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DSST Lifespan Developmental Psychology

Subjects : dsst, psychology
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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. What is: your thoughts about what gives life purpose--the meaning of life - religion






2. What is: a person's attraction to other people?






3. In a child - can be expressed as 'nobody likes me'






4. Also called learning theory - based on the principle of observing and correcting behavior






5. What is a disease also called German measles?






6. Which receptor is used for color vision?






7. 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






8. What is the name of the largest commissure?






9. Why is autism rare in children for the first 2 1/2 years?


10. 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)






11. What two things make up the central nervous system?






12. What are the 8 psychological approaches?






13. Level 1 of Kohlberg's Theory of Moral Development includes which stages






14. Pavlovs famous classical conditioning dog experiment.






15. What is the term for lack of responsiveness to other people?






16. What is the white part of the eye that protects and manages the shape of the eye?






17. 1 + 5 + 6. What is the mean?






18. What are the four areas of taste that taste-buds recognize?






19. What is: growth from the center (spine) outward - where vital organs form before the extremities?






20. Stages that a person goes through when they find out they have an incurable disease or find out they are going to die


21. Who believed that the unconscious motivates our actions - through the id - ego - and superego?






22. Something used to make a behavior less likely to occur - can be positive or negative






23. Which thought process is a creative process?






24. The number which occurs the most often






25. Observing someone's behavior and basing our own behavior on it






26. Second stage in the Kubler-Ross's Stages of Dying: 'This is unfair. Why me?'






27. What is: when the mother consumes alcohol while her babies are in the womb?






28. Self-aware - recognized - defined






29. 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.






30. Third development of language






31. A communication style in which single words are used to communicate - typical of toddlers learning to speak - for example 'give' or 'mama'. The meaning is still understood even though complete sentences are not used






32. When does language development begin?






33. What is: the representation in the mind of a set of perceptions - ideas - and actions - which go together






34. The most direct measure of syntax in middle childhood is what?






35. What is: a mix of gender identity - gender roles - and orientation; recognition of ourselves as sexual beings.






36. What is the method to find the amount that one variable changes in relation to another?






37. The ethical component of the personality and provides the moral standards by which the ego operates






38. What is: the theory focused on the individual's unconscious motivations?






39. The smallest unit of a word which has meaning - may be bound or free






40. What do doctors agree is the best way to feed babies?






41. Stage in which whether you will be punished or not determines what is moral or not - also called the punishment and obiedience phase






42. What is caused by one extra chromosome in the number 21?






43. What is: the ability to group objects together on the basis of common features?






44. What is: the fluid filled structure in the inner ear that looks like a snail?






45. All other variables w/in an experiment that researchers do not have control over






46. Who created the first scientific psychology laboratory?






47. Who founded the Hierarchy of Needs theory?






48. Which lobe is related to vision?






49. Gilligan believed that ________ conflicted between self and other - while ________ conflicted between self and justice






50. What is: attraction to the opposite sex?