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DSST Lifespan Developmental Psychology
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1. When is anoxia a problem in births?
Middle ear
Long labors or birth complications
Fontanels
Dependent variable
2. What is the part of the ear that includes the oval window - cochlea - and organ of Corti?
Oral contraceptives
Olfactory sense
Hippocampus
Inner ear
3. What is: focusing attention on a small amount of information?
Contextual
Stillbirth
Pituitary gland
Selective attention
4. The ethical component of the personality and provides the moral standards by which the ego operates
Acceptance
Personality
No
Super Ego
5. What is: your thoughts - beliefs - attitudes - and values
Mental health
Loudness
Organ of corti
B.F. Skinner
6. What is: when adolescents truly believe themselves to be the center of the universe to those around them?
Median
Fit in
As soon as the bell was rung
Adolescent Egocentrism
7. Which stage of development is: Identity vs. Role Confusion? (who am I)
Cerebral palsy
Adolescent
Spiritual health
Kleinfelter Syndrome; male
8. What is: an experienced practitioner who can attend pregnancies and deliveries?
Middle ear
Midwife
Diaphragm
Androgynous
9. Chomsky believed that the ability to develop language skills was inherited in ______.
Strong correlation
Alternative - or artificial - insemination
Genes
4-9
10. What kind of childbirth did Dr. Grantly Dick Read start teaching?
A will
Quantitative
3-7
Natural prepared childbirth
11. Once the disease strikes - an individual w/ Alzheimer's disease usually has their life expectancy is:
Hurried-child
Cut in half
Francis Bacon--16th century
Strong correlation
12. What is: long lasting contraceptive where six capsules are injected in a woman's arm?
Cellular Theory
6-12
No
Norplant
13. Stages of friendship: one way assistance
William James
Extinction
4-9
Cerebellum
14. What is the method of surgical delivery?
Cesarean birth
Erik Erikson
Jean Piaget
Cognitive improvement
15. How much is hearing developed in neonates?
Mostly developed by the time of birth
Assimilation
Teratogens
Miscarriages or stillbirths
16. What does the left half of the brain control?
Harry Harlow
Recognition
Object permanence
The right hand - right eye - and speech
17. What is: the realization that objects stay the same even when they are made to look different?
Psychiatrist
Lewis Terman
Quantitative
Conservation
18. Self-aware - recognized - defined
Lewis Terman
Self-concept
The cloth monkey
Mendel
19. Believed each person had an idea of a 'perfect person' and tried to work towards being like that person as much as possible - believing that people needed to become 'fully functioning' individuals
Old-old
Carl Rogers
Conception
Pituitary gland
20. Where nursing care is given meant to maximize the quality of life for someone who is dying
Create and release chemicals into the blood
Parasympathetic
Hospice
Operant conditioning
21. States that infants need to form at least one strong attachment such as to a parent - in order to develop normally
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22. Biological theories of aging: the number of cells that have problems or mutations that increase w/ age
Genetic Mutation
Experimental group and control group
A census
Baby Albert
23. What is the name for depth perception cues made with both eyes?
Binocular cues
Proximodistal
Gestures
6-12
24. 1 -2 -2 -2 -3 -3 -5 -8 -9 -9. What is the mode?
90%
Pituitary gland
Homophobia
2
25. What is the conception alternative where fertilization of the egg is done outside the body - and then transferred back into the body?
Phonemes
Psychoanalytical
Sterilization
In vitro fertilization
26. What is a fertilized ovum or egg?
Preoperational stage (ages 3-6)
Zygote
Permissive
3-7
27. What is the term for the death of a child under one year - for no apparent reason?
Longitudinal Study
They can be coached into learning a type of test--do better or worse - etc.
Sudden Infant Death Syndrome
True
28. 1 + 5 + 6. What is the mean?
Safety
Cerebrum
4
Sublimation
29. What is the simple type of learning for getting used to something?
Skin appearance - 'age spots' - hair
Corpus callosum
Habituation
Allow the skull's plates of bone to shift or flex - making childbirth easier.
30. A number between +1 and -1 that measures the strength between two variables
Correlation coefficient
Self-efficacy
Corpus callosum
Absolute threshold
31. Parenting styles: makes few demands - hardly ever punishes
Encoding the information - represnting the information - and retrieving information from memory.
Permissive
First trimester
Denial
32. What is the variable that the experiment is trying to test?
The more accurate the result
Natural observation
1) Gather info - 2) Generate hypothesis - 3) Test hypothesis - 4) Revise
Dependent variable
33. What do doctors agree is the best way to feed babies?
Adolescent
Breast-feeding
Teratology
Mental health
34. Why are IQ scores only accurate for short periods of time?
Genes
It measures a child against their peers - in that moment
Wilhelm Wundt
Assimilation
35. Why does a gamete have a half set of chromosomes?
Adolescent Egocentrism
Six months
Kleinfelter Syndrome; male
You need two - one from each parent - to conceive.
36. Failure to thrive is caused by:
Emotional neglect
Denial
Random assignment
They were not scientifically performed
37. What regulates internal temperature - eating - sleeping - drinking - emotions - and sexual activity?
Gender
Stage 1
Hypothalamus
Authoritative
38. The variable in which the researcher has direct control over
Independent variable
Inner ear
Family practitioner
Preschooler
39. What is the main difference between classical and operant conditioning?
Classical conditioning works more to explain reflexive or unconscious reactions - Operant conditioning works to explain elective actions and reactions
Have more bland personalities and often difficult for them to create and maintain intimate relationships as they have a lack of emotional depth
Encoding the information - represnting the information - and retrieving information from memory.
Timbre
40. An environment where children live and attend school
Peer group
50%
Cephalocaudal and Proximodistal
Create and release chemicals into the blood
41. Who believed that the unconscious motivates our actions - through the id - ego - and superego?
5
Biological; Behavioral; Cognitive; Humanistic; Psychoanalytical; Structuralism; Functionalism; Nature vs. Nurture
Freud
23 pairs
42. The scientific study of words and sentences
1 & 2
Semantics
12+
Adolescent
43. First development of language; pre-speech
Sudden Infant Death Syndrome
RU-486
Cornea and lens
Cooing
44. What is: an M.D. who specializes in OB-GYN?
...
Sympathetic nervous system
Obstetrician-gynecologist
Stillbirth
45. What is another name for a newborn?
Left hand - left eye - and simple comprehension
Neonate
The brain/the cerebral cortex
Zone of Proximal Development
46. A term used to describe something similar in structure or organization
Qualitative
Dura mater
Gender conservation
Accommodation
47. What is: the theory to investigate the elements or 'structures' of the mind; classify structures and focus on conscious thought
Raymond Cattell
Gender
Structuralism
Preconventional - conventional - postconventional
48. What gland releases hormones that regulate hormone secretions of other glands?
Women - men
Pituitary gland
Reaction Formation
Six or seven months
49. Level 2 of Kohlberg's Theory of Moral Development includes which stages
They were not scientifically performed
3 & 4
Stage 3
Pons
50. Which lobe is related to voluntary muscles and intelligence?
Rh positive
Frontal lobe
Sexual orientation
Jean Piaget