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DSST Lifespan Developmental Psychology

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1. Which stage of development is: Initiative vs. Guilt? (trying different roles)






2. Anything which makes a behavior more likely to occur






3. What is the drug to cause an abortion in the first 9 weeks of pregnancy?






4. What is: when adolescents truly believe themselves to be the center of the universe to those around them?






5. 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?






6. A higher number of the correlation coefficient closer to the number one shows a:






7. An environment where children live and attend school






8. What is a common learning disability in reading?






9. Children that are raised on the Kibbutz will often:






10. What is: the realization that objects stay the same even when they are made to look different?






11. What is the most dangerous trimester for the fetus (in regard to drug/alcohol use)?






12. When do children develop object permanence?






13. What are the four lobes of the brain?






14. What is: term used to describe a person's belief that they can perform a task successfully?






15. Who made the first IQ test?






16. Does a somatic (body) cell have a full - or half - set of chromosomes?






17. What houses memories and controls our responses to different sensory signals?






18. The variable in which the researcher has direct control over






19. Chomsky believed that the ability to develop language skills was inherited in ______.






20. When someone sees an incomplete form - they fill in the pieces and perceive it as it would be that way. What Gestalt principle is this an example of?






21. What is the chance of a baby having PKU?






22. 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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23. What are the four areas of taste that taste-buds recognize?






24. How was the visual cliff study conducted?

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25. 1 -2 -2 -2 -3 -3 -5 -8 -9 -9. What is the mode?






26. What is being able to reproduce knowledge from memory?






27. Who created structuralism?






28. A link between a stimulus and a response in which a person or animal associates or substitutes a neutral stimulus with the actual stimulus






29. What are the two parts responsible for bending light and focusing it in the back of the eye?






30. Who created functionalism?






31. The best way to teach children values is?






32. Defense mechanism: transferring your thoughts and feelings onto others






33. Who argued that if psychology was a true science - then psychologists should only study what they could see and measure (behaviorist theory)?






34. What is: the theory that all people are inherently good and motivated to achieve their full potential






35. A lower number of the correlation coefficient - closer to the number zero shows a:






36. Where nursing care is given meant to maximize the quality of life for someone who is dying






37. Third development of language






38. When do the two fontanels harden?

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






40. Who proposed fluid/crystallized intelligence?






41. What is: the type of thought that has to do with factual information--trivia - vocabulary - science - history?






42. Level 1 of Kohlberg's Theory of Moral Development






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






44. A set of cases of people randomly chosen from a large group to represent that large group






45. Defense mechanism: feelings are redirected to someone else






46. Stage in which whether you will be punished or not determines what is moral or not - also called the punishment and obiedience phase






47. Which though process is follower thinking?






48. Biological theories of aging: like everything else in the world - the human body wears out






49. When does language development begin?






50. What is: the moment an ovum/egg is fertilized by sperm?







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