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DSST Lifespan Developmental Psychology
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Categories of old age: 75-84
Occipital - temporal - frontal - and parietal.
Middle-old
Negative Correlation
Classification
2. What is the term to describe the thinking part of health?
RU-486
Mental health
Echolalia
Genetic Mutation
3. 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)
Critical period
Excitement - plateau - orgasm - and resolution phases
3 & 4
Class inclusion
4. What is the most extreme outcome of a woman drinking during her pregnancy?
Stage 5
Old-old
Fetal death
Double blind
5. When one variable increases while another variable decreases. We call this a what?
The brain/the cerebral cortex
1 & 2
Negative Correlation
Genes
6. Gifted children often hide gifts to ______.
Fit in
Spermicides
Injections
Childhood depression
7. A child that is always in a hurry
Amplitude
Hurried-child
Cerebral palsy
Hippocampus
8. Disagreed w/ Kohlberg's Theory of Moral Development because his subjects were mainly male
Iris
Autism
Gilligan
The Premack Principle
9. What are: chemicals designed to kill sperm?
They can be coached into learning a type of test--do better or worse - etc.
Subject
Spermicides
Phenylketonuria (PKU)
10. Which lobe is related to voluntary muscles and intelligence?
The brain stem
Operant Conditioning
Adolescent
Frontal lobe
11. What is: generalizations about each gender - such as that men are aggressive and logical - and women are nurturing and emotional
Convergent thinking
Gender role stereotypes
Diaphragm
Cross Sectional Study
12. What percentage of children are affected by hyperactivity?
Three percent
Hurried-child
Response extinction
Qualitative
13. What two other chemicals do the adrenal glands secrete?
Epinephrine and norepinephrine
Because at birth cells aren't well connected (lacking in myelin - or nerve insulation)
Mean
Authoritative
14. What is: a progesterone shot given every three months?
Mode
Cerebral anoxia
Self-esteem
Depo-Provera
15. What is: expression of your maleness or femaleness on a daily basis?
Mental health
Adolescent Egocentrism
Gender roles
Injections
16. What is: psychological definition for having more equal personality characteristics between male&female?
Echolalia
10-14 months
Androgynous
Projection
17. What is the study done to show that infants have depth perception?
Raymond Cattell
Denial (Shock)
Visual cliff
John Watson
18. What is: term used to describe a person's belief that they can perform a task successfully?
Self-efficacy
All drugs - including over the counter - aspirin - coffee
6
Genes
19. Who argued that if psychology was a true science - then psychologists should only study what they could see and measure (behaviorist theory)?
Semantics
Autism
Proximodistal
John Watson
20. What fluid covers the brain - and is used to transport chemicals and regulate pressure?
Cerebrospinal fluid
Attention Deficit Disorder and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
Cerebral cortex
None!!
21. 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
4
Egocentric behavior
Psychiatrist
Phenylketonuria (PKU)
22. What is the part of the ear that includes the eardrum - anvil - and stirrup?
The posterior (back) fontanel: within two months of birth. The anterior (front) fontanel: by the child's 2nd birthday.
Double blind
Mentally retarded
Middle ear
23. What disorder causes a person to have difficulty concentration - be easily distracted - or constantly in motion?
ADHD
Amplitude
5
Middle-old
24. Where a group of people live together and the children of all the people are raised by one or two people
Kibbutz
A will
Kleinfelter Syndrome; male
Quantitative
25. What do endocrine glands do?
Create and release chemicals into the blood
Negative Correlation
Crystallized intelligence
Freud
26. Stages of friendship: one way assistance
Valid
4-9
Self-efficacy
Behavioral
27. What is: when a person or animal responds to a neutral stimulus with a meaningful one
It measures a child against their peers - in that moment
Classical conditioning
Mode
The meanlinkk of utterance (how long their sentences are)
28. What sends commands to all other parts of the body?
Oral contraceptives
The brain stem
If the mom and child have different blood types - the mom's cells can attack the baby.
Daydreaming
29. What are the two parts responsible for bending light and focusing it in the back of the eye?
Left hand - left eye - and simple comprehension
No
Cornea and lens
Francis Bacon--16th century
30. Stereotypes in genders; boys play with trucks and girls wear makeup - etc.
Amniocentesis
Best friend
Explicit role instruction
Cephalocaudal
31. Which protective brain layer is the strongest and thickest?
Survey
Osteoporosis
Dura mater
Equilibrium
32. What is being able to reproduce knowledge from memory?
Gender identity
Recall
All drugs - including over the counter - aspirin - coffee
Prenatal development
33. What is: a state of mental balance - reconciling new experiences with new understanding
Chomsky
Equilibrium
Classical conditioning
Super Ego
34. There are usually two groups in an experiment - titled:
Absolute threshold
Experimental group and control group
Hippocampus
You need two - one from each parent - to conceive.
35. Parenting styles: makes few demands - hardly ever punishes
Bisexual
Laboratory observation
A census
Permissive
36. What is the method in which a variable and constant are use to test theories?
Prenatal development
Emergency contraception
Negative Correlation
Experimental research
37. Which stage of development is: Industry vs. Inferiority? (working with others)
School-age Child
Proximodistal
Behavioral
Kohlberg
38. What is: a mix of gender identity - gender roles - and orientation; recognition of ourselves as sexual beings.
Kleinfelter Syndrome; male
Semantics
Sexual identity
Cephalocaudal and Proximodistal
39. What is: the process by which a society identifies its expectations?
Socialization
Sweet - bitter - salty - sour
Physical needs
Self-report data
40. Stage in which you do what is right in order to gain status or approval from other people or society; 'good boy-good girl' orientation
Preschooler
Stage 3
Heterosexual
All drugs - including over the counter - aspirin - coffee
41. What is: term for how much someone values and respects themselves?
Rubella
Self-esteem
Subjects may be dishonest w/ their answers
Norplant
42. What is: when a child can't be conceived via the usual method?
Operant Conditioning
Infertility
Fetal Alcohol Syndrome
Childhood depression
43. The number which occurs the most often
Operation
Accommodation
Mode
Hypothalamus
44. When does language development begin?
Six months
William James
Baby Albert
Ivan Pavlov
45. The awareness of being a male or female
Behaviorism
Gender identity
Cephalocaudal and Proximodistal
Kibbutz
46. First stage in the Kubler-Ross's Stages of Dying: 'This could never happen to me. This must be a mistake'
Denial (Shock)
Cognitive theorist
Gender
You need two - one from each parent - to conceive.
47. What are areas in a baby's skull where cartilage hasn't yet hardened into bone?
12+
Fontanels
Retina
Cross-modal perception
48. When people w/in an experiment are assigned to a group randomly
Biological; Behavioral; Cognitive; Humanistic; Psychoanalytical; Structuralism; Functionalism; Nature vs. Nurture
Subjects may be dishonest w/ their answers
Random assignment
Stillbirth
49. A reinforcer that is physical (tangible) or from the environment - like payment for work - or a prize
Sweet - bitter - salty - sour
Extrinsic reinforcer
Cornea and lens
Kleinfelter Syndrome; male
50. All senses report to the thalamus except for one--which?
Inner ear
Stillbirth
Smell
90%