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DSST Lifespan Developmental Psychology
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1. Believing women followed a different progression than men - she called the moral progression of the woman what?
Hour of love
Morality of Care
Dependent variable
Class inclusion
2. 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
Lens
Positive Correlation
Esteem needs
Mental age/Chronological age - x 100
3. Who believed that children's thinking doesn't develop smoothly - but instead certain points where it 'takes off' and transitions into new areas?
Cerebellum
The cloth monkey
Three
Jean Piaget
4. Which protective brain layer is mostly blood vessels?
Mean
John Bowlby's Attachment Theory
Pia mater
Strong correlation
5. What determines physical traits and is inherited from one or both parents?
Hurried-child
Gene
Middle childhood
The Premack Principle
6. A disorder where the bones are weakened and become porous - like a sponge
Gender roles
Cellular Theory
Vygotsky
Osteoporosis
7. What is: the theory focused on the individual's unconscious motivations?
Gradually through shaping
Opens and closes to let the correct amount of light in
Psychoanalytical
Self-actualization
8. What is: structures in the cerebral cortex related to memory and emotion?
5 & 6
Fetal death
Limbic system
Autonomic Nervous System
9. What is: the number of full wavelengths that pass through a point in a given amount of time
Self-efficacy
Frequency
Freud
Babbling
10. What part of the central nervous system controls all necessary functions of the body?
Increase
The brain
Fontanels
Around age two
11. Second element: The presence of someone who knows more in an area - like a parent - teacher - coach - etc.?
Occipital - temporal - frontal - and parietal.
More Knowledgeable Other (MKO)
Sigmund Freud
Object permanence
12. What is: the tone color or perceptual quality of a sound?
Spermicides
Timbre
Classical conditioning
William James
13. Which protective brain layer is the strongest and thickest?
Preschooler
Stimulus generalization
Proximodistal
Dura mater
14. What is the white part of the eye that protects and manages the shape of the eye?
1 in 14 -000
Elaboration
Sterilization
Selera
15. What percent of children in kindergarten are immunized?
99%
Figurative language
Preoperational stage (ages 3-6)
Independent variable
16. How does the pupil work?
Mental health
Automatic
Cerebellum
Opens and closes to let the correct amount of light in
17. What is: the way the brain organizes and gives meaning to information provided by the senses?
Perception
The skull - dura mater membrane - arachnoid layer - and pia mater.
Gene
Frequency
18. A reinforcer that is physical (tangible) or from the environment - like payment for work - or a prize
Stage 2
Extrinsic reinforcer
Dialectical perspective
More Knowledgeable Other (MKO)
19. Who first coined self-efficacy?
Bandura
Operant Conditioning
Sterilization
Cut in half
20. Biological theories of aging: as our bodies age - our immune systems become less effective at fighting disease - stress - etc.
Pia mater
Spiritual - emotional - mental - and social health
Autoimmune Theory
Pupil
21. What is: your thoughts about what gives life purpose--the meaning of life - religion
Psychometrics
Spiritual health
5 & 6
Teratology
22. What is another name for a sound wave's amplitude?
Classical conditioning
Loudness
Valid
As soon as the bell was rung
23. What is the term for lack of responsiveness to other people?
2
Autism
Creative
Six or seven months
24. Extension of 'actions speak louder than words' in behavior; follow others' examples despite their words.
Social learning theory
Maslow
Dialectical perspective
First trimester
25. Putting disabled students w/ normal students
Amniocentesis
Sexually transmitted diseases
Mainstreaming
Permissive
26. A morpheme that must be w/ a word
Stage 3
Neonate
Bound morpheme
Cephalocaudal
27. What is: dynamic blend of our experiences - heredity - environment - etc. which determines how we react to problems/issues?
Autonomic Nervous System
Egocentrism
Long labors or birth complications
Personality
28. What is the term for the death of a child under one year - for no apparent reason?
Syphillis and rubella
Breast-feeding
In vitro fertilization
Sudden Infant Death Syndrome
29. Applied when a test measures something more than one facet
Content validity
Chomsky
Autonomic Nervous System
Amniocentesis
30. Stage in which a person abides by the law because they think that law is a higher order; laws cannot be broken under any circumstance; social-order-maintaining orientation
Preconventional - conventional - postconventional
Stage 4
Pituitary gland
B.F. Skinner
31. What is: a permanent facility control done through surgical procedures?
Epinephrine and norepinephrine
Half (23)
Sterilization
Adolescent Egocentrism
32. What is: the theory focused on 'how' of behavior; minds are a continuous flow of information about experiences - and role is to study the mind/behavior as they adapt to the environment
Hippocampus
Alternative - or artificial - insemination
The meanlinkk of utterance (how long their sentences are)
Functionalism
33. Time at which most children begin to speak actual words
Personality
Natural prepared childbirth
10-14 months
Middle childhood
34. The process of unassociating the condition with the response
Extinction
Operant conditioning
Raymond Cattell
Divergent thinking
35. 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.
Parallel play
Dura mater
Recognition
Adrenal glands
36. Who created structuralism?
Set high standards - assist along the way
Six months
Wilhelm Wundt
Reinforcer
37. List the levels (in order) of Kohlberg's Theory of Moral Development
Preconventional - conventional - postconventional
Gestures
Cephalocaudal and Proximodistal
Stage 1
38. When do children develop object permanence?
Erik Erikson
Fontanels
Visual cliff
Around age two
39. What is the term for low IQ and mental age of about 4 years old?
6-12
Closure
Mentally retarded
3 & 4
40. When people w/in an experiment are assigned to a group randomly
Cognitive
Reaction Formation
Excitement - plateau - orgasm - and resolution phases
Random assignment
41. What is: growth from the center (spine) outward - where vital organs form before the extremities?
Proximodistal
Old-old
Parasympathetic
Bell would ring - then feed the dogs - Dogs would salivate when given food - Over time dogs began to salivate simply at ring of bell
42. Something used to make a behavior less likely to occur - can be positive or negative
Experimental research
Punishment
3
Infant
43. How much are the eyes developed in newborns?
Response extinction
The cloth monkey
Not fully developed; but can distinguish color - track movement - and bright objects.
Mental health
44. What system is made up of the hypothalamus and other glands?
Francis Bacon--16th century
Six months
Endocrine system
Five
45. Method that teaches children to realized their full potential.
Cerebellum
B.F. Skinner
The Montessori Method
Inner ear
46. What are: the harmful substances to a developing fetus?
Kubler-Ross's Stages of Dying
Outer ear
Teratogens
6
47. A method of modifying behavior - by ignoring the behavior so you don't have the response
Assimilation
Raymond Cattell
Longitudinal Study
Response extinction
48. What are the four components of psychosocial health?
Spiritual - emotional - mental - and social health
Women - men
Subject
Perception
49. Categories of old age: 85+
Old-old
Equilibrium
Long labors or birth complications
Behavioral
50. Defined as diseases which are either related to or caused by a sedentary lifestyle - in other words - caused by the lack of regular exercise or activity
Hypokinetic diseases
12+
Preparatory Depression
Diaphragm