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DSST Lifespan Developmental Psychology
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1. What is: a person's attraction to other people?
Middle-old
Adolescent Egocentrism
Response extinction
Sexual orientation
2. What is the term for low IQ and mental age of about 4 years old?
Mentally retarded
Fluid intelligence
Ageism
Cerebral cortex
3. The larger the sample:
Pons
Mode
Strong correlation
The more accurate the result
4. What is: the representation in the mind of a set of perceptions - ideas - and actions - which go together
All drugs - including over the counter - aspirin - coffee
Holophrase syntax
Autoimmune Theory
Schema
5. Who taught women breathing procedures to get through childbirth - including panting?
Ethics
Rubella
Carl Rogers
Ferdinand Lamaze
6. Gilligan believed that ________ conflicted between self and other - while ________ conflicted between self and justice
Women - men
90%
Neonate
Opens and closes to let the correct amount of light in
7. A reinforcer that comes from within the individual--something emotional.
Intrinsic reinforcer
Middle-old
Gender identity
Perception
8. What syndrome is characterized by small stature - poor coordination - hyperactive - learning disabilities - mental retardation - or large head?
Sampling
Cross-modal perception
Fetal Alcohol Syndrome
Gender role stereotypes
9. What is: irrelevant stimuli that compete for our attention (like traffic)
Id - Ego - Super Ego
Noise
Hypothalamus
6-12
10. What is the term for fraternal twins?
Dizygotic twins
Middle childhood
Three percent
Parietal lobe
11. Aside from learning disabilities - what physical problem do Kleinfelter people have?
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12. What is: the process by which a person takes material into their mind from the environment - which may mean changing sensory evidence to make it fit?
Valid
Assimilation
Automatic
Cephalocaudal and Proximodistal
13. What is the name for the two halves of the brain?
Infertility
Sympathetic - parasympathetic - and enteric
Cerebrum
Down syndrome
14. The smallest unit of a word which has meaning - may be bound or free
Autoimmune Theory
The skull - dura mater membrane - arachnoid layer - and pia mater.
Morphemes
Creative
15. What is the term for lack of responsiveness to other people?
Organ of corti
Autism
Conception
Adolescent Egocentrism
16. Who conducted a longitudinal study of smart kids - resulting that they become happy adults?
Rubella
Pupil
Best friend
Lewis Terman
17. Not physical abuse but when the child feels rejected or feels failure
Psychological maltreatment
Median
Ivan Pavlov
Daydreaming
18. Who coined the Theory of Moral Development?
Kohlberg
Super Ego
Psychiatrist
Attention Deficit Disorder and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
19. What gland releases hormones that regulate hormone secretions of other glands?
Iris
Erik Erikson
Pituitary gland
Toxic shock syndrome
20. What is: the fluid filled structure in the inner ear that looks like a snail?
Cochlea
A will
Cross-modal perception
More Knowledgeable Other (MKO)
21. What percentage of children are affected by hyperactivity?
Emotional neglect
Three percent
Rods
5 & 6
22. Jean Piaget extensively used which research method to study children?
Classification
Corpus callosum
Natural observation
Watching their parents
23. Who created structuralism?
They can be coached into learning a type of test--do better or worse - etc.
1 & 2
Wilhelm Wundt
Middle ear
24. What is: the difference made to one's mind by the process of assimilation?
Hospice
Accommodation
Telegraphic speech
Mostly developed by the time of birth
25. What is the variable that the experimenter controls?
Cognitive theorist
Chomsky
6
Independent variable
26. Which receptor is used for color vision?
RU-486
Classification
Cones
Fluid intelligence
27. What is a common learning disability in reading?
Dyslexia
Lewis Terman
Hour of love
Sublimation
28. What is the middle number in a set of data called?
Infants were placed on a solid - opaque surface - and the mothers were placed at the end of the table - where the opaque ended and glass begun. The infants didn't want to cross the glass because they could see the distance between themselves and the
Median
Cornea
Critical period
29. If you are A positive blood - what is that in terms of Rh factor?
23 pairs
4-9
Rh positive
Oral contraceptives
30. When does language development begin?
Intestate
Six months
Permissive
Phonemes
31. Who argued that classical conditioning explains some behaviors - but operant conditioning plays a much larger role?
3 & 4
B.F. Skinner
Super Ego
Cross Sectional Study
32. Individual sounds w/ in a word
Safety
Class inclusion
Mean
Phonemes
33. Infants develop a secure attachment when parents pay attention to and respond to a child's needs. What theory includes this statement?
Psychoanalytic theory
Anger (Emotion)
Babbling
Bias
34. A chronic condition that deteriorates the nerve fibers in the brain controlling memory - speech - and personality. Early symptoms including personality changes - lack of interest in activities - and change in sleep patterns.
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35. What is the study done to show that infants have depth perception?
Stage 2
Visual cliff
Psychological maltreatment
Subject
36. Defense mechanism: reverting to old behavior to avoid feelings
Convergent thinking
Down syndrome
Regression
Base of the skull; size of a pea
37. What two diseases - when caught early in the pregnancy - are most dangerous to the fetus?
Syphillis and rubella
Pavlov; classical conditioning
Closure
Gradually through shaping
38. What is the factor that always stays the same?
Constant
Family practitioner
Allow the skull's plates of bone to shift or flex - making childbirth easier.
Stage 6
39. Second step in Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs
Hypokinetic diseases
Experimental research
Safety
Psychological Tests
40. What is the simple type of learning for getting used to something?
Habituation
3-7
Heterosexual
Rubella
41. Visible signs of aging include:
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42. What is a specific period in development when a certain event has the greatest impact? (For example - a certain period of time when a young bird can learn to fly)
Critical period
Temporal lobe
Acceptance
Selective
43. First element to Vygotsky's theory: what does social interaction facilitate?
Down syndrome
Cephalocaudal and Proximodistal
Pituitary gland
Cognitive improvement
44. What is the transparent part in the front of the eye?
Autism
Lens
IUD
School-age Child
45. Gifted children often hide gifts to ______.
Diaphragm
3-7
Sympathetic - parasympathetic - and enteric
Fit in
46. There are usually two groups in an experiment - titled:
First trimester
Gender
Experimental group and control group
Longitudinal fissure
47. What is: the method to prevent an egg and sperm from being able to access each other?
Contraception
First trimester
Oral contraceptives
Teratology
48. All other variables w/in an experiment that researchers do not have control over
Increase
Family practitioner
Occipital - temporal - frontal - and parietal.
Dependent variable
49. What percent of children in kindergarten are immunized?
Median
99%
Sudden Infant Death Syndrome
True
50. Categories of old age: 85+
Qualitative
Kohlberg
Nature vs. nurture
Old-old
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