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DSST Lifespan Developmental Psychology

Subjects : dsst, psychology
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. What percent of children in kindergarten are immunized?






2. Deaf children will often be more proficient at communicating through _______ than do hearing infants - often being able to sign at ten months old






3. A system which uses operant conditioning to make less probable actions more likely to occur by using more probable actions as reinforcers






4. A type of research done inside of a lab - selected to monitor specific biological changes in individuals by using expensive and sophisticated machinery






5. What is a sometimes-fatal disease occuring from the excessive use of tampons - or leaving a diaphragm in - for longer than prescribed time?






6. Which receptor is used for color vision?






7. Applied when a test measures something more than one facet






8. Fourth step in Maslow's Hierarchy of needs in which you begin to think about you self-esteem and how you feel as a person






9. What glands affect the mood - energy level - and stress?






10. Theory that every function in the child's cultural development appears twice: first between people - then inside the child.






11. What is the name for depth perception cues made with both eyes?






12. What are the 8 psychological approaches?






13. What thought process is supported by the example that: infants are given an object to hold - and then can recognize by sight the object.






14. What system is made up of the hypothalamus and other glands?






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






16. Defense mechanism: reverting to old behavior to avoid feelings






17. Which lobe is related to body sensations?






18. What is: your sense of being a man or woman as defined by society?






19. Stage in which a person makes decisions according to his or her conscience; the universal ethical principal orientation; not many people ever reach this stage






20. What is: the process by which a society identifies its expectations?






21. 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






22. First development of language; pre-speech






23. Means that the participants must know the content of the experiment and be warned of any risk or harm






24. Pavlovs famous classical conditioning dog experiment.






25. If a test measures what is meant to measure it is considered what?






26. What is: term for how much someone values and respects themselves?






27. A morpheme that can be a word on its own






28. Self-aware - recognized - defined






29. How do you fix the problem of mother's cells attacking the baby's?






30. When can a person's short term memory become incapacitated?






31. Stages of friendship: one way assistance






32. What is: not being involved in a sexual relationship?






33. Who first coined self-efficacy?






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






35. Whatmakes a person able to see objects are they are - in 3 dimensions?






36. Which stage of development is: Intimacy vs. Isolation? (emotional ties with others)






37. What is the ability to identify correctly something encountered before?






38. What do endocrine glands do?






39. What is another name for a sound wave's amplitude?






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






41. What is: your interactions with others in social situations






42. What thought process characterizes creative - gifted - or advanced children?






43. Environment in which two (or more) children sit side by side - or near each other - and play without interacting with the other child or trying to influence them in any way. Most children engage in this type of enviornment.






44. Individual sounds w/ in a word






45. What is: a progesterone shot given every three months?






46. The number which occurs the most often






47. What is the ring of muscles that makes up the colored part of the eye?






48. Biological theories of aging: the number of cells that have problems or mutations that increase w/ age






49. Gifted children often hide gifts to ______.






50. A baby repeating what you just said