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DSST Lifespan Developmental Psychology
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1. In a child - can be expressed as 'nobody likes me'
Cellular Theory
Free morpheme
Six months
Childhood depression
2. What is: the ability to associate something from one area of knowledge - and use that to determine or imagine what it is like in other aspects?
Multiple caretakers
Suppression
Cross-modal perception
Biological; Behavioral; Cognitive; Humanistic; Psychoanalytical; Structuralism; Functionalism; Nature vs. Nurture
3. The ethical component of the personality and provides the moral standards by which the ego operates
3 & 4
Super Ego
Wear-and-Tear Theory
Positive reinforcer
4. What is: sexual self-stimulation or masturbation?
Psychological maltreatment
Dizygotic twins
Autoerotic behavior
Lewis Terman
5. What are: the principles and standards of behavior - including morals; right/wrong and having one's actions correlate with their beliefs
Ethics
A will
Homosexual
6-12
6. Which thought process is: many ideas are brainstormed to explore many possible solutions; used in creative settings?
Divergent thinking
Three
Preoperational stage (ages 3-6)
Stage 5
7. What is: the elated feeling adolescents have - that they are immune to risks - mortality and probability; false sense of security thinking they will never fall or get caught.
Invincibility fable
Sound waves
Old Age
Stage
8. Biological theories of aging: the number of cells that have problems or mutations that increase w/ age
Syphillis and rubella
Genetic Mutation
Fluid intelligence
A census
9. What is: psychological definition for having more equal personality characteristics between male&female?
Morphemes
Mental health
Ego
Androgynous
10. Where nursing care is given meant to maximize the quality of life for someone who is dying
Ageism
Hospice
Condom
Selera
11. What are areas in a baby's skull where cartilage hasn't yet hardened into bone?
Sampling
Dizygotic twins
Cephalocaudal
Fontanels
12. Third stage in the Kubler-Ross's Stages of Dying: 'If you don't die I will do the following...'
Babbling
Bargaining
6
Watching their parents
13. Which of these diseases can cause miscarriage - stillbirth - heart defects - deafness - and other problems?
Operant Conditioning
Rubella
Genetic Mutation
Psychoanalytic theory
14. What is the most dangerous trimester for the fetus (in regard to drug/alcohol use)?
None!!
Stage
First trimester
Experimental group and control group
15. 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?
Chomsky
Mendel
Recognition
Object permanence
16. What syndrome is characterized by small stature - poor coordination - hyperactive - learning disabilities - mental retardation - or large head?
Amplitude
12+
Olfactory sense
Fetal Alcohol Syndrome
17. Child's realization their sex will stay the same
Gender conservation
Hurried-child
Correlation Research
School-age Child
18. Who developed the theory of social development?
B.F. Skinner
Independent variable
Pituitary gland
Vygotsky
19. What is the drug to cause an abortion in the first 9 weeks of pregnancy?
Psychological maltreatment
Stillbirth
Social aspect of language
RU-486
20. Observing someone's behavior and basing our own behavior on it
Teratology
3-7
Kleinfelter Syndrome; male
Modeling
21. What are: chemicals designed to kill sperm?
Autoimmune Theory
IUD
Social development or social cognition
Spermicides
22. What is the factor that always stays the same?
No correlation
The cerebrum
Constant
Middle childhood
23. What kind of childbirth did Dr. Grantly Dick Read start teaching?
Cross-modal perception
Wilhelm Wundt
Natural prepared childbirth
Figurative language
24. Second development of language - still pre-speech; repetition of meaningful sounds
Abstinence
Commissures
Up to 6 months of observation by doctors
Babbling
25. Why is autism rare in children for the first 2 1/2 years?
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26. Teaches that when a certain action is performed - there are consequences--reinforces good behavior with extrinsic/intrinsic reinforcers
Occipital lobe
Abortion
Babbling
Operant conditioning
27. What is: attraction to the opposite sex?
Heterosexual
Sexually transmitted diseases
Preparatory Depression
Organ of corti
28. What is a disease also called German measles?
Rubella
Accommodation
Weak correlation
Cross-modal perception
29. Stages of friendship: Momentary playmates
3-7
Closure
Autonomic Nervous System
Stillbirth
30. When a participant starts to feel the effects of the drug but is actually taking a sugar pill or placebo
Up to 6 months of observation by doctors
Extrinsic reinforcer
Thalamus
Placebo effect
31. What is a common learning disability in reading?
Kubler-Ross's Stages of Dying
Dyslexia
Fetal alcohol syndrome
Stage 3
32. Anything which makes a behavior more likely to occur
Reinforcer
Weak correlation
Reciprocal determinism
Automatic - selective - contextual - and creative
33. What is: not being involved in a sexual relationship?
Esteem needs
Celibacy
Ferdinand Lamaze
Rh positive
34. 1 + 5 + 6. What is the mean?
4
Cross-modal perception
Oral contraceptives
1 in 14 -000
35. Children that are raised on the Kibbutz are used to study the effects of what?
Allow the skull's plates of bone to shift or flex - making childbirth easier.
Multiple caretakers
Parasympathetic
6-12
36. What is the perception characteristic that: if you have heard a movie is scary - you might be more inclined to get scared?
2
Contextual
Around age two
Belonging and love
37. What coordinates all movements and muscles?
Erik Erikson
Cerebellum
Sampling
Osteoporosis
38. Whatmakes a person able to see objects are they are - in 3 dimensions?
Papillae
Survey
Wilhelm Wundt
Depth perception
39. What is: when a person or animal responds to a neutral stimulus with a meaningful one
Hippocampus
Classical conditioning
Cornea and lens
Ageism
40. The scientific study of words and sentences
Genes
Semantics
Gradually through shaping
Parietal lobe
41. Usually has a doctoral degree in psychology plus an internship; cannot prescribe medicine.
Clinical psychologist
Mental health
Permissive
Attention Deficit Disorder and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
42. What are the three things to monitor - to measure temperament in infants?
Creative
Raymond Cattell
Correlational research
Irritability - social responsiveness - and activity level
43. Parenting styles: makes few demands - hardly ever punishes
Obstetrician-gynecologist
Encoding the information - represnting the information - and retrieving information from memory.
Chomsky
Permissive
44. Who first coined self-efficacy?
Bandura
Cooing
Family situation - the world around you - lifespan - and maturity.
Organ of corti
45. What is the least developed part of a newborn (growth is not complete)?
Family situation - the world around you - lifespan - and maturity.
Neonate
The brain/the cerebral cortex
Morphemes
46. What is a fertilized ovum or egg?
Zygote
Not fully developed; but can distinguish color - track movement - and bright objects.
Norplant
Ivan Pavlov
47. What is: sheath of thin latex designed to catch sperm upon ejaculation?
William James
Self-actualization
Condom
Intrinsic reinforcer
48. Gilligan believed that ________ conflicted between self and other - while ________ conflicted between self and justice
Psychological maltreatment
Developmental norm
Women - men
Noise
49. What is: the number of full wavelengths that pass through a point in a given amount of time
The more accurate the result
1 & 2
Frequency
Gestures
50. A baby repeating what you just said
Denial (Shock)
Dyslexia
Echolalia
Bias