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DSST Lifespan Developmental Psychology
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1. What is: the understanding of more advanced classification; that some sets are also sub-sets of a larger class?
Raymond Cattell
Through actions - doing what you believe is correct
Short attention span
Class inclusion
2. Where a group of people live together and the children of all the people are raised by one or two people
Negative Correlation
Ethics
Kibbutz
Bias
3. A type of research done inside of a lab - selected to monitor specific biological changes in individuals by using expensive and sophisticated machinery
Behaviorism
Survey
Celibacy
Laboratory observation
4. If a test measures what is meant to measure it is considered what?
Valid
Punishment
Mostly developed by the time of birth
Cognitive theorist
5. What is: long lasting contraceptive where six capsules are injected in a woman's arm?
Regression
Stillbirth
Genes
Norplant
6. What is the term for the death of a child under one year - for no apparent reason?
Sudden Infant Death Syndrome
Have more bland personalities and often difficult for them to create and maintain intimate relationships as they have a lack of emotional depth
Mental health
Jean Piaget
7. What is the chance of a baby having PKU?
Selera
Infertility
1 in 14 -000
Punishment
8. What are: drugs taken within three days to prevent pregnancy from instances such as no protection - or a broken condom?
Emergency contraception
Bandura
On chromosomes
Mean
9. What do children in early language development not understand?
Experimental research
You need two - one from each parent - to conceive.
Figurative language
Hollow phrases
10. What are the four characteristics of perception?
Sigmund Freud
Automatic - selective - contextual - and creative
Phenylketonuria (PKU)
Reinforcer
11. First stage in the Kubler-Ross's Stages of Dying: 'This could never happen to me. This must be a mistake'
Cornea
Stage 1
More Knowledgeable Other (MKO)
Denial (Shock)
12. What regulates internal temperature - eating - sleeping - drinking - emotions - and sexual activity?
Behavioral
Monocular cues
Pupil
Hypothalamus
13. Who introduced the scientific method?
Selective
Dependent variable
Francis Bacon--16th century
On chromosomes
14. What syndrome happens when a woman smokes while pregnant?
Daydreaming
Fetal tobacco syndrome
Thalamus
Fluid intelligence and crystal intelligence
15. Categories of old age: 85+
Old-old
Emotional neglect
4-9
Maslow
16. True or False: Kohlberg believed that you go through each step of moral development one @ a time and could not skip them.
Monozygotic twins
Not fully developed; but can distinguish color - track movement - and bright objects.
Cornea and lens
True
17. Means that the participants must know the content of the experiment and be warned of any risk or harm
Experimental research
Informed consent
Self-esteem
Social development or social cognition
18. What kind of childbirth did Dr. Grantly Dick Read start teaching?
Gender role stereotypes
Natural prepared childbirth
Opens and closes to let the correct amount of light in
A census
19. What is: sheath of thin latex designed to catch sperm upon ejaculation?
Condom
Denial (Shock)
Six months
Cross-modal perception
20. What is: the theory based on biology; belief that behavior and personality are linked to genetics
Lewis Terman
Biological
School-age Child
The more accurate the result
21. Did a longitudinal study that showed that smart kids are happy adults
Autoerotic behavior
Appearance - pulse - grimace (reflex) - activity - and respiration
Lewis Terman
Kibbutz
22. Anything which makes a behavior more likely to occur
Closure
Psychometrics
Reinforcer
They can be coached into learning a type of test--do better or worse - etc.
23. Usually has a doctoral degree in psychology plus an internship; cannot prescribe medicine.
Content validity
Gestalt psychology
Jean Piaget
Clinical psychologist
24. What is the term for fraternal twins?
Alzheimer's Disease
Set high standards - assist along the way
Dizygotic twins
Heterosexual
25. What is: attraction to the same sex?
Homosexual
Operant conditioning
Conception
Convergent thinking
26. The most direct measure of syntax in middle childhood is what?
Old-old
Celibacy
The meanlinkk of utterance (how long their sentences are)
Gene
27. Which part of the ANS is the arousing part of the system?
Contraception
Hurried-child
Old Age
Sympathetic nervous system
28. When do children develop object permanence?
Six or seven months
Humanistic Theorists
Injections
Around age two
29. Which stage of development is: Intimacy vs. Isolation? (emotional ties with others)
Young Adult
Preschooler
Genes
Figurative language
30. What are the factors that influence psychosocial health?
Family situation - the world around you - lifespan - and maturity.
Harry Harlow
The posterior (back) fontanel: within two months of birth. The anterior (front) fontanel: by the child's 2nd birthday.
Depo-Provera
31. How was the visual cliff study conducted?
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32. The average of a data set
Mean
Cerebrospinal fluid
Miscarriages or stillbirths
1) Gather info - 2) Generate hypothesis - 3) Test hypothesis - 4) Revise
33. What is: dynamic blend of our experiences - heredity - environment - etc. which determines how we react to problems/issues?
23 pairs
Deferred imitation
Because at birth cells aren't well connected (lacking in myelin - or nerve insulation)
Personality
34. First element to Vygotsky's theory: what does social interaction facilitate?
Cognitive improvement
Ferdinand Lamaze
Neonate
Depo-Provera
35. What is: a child (especially preschool age) doesn't take into consideration other people's needs--their perceptions are limited to their own point of view
Selective
Egocentric behavior
Corpus callosum
Cut in half
36. 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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37. What is: the process of working something out in your head; shows the difference between young children (act and try things out) and older (can do things in their heads)
Operation
Olfactory epithelium
Pia mater
Habituation
38. Disagreed w/ Kohlberg's Theory of Moral Development because his subjects were mainly male
Teratology
Projection
Telegraphic speech
Gilligan
39. Extension of 'actions speak louder than words' in behavior; follow others' examples despite their words.
The brain stem
Cephalocaudal
Social learning theory
Iris
40. Defense mechanism: you deny your feelings and come up with ways to justify your behavior
Rubella
Rationalization
Operant conditioning
B.F. Skinner
41. A link between a stimulus and a response in which a person or animal associates or substitutes a neutral stimulus with the actual stimulus
Classical conditioning
Lens
Timbre
Stage
42. What are the three things to monitor - to measure temperament in infants?
Babbling
Psychiatrist
Id
Irritability - social responsiveness - and activity level
43. What is: method of contraception by having no direct contact with partner's genitals?
Laboratory observation
Abstinence
Survey
Spiritual health
44. Who coined the Theory of Moral Development?
In vitro fertilization
Kohlberg
Personality
RU-486
45. How much alcohol is the safe amount to consume during pregnancy?
Regression
Preconventional Morality
Hurried-child
None!!
46. What is being able to reproduce knowledge from memory?
Reciprocal determinism
Mainstreaming
Virginia Apgar - or Apgar Rating
Recall
47. What is: when the mother consumes alcohol while her babies are in the womb?
Dizygotic twins
Sexually transmitted diseases
Personality
Fetal alcohol syndrome
48. The negative effects of sensory deprivation (not as much attention) are more likely to _______ w/ the length of the stage.
Increase
Divergent thinkers
Skin appearance - 'age spots' - hair
Vestibular sense
49. Level 3 of Kohlberg's Theory of Moral Development includes which stages
Because at birth cells aren't well connected (lacking in myelin - or nerve insulation)
Extrinsic reinforcer
Operant Conditioning
5 & 6
50. A baby repeating what you just said
Rh positive
6-12
Brain and spinal cord
Echolalia