intelligence and crystal intelligence
Intestate
11. What is the term for oxygen deficiency to the brain?
Gilligan
The brain/the cerebral cortex
Cerebral anoxia
Adolescent Egocentrism
12. Children that are raised on the Kibbutz will often:
Have more bland personalities and often difficult for them to create and maintain intimate relationships as they have a lack of emotional depth
Constant
Intrinsic reinforcer
Operant conditioning
13. Stages of friendship: Momentary playmates
Ivan Pavlov
Family therapy
Erogenous zones
3-7
14. Stages of friendship: intimate
9-15
Deferred imitation
Create and release chemicals into the blood
Zone of Proximal Development
15. What is the conception alternative where fertilization of the egg is done outside the body - and then transferred back into the body?
In vitro fertilization
Cerebrum
4-9
Random assignment
16. 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
Psychoanalytical
Zone of Proximal Development
More Knowledgeable Other (MKO)
Oral contraceptives
17. Extension of 'actions speak louder than words' in behavior; follow others' examples despite their words.
Social learning theory
Cognitive
Attention Deficit Disorder and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
Toxic shock syndrome
18. 1 -2 -2 -2 -3 -3 -5 -8 -9 -9. What is the mode?
2
Gender roles
Preoperational stage (ages 3-6)
Zone of Proximal Development
19. Once the disease strikes - an individual w/ Alzheimer's disease usually has their life expectancy is:
Cut in half
Assimilation
Egocentric behavior
Irritability - social responsiveness - and activity level
20. A disorder where the bones are weakened and become porous - like a sponge
Phonemes
Subject
Sexual identity
Osteoporosis
21. What is the perception characteristic that: you don't have to think about it for it to happen?
Stage 4
Automatic
Lewis Terman
Qualitative
22. Four steps of the scientific method include:
1) Gather info - 2) Generate hypothesis - 3) Test hypothesis - 4) Revise
B.F. Skinner
Unoccupied behavior - onlooker - solitary independent (plays alone) - parallel play (plays around but not w/ others) - associative - cooperative play
1 & 2
23. Age at which most children will identify specific 'best-friends'
10
Harry Harlow
Mental health
Mainstreaming
24. What is: the period of sexual maturation?
Gradually through shaping
Gene
Positive Correlation
Puberty
25. What do children in early language development not understand?
Ivan Pavlov
Figurative language
Response extinction
Excitement - plateau - orgasm - and resolution phases
26. What thought process characterizes creative - gifted - or advanced children?
Divergent thinkers
Selera
Creative
Noise
27. What syndrome occurs when someone two X and one Y chromosome...and what gender does this make?
Free morpheme
Six or seven months
Classical conditioning
Kleinfelter Syndrome; male
28. What is: attraction to the same sex?
Displacement
Alfred Binet
Nature
Homosexual
29. What are the four lobes of the brain?
Androgynous
Occipital - temporal - frontal - and parietal.
Random assignment
Stage 3
30. What is: the theory centered on behavior; see person as blank slate upon which impressions of experiences can be recorded.
Behavioral
Carl Rogers
Accommodation
Unoccupied behavior - onlooker - solitary independent (plays alone) - parallel play (plays around but not w/ others) - associative - cooperative play
31. What is the most popular method for giving birth?
Dialectical perspective
Medicated delivery
Fetal tobacco syndrome
Fetal alcohol syndrome
32. What types of drugs can hurt a developing fetus if taken by the mother?
Retina
5 & 6
All drugs - including over the counter - aspirin - coffee
Mendel
33. Individual sounds w/ in a word
Telegraphic speech
Cerebral anoxia
Phonemes
5
34. Gilligan believed that Kholberg's theory described the male progression which she called the what?
Automatic - selective - contextual - and creative
Morality of Justice
Brain and spinal cord
Toxic shock syndrome
35. What is: the theory centered on studying how the mind is involved in knowing - learning - remembering - thinking; study how the mind relates to behavior
Punishment
Invincibility fable
Mean
Cognitive
36. What most-extreme fate does syphillis often cause in infants?
Stage 5
Spiritual health
Negative reinforcer
Miscarriages or stillbirths
37. What is the ring of muscles that makes up the colored part of the eye?
Anger (Emotion)
Preoperational stage (ages 3-6)
Loudness
Iris
38. What is: the understanding of more advanced classification; that some sets are also sub-sets of a larger class?
Toddler
Random assignment
Class inclusion
On chromosomes
39. Theory that every function in the child's cultural development appears twice: first between people - then inside the child.
Syphillis and rubella
Figurative language
Cerebral palsy
Social development or social cognition
40. Defense mechanism: reverting to old behavior to avoid feelings
Mentally retarded
Monocular cues
Allow the skull's plates of bone to shift or flex - making childbirth easier.
Regression
41. In a study - the researchers have direct control over this variable
Bell would ring - then feed the dogs - Dogs would salivate when given food - Over time dogs began to salivate simply at ring of bell
Semantics
Independent variable
Neonate
42. Who coined the Theory of Moral Development?
Cornea
Kohlberg
The right hand - right eye - and speech
Skin appearance - 'age spots' - hair
43. What is: an M.D. who provides comprehensive care for people of all ages?
Suppression
Convergent thinking
Zone of Proximal Development
Family practitioner
44. What are: drugs taken within three days to prevent pregnancy from instances such as no protection - or a broken condom?
Morality of Justice
Half (23)
John Bowlby's Attachment Theory
Emergency contraception
45. What is: long lasting contraceptive where six capsules are injected in a woman's arm?
Dyscalcula
Norplant
They can be coached into learning a type of test--do better or worse - etc.
Hour of love
46. The ethical component of the personality and provides the moral standards by which the ego operates
Valid
Super Ego
Six months
Encoding the information - represnting the information - and retrieving information from memory.
47. What is a common learning disability in reading?
Hypokinetic diseases
Mental health
Dyslexia
Psychiatrist
48. What is: the number of full wavelengths that pass through a point in a given amount of time
Bisexual
On chromosomes
Socialization
Frequency
49. Aside from learning disabilities - what physical problem do Kleinfelter people have?
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50. What controls breathing and heart rate?
Nature
Pons
Bell would ring - then feed the dogs - Dogs would salivate when given food - Over time dogs began to salivate simply at ring of bell
Left hand - left eye - and simple comprehension