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DSST Lifespan Developmental Psychology
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1. What is: when a child can't be conceived via the usual method?
Freud
Selective attention
Infertility
Negative reinforcer
2. Why does a gamete have a half set of chromosomes?
Cochlea
Cephalocaudal
You need two - one from each parent - to conceive.
As soon as the bell was rung
3. One's wishes for the distribution of one's property and possessions after death
Cooing
Increase
Holophrase syntax
A will
4. What is: when the mother consumes alcohol while her babies are in the womb?
You need two - one from each parent - to conceive.
Schema
Fetal alcohol syndrome
Watching their parents
5. Categories of old age: 85+
Midwife
Intrinsic reinforcer
Conception
Old-old
6. What is caused by one extra chromosome in the number 21?
Fluid intelligence
Infertility
Erik Erikson
Down syndrome
7. Defense mechanism: a type of displacement - a redirection of the feeling into a socially productive activity
Divergent thinkers
Sublimation
The skull - dura mater membrane - arachnoid layer - and pia mater.
Zygote
8. Parenting styles: 'because I say so'--more prevalent in lower-class families
Morality of Care
Authoritarian
Social health
On chromosomes
9. Which stage of development is: Intimacy vs. Isolation? (emotional ties with others)
Young Adult
Hollow phrases
Belonging and love
Stimulus generalization
10. What most-extreme fate does syphillis often cause in infants?
Gonads
Drugs - diseases (like HIV - rubella) - and pollutants (mercury - radiation - etc)
Miscarriages or stillbirths
Median
11. Individual sounds w/ in a word
Subject
Phonemes
10-14 months
Selective attention
12. What is: a state of mental balance - reconciling new experiences with new understanding
Rubella
Autoerotic behavior
Family therapy
Equilibrium
13. What is the ability to identify correctly something encountered before?
Toddler
Recognition
Placebo effect
The skull - dura mater membrane - arachnoid layer - and pia mater.
14. What are the four characteristics of perception?
Automatic - selective - contextual - and creative
In vitro fertilization
Hollow phrases
Olfactory sense
15. The integrator between the outer and inner worlds - as well as the id and the superego. Gives continuity and consistency to behavior by providing a personal point of reference - which relates to the events of the past and actions of the present and o
Ego
Morality of Justice
Extrinsic reinforcer
Experimental research
16. Who coined the Theory of Moral Development?
Stage 1
Dialectical perspective
A will
Kohlberg
17. Extension of 'actions speak louder than words' in behavior; follow others' examples despite their words.
Erogenous zones
Psychoanalytic theory
Social learning theory
RU-486
18. Used to show links between people - events - actions - behaviors - etc. while not determining the caus - rather is linked to statistics
Correlation Research
Spiritual - emotional - mental - and social health
Fit in
Abortion
19. In a case study - a single individual called a _____ is intensely studied
Subject
Self-actualization - Esteem needs - Belonging and love - Safety - Physical needs
Autoimmune Theory
Nature
20. Why is self-report data not as reliable as other research methods?
Subjects may be dishonest w/ their answers
Recall
Denial (Shock)
Safety
21. The variable in which the researcher has direct control over
Ferdinand Lamaze
Invincibility fable
Middle childhood
Independent variable
22. What is the part of the ear that includes the pinna and external auditory canal?
Rods
Physical needs
Outer ear
John Watson
23. Which stage of development is: Trust vs. Mistrust?
Five
...
Infant
Cross Sectional Study
24. What thought process characterizes creative - gifted - or advanced children?
Divergent thinkers
Rationalization
Pons
Clinical psychologist
25. What do children in early language development not understand?
Recall
Independent variable
Amplitude
Figurative language
26. What is: relating new information to something familiar
Sympathetic - parasympathetic - and enteric
Elaboration
Social learning theory
Young Adult
27. What is: term for how much someone values and respects themselves?
Long labors or birth complications
Excitement - plateau - orgasm - and resolution phases
Chomsky
Self-esteem
28. What is the very critical period of the first 3 months in the womb?
Zone of Proximal Development
Prenatal development
Alzheimer's Disease
Pituitary gland
29. 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
Convergent thinking
Zone of Proximal Development
Five
Depo-Provera
30. Cultural bias not generally known across all subcultures
Psychometrics
Informed consent
Puberty
Cognitive improvement
31. When one variable increases while another variable decreases. We call this a what?
As soon as the bell was rung
Nurture
Opens and closes to let the correct amount of light in
Negative Correlation
32. Parenting styles: makes few demands - hardly ever punishes
Thalamus
Loudness
Permissive
Conception
33. 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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34. 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
Alzheimer's Disease
Hypokinetic diseases
Neonate
Selective
35. Experiment when none of the doctors - researchers - and participants know who is getting the real drug
Outer ear
Double blind
They can be coached into learning a type of test--do better or worse - etc.
Timbre
36. What is the method in which a variable and constant are use to test theories?
Cephalocaudal
Preschooler
Spiritual health
Experimental research
37. Something used to make a behavior less likely to occur - can be positive or negative
Oral contraceptives
Punishment
Hypokinetic diseases
Functionalism
38. The most direct measure of syntax in middle childhood is what?
Morality of Justice
Clinical psychologist
The meanlinkk of utterance (how long their sentences are)
Gerontology
39. Not physical abuse but when the child feels rejected or feels failure
Psychological maltreatment
Figurative language
Consciousness
Cephalocaudal
40. Putting disabled students w/ normal students
Attention Deficit Disorder and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
Mainstreaming
Intrinsic reinforcer
Syphillis and rubella
41. What is: psychological definition for having more equal personality characteristics between male&female?
Sterilization
Explicit role instruction
Androgynous
Negative Correlation
42. What is a fertilized ovum or egg?
Ethics
Zygote
Experimental group and control group
Biological; Behavioral; Cognitive; Humanistic; Psychoanalytical; Structuralism; Functionalism; Nature vs. Nurture
43. What is: not being involved in a sexual relationship?
Intestate
Dialectical perspective
4
Celibacy
44. Which stage of development is: Initiative vs. Guilt? (trying different roles)
Preschooler
Toddler
Freud
Mental age/Chronological age - x 100
45. When can a person's short term memory become incapacitated?
As they age
6-12
Harry Harlow
Personality
46. What is the sense that gives information about balance and body movement? (if your body is moving - tilting - etc.)
Parallel play
Zygote
Cerebral cortex
Vestibular sense
47. A type of conditioning in which a person associates an action with a consequence
Operant Conditioning
Negative Correlation
Fontanels
The more accurate the result
48. When something from conditioning carries over to another related area; made baby Albert afraid of all furry animals - rather than just rats
The penis doesn't grow and breasts may develop.
Stimulus generalization
The Montessori Method
Classical conditioning works more to explain reflexive or unconscious reactions - Operant conditioning works to explain elective actions and reactions
49. Removing something unpleasant from a situation - to make a behavior more likely
Fluid intelligence
Put babies on their backs to sleep - and not have anything extra (toys - pillows etc) in the bed or crib.
Negative reinforcer
Operation
50. A reinforcer that is physical (tangible) or from the environment - like payment for work - or a prize
Extrinsic reinforcer
Full (46)
Positive Correlation
Parietal lobe