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DSST Lifespan Developmental Psychology
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1. What is: the theory based on biology; belief that behavior and personality are linked to genetics
Gestures
Biological
Babbling
Operant conditioning
2. An environment where children live and attend school
As they age
Peer group
Mental age/Chronological age - x 100
Personality
3. Usually has a doctoral degree in psychology plus an internship; cannot prescribe medicine.
Clinical psychologist
Cognitive
Homophobia
Left hand - left eye - and simple comprehension
4. What is a common learning disability in reading?
Dyslexia
Family practitioner
The cloth monkey
Create and release chemicals into the blood
5. Cultural bias not generally known across all subcultures
The right hand - right eye - and speech
Cornea and lens
Psychometrics
No
6. A disorder where the bones are weakened and become porous - like a sponge
Echolalia
Osteoporosis
Kohlberg
Proximodistal
7. What disorder causes a person to have difficulty concentration - be easily distracted - or constantly in motion?
ADHD
Prenatal development
IUD
Abortion
8. Chomsky believed that the ability to develop language skills was inherited in ______.
Genes
5
Retina
Autoimmune Theory
9. What is the ring of muscles that makes up the colored part of the eye?
Family therapy
1) Gather info - 2) Generate hypothesis - 3) Test hypothesis - 4) Revise
Consciousness
Iris
10. What is: focusing attention on a small amount of information?
Selective attention
Ferdinand Lamaze
1 & 2
Psychoanalytical
11. Where is the pituitary gland located - and how big is it?
Bargaining
Base of the skull; size of a pea
Modeling
Old-old
12. Those who are mentally retarded are least likely to also have WHAT condition?
Erik Erikson
Vygotsky
Thalamus
Cerebral palsy
13. Second step in Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs
The right hand - right eye - and speech
Independent variable
Safety
Zone of Proximal Development
14. 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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15. Rang the bell each time he fed the dog; eventually how early did the dogs start salivating?
As soon as the bell was rung
Miscarriages or stillbirths
Three percent
Classical conditioning works more to explain reflexive or unconscious reactions - Operant conditioning works to explain elective actions and reactions
16. What are the five areas of Apgar Rating - with scores of 0-2 in each?
Homophobia
Stillbirth
Negative Correlation
Appearance - pulse - grimace (reflex) - activity - and respiration
17. What is the thought process that considers an idea or belief (thesis) and acknowledges the idea's opposite (antithesis)?
Dialectical perspective
Equilibrium
Emotional neglect
Carl Rogers
18. What purpose do fontanels have?
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19. Self-esteem begins forming in:
Middle childhood
Best friend
Three
Spiritual health
20. What is: attraction to the same sex?
You need two - one from each parent - to conceive.
Homosexual
Unoccupied behavior - onlooker - solitary independent (plays alone) - parallel play (plays around but not w/ others) - associative - cooperative play
Convergent thinking
21. What gland releases hormones that regulate hormone secretions of other glands?
6-12
Ivan Pavlov
Pituitary gland
Figurative language
22. What is: your interactions with others in social situations
Experimental research
Social health
Self-concept
Schema
23. Third step in Maslow's Hierarchy of needs in which you may want to meet needs of belongings and love through relationships
Belonging and love
The penis doesn't grow and breasts may develop.
Self-report data
4
24. Observing someone's behavior and basing our own behavior on it
Biological
The meanlinkk of utterance (how long their sentences are)
Ferdinand Lamaze
Modeling
25. What is: term for how much someone values and respects themselves?
John Bowlby's Attachment Theory
Young-old
Self-esteem
Oral contraceptives
26. How is extinction best achieved?
Gradually through shaping
Depth perception
Kleinfelter Syndrome; male
The cloth monkey
27. What are: chemicals designed to kill sperm?
Rite of Passage
Spermicides
Mostly developed by the time of birth
Left hand - left eye - and simple comprehension
28. A test that gives information about a participant including standardized tests such as aptitude - interest - and personality tests
Genetic Mutation
Psychological Tests
Esteem needs
Gene
29. What are: drugs taken within three days to prevent pregnancy from instances such as no protection - or a broken condom?
Abortion
Three percent
10-14 months
Emergency contraception
30. Which thought process is a creative process?
Pavlov; classical conditioning
Divergent thinking
Stage 1
Fluid intelligence and crystal intelligence
31. Biological theories of aging: like everything else in the world - the human body wears out
Survey
Psychometrics
Assimilation
Wear-and-Tear Theory
32. The repetition of certain syllables
Babbling
Inner ear
Semantics
Psychoanalytical
33. Fourth stage in the Kubler-Ross's Stages of Dying: 'There's nothing I can do about this'
Preparatory Depression
Informed consent
Drugs - diseases (like HIV - rubella) - and pollutants (mercury - radiation - etc)
Olfactory epithelium
34. What is: when a child can't be conceived via the usual method?
Infertility
Auditory System
Breast-feeding
Extrinsic reinforcer
35. Children learn and form their conscience and thoughts of what is acceptable behavior from what?
Watching their parents
Absolute threshold
Cones
Down syndrome
36. Self-aware - recognized - defined
Self-concept
Short attention span
Cross Sectional Study
In vitro fertilization
37. Believed each person had an idea of a 'perfect person' and tried to work towards being like that person as much as possible - believing that people needed to become 'fully functioning' individuals
Stage 1
Skin appearance - 'age spots' - hair
Alzheimer's Disease
Carl Rogers
38. Age at which children begin to share their toys and interact w/ one another - associative play
John Bowlby's Attachment Theory
Babbling
3
Cerebrospinal fluid
39. Stage in which whether you will be punished or not determines what is moral or not - also called the punishment and obiedience phase
Genetic Mutation
Chomsky
Stage 1
Punishment
40. Therapy that involves the whole family
Sweet - bitter - salty - sour
Middle ear
Bias
Family therapy
41. What two diseases - when caught early in the pregnancy - are most dangerous to the fetus?
Bound morpheme
Syphillis and rubella
Biological
Natural observation
42. What houses memories and controls our responses to different sensory signals?
Self-actualization - Esteem needs - Belonging and love - Safety - Physical needs
Have more bland personalities and often difficult for them to create and maintain intimate relationships as they have a lack of emotional depth
Modeling
The cerebrum
43. What is: areas of the body which - when touched - lead to sexual arousal?
Adolescent Egocentrism
Negative Correlation
Skin appearance - 'age spots' - hair
Erogenous zones
44. What is: the process by which a society identifies its expectations?
23 pairs
Amniocentesis
Vestibular sense
Socialization
45. Parenting styles: makes few demands - hardly ever punishes
You need two - one from each parent - to conceive.
Social development or social cognition
Preoperational stage (ages 3-6)
Permissive
46. A medical doctor with a degree who specializes in psychotherapy - who can prescribe drugs
Correlation coefficient
Constant
Hurried-child
Psychiatrist
47. What is the variable that the experiment is trying to test?
Vestibular sense
IUD
Dependent variable
Conceive at younger ages
48. What is: attraction to the opposite sex?
Heterosexual
Authoritative
Critical period
Gender conservation
49. What is the main difference between classical and operant conditioning?
Classical conditioning works more to explain reflexive or unconscious reactions - Operant conditioning works to explain elective actions and reactions
Cones
Baby Albert
Projection
50. What does the left half of the brain control?
The right hand - right eye - and speech
Gestures
Old Age
Toxic shock syndrome