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DSST Lifespan Developmental Psychology
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1. The awareness of being a male or female
Safety
Contextual
Ego
Gender identity
2. 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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3. Pavlovs famous classical conditioning dog experiment.
Echolalia
Critical period
Bell would ring - then feed the dogs - Dogs would salivate when given food - Over time dogs began to salivate simply at ring of bell
Five
4. A method of modifying behavior - by ignoring the behavior so you don't have the response
Response extinction
Francis Bacon--16th century
Down syndrome
Cross Sectional Study
5. Observing someone's behavior and basing our own behavior on it
Modeling
Emergency contraception
Laboratory observation
Rationalization
6. What syndrome happens when a woman smokes while pregnant?
Erik Erikson
Childhood depression
Reciprocal determinism
Fetal tobacco syndrome
7. How is IQ calculated?
Psychoanalytic theory
Mental age/Chronological age - x 100
Hour of love
On chromosomes
8. Who created the first scientific psychology laboratory?
Up to 6 months of observation by doctors
Wilhelm Wundt
Id
A will
9. What is: the period of sexual maturation?
Virginia Apgar - or Apgar Rating
Sexual orientation
Puberty
Cognitive theorist
10. A term used in research used to describe something measurable usually expressed as a number
3-7
The meanlinkk of utterance (how long their sentences are)
Quantitative
Mainstreaming
11. Who was the psychoanalyst who documented stages of emotional growth in regards to babies?
Stage 1
Mental health
Jean Piaget
Erik Erikson
12. The average of a data set
Qualitative
Strong correlation
1) Gather info - 2) Generate hypothesis - 3) Test hypothesis - 4) Revise
Mean
13. What purpose do fontanels have?
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14. Which of these diseases can cause miscarriage - stillbirth - heart defects - deafness - and other problems?
Stillbirth
Rubella
More Knowledgeable Other (MKO)
Parasympathetic
15. Age at which most children will identify specific 'best-friends'
Anger (Emotion)
Positive Correlation
Sound waves
10
16. What is the ability to identify correctly something encountered before?
Cognitive theorist
Recognition
The more accurate the result
Bell would ring - then feed the dogs - Dogs would salivate when given food - Over time dogs began to salivate simply at ring of bell
17. Also called learning theory - based on the principle of observing and correcting behavior
Behaviorism
Because at birth cells aren't well connected (lacking in myelin - or nerve insulation)
Cross Sectional Study
Gender identity
18. Removing something unpleasant from a situation - to make a behavior more likely
Injections
Syphillis and rubella
Jean Piaget
Negative reinforcer
19. Applied when a test measures something more than one facet
Content validity
Psychoanalytic theory
...
Opens and closes to let the correct amount of light in
20. What do physicians recommend to prevent SIDS?
Sexual identity
Norplant
Developmental norm
Put babies on their backs to sleep - and not have anything extra (toys - pillows etc) in the bed or crib.
21. Does a somatic (body) cell have a full - or half - set of chromosomes?
Habituation
Independent variable
Full (46)
Sympathetic nervous system
22. If a mother catches rubella in first trimester - what is the chance that the fetus is affected?
Auditory System
90%
Humanistic
Nurture
23. Which stage of development is: Autonomy vs. Shame and Doubt (making their own decisions)
As they age
Assimilation
Toddler
Inner ear
24. Which stage of development is: Intimacy vs. Isolation? (emotional ties with others)
Have more bland personalities and often difficult for them to create and maintain intimate relationships as they have a lack of emotional depth
Operant Conditioning
Young Adult
Childhood depression
25. A higher number of the correlation coefficient closer to the number one shows a:
Lens
Strong correlation
IUD
Ivan Pavlov
26. What is: method of contraception by having no direct contact with partner's genitals?
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
Positive Correlation
Abstinence
Hospice
27. What is: focusing attention on a small amount of information?
Commissures
Selective attention
Vygotsky
1) Gather info - 2) Generate hypothesis - 3) Test hypothesis - 4) Revise
28. What is: the belief that you are the center of the universe and everything revolves around you - and the inability to see the world as someone else does and adapt to it.
Fetal death
Cesarean birth
Psychoanalytical
Egocentrism
29. What is the method in which a variable and constant are use to test theories?
Dialectical perspective
Monocular cues
Freud
Experimental research
30. What are: general term for the reproductive organs in a male or female?
Preconventional - conventional - postconventional
Kubler-Ross's Stages of Dying
Depo-Provera
Gonads
31. What determines physical traits and is inherited from one or both parents?
Chomsky
Obstetrician-gynecologist - family practitioner - or midwife
Gene
Mostly developed by the time of birth
32. What are the different types of caregivers for pregnancy?
Drugs - diseases (like HIV - rubella) - and pollutants (mercury - radiation - etc)
Denial
Depo-Provera
Obstetrician-gynecologist - family practitioner - or midwife
33. What are the three things to monitor - to measure temperament in infants?
Kohlberg
Middle childhood
Brain and spinal cord
Irritability - social responsiveness - and activity level
34. Babies are rewarded with food/attention with they say 'mama' etc - so they continue to say those words and learn new ones; what idea does this theory follow?
Operant conditioning
Structuralism
Lewis Terman
All drugs - including over the counter - aspirin - coffee
35. Who thought of the mind as a stream of consciousness--a flow of emotions - sensations and thoughts?
Women - men
William James
Skin appearance - 'age spots' - hair
Emotional health
36. Child's realization their sex will stay the same
Stage
Autonomic Nervous System
Diaphragm
Gender conservation
37. What is: your interactions with others in social situations
Morality of Care
Social health
Organ of corti
Set high standards - assist along the way
38. What is the very critical period of the first 3 months in the womb?
Prenatal development
Vestibular sense
Dizygotic twins
Gerontology
39. Defense mechanism: a type of displacement - a redirection of the feeling into a socially productive activity
Cerebellum
Sublimation
Selective
Dialectical perspective
40. Jean Piaget extensively used which research method to study children?
Critical period
Natural observation
Morality of Justice
Qualitative
41. What is the name for the 'crack' in the middle of the brain halves?
Ethics
Kubler-Ross's Stages of Dying
Longitudinal fissure
The skull - dura mater membrane - arachnoid layer - and pia mater.
42. Defense mechanism: transferring your thoughts and feelings onto others
Cooing
Self-report data
Social development or social cognition
Projection
43. Who introduced the scientific method?
Cones
Mental health
Francis Bacon--16th century
1) Gather info - 2) Generate hypothesis - 3) Test hypothesis - 4) Revise
44. What is: attraction to both sexes?
Bisexual
Hippocampus
Free morpheme
Erogenous zones
45. What is: a progesterone shot given every three months?
Epinephrine and norepinephrine
Obstetrician-gynecologist - family practitioner - or midwife
Functionalism
Depo-Provera
46. What thought process is supported by the example that: infants are given an object to hold - and then can recognize by sight the object.
Cross-modal perception
Excitement - plateau - orgasm - and resolution phases
Conceive at younger ages
Stage 3
47. Parenting styles: respects individually - but tries to instill social values
Authoritative
Cellular Theory
Hollow phrases
Autoerotic behavior
48. Whatmakes a person able to see objects are they are - in 3 dimensions?
Cross Sectional Study
Selera
Depth perception
The more accurate the result
49. Defense mechanism: hiding the feelings and not acknowledging them
Cesarean birth
3 & 4
Physical needs
Suppression
50. Which stage of development is: Industry vs. Inferiority? (working with others)
Bound morpheme
School-age Child
Super Ego
Reinforcer
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