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DSST Lifespan Developmental Psychology

Subjects : dsst, psychology
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. What is the ability to identify correctly something encountered before?






2. What do physicians recommend to prevent SIDS?






3. Defense mechanism: Turning a feeling into the exact opposite feeling






4. Who made the first IQ test?






5. Self-aware - recognized - defined






6. Who was the psychoanalyst who documented stages of emotional growth in regards to babies?






7. Which part of the ANS is the calming part of the system?






8. What are: chemicals designed to kill sperm?






9. What is: the theory that all people are inherently good and motivated to achieve their full potential






10. What determines physical traits and is inherited from one or both parents?






11. Four steps of the scientific method include:






12. Experiment when none of the doctors - researchers - and participants know who is getting the real drug






13. Stage in which a person makes decisions according to his or her conscience; the universal ethical principal orientation; not many people ever reach this stage






14. What are the two parts responsible for bending light and focusing it in the back of the eye?






15. Who thought of the mind as a stream of consciousness--a flow of emotions - sensations and thoughts?






16. What is: the most developed - and largest (80%) - part of the brain?






17. Who founded the Hierarchy of Needs theory?






18. When a participant fills out a survey themselves about themselves






19. Which stage of development is: Ego Integrity vs. Despair? (what they have done with their life)






20. What regulates internal temperature - eating - sleeping - drinking - emotions - and sexual activity?






21. Did a longitudinal study that showed that smart kids are happy adults






22. Which though process is follower thinking?






23. What is the middle number in a set of data called?






24. What is the study done to show that infants have depth perception?






25. Third development of language






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






27. Children are most likely to achieve if parents:






28. Level 2 of Kohlberg's Theory of Moral Development includes which stages






29. True or False: Kohlberg believed that you go through each step of moral development one @ a time and could not skip them.






30. What are areas in a baby's skull where cartilage hasn't yet hardened into bone?






31. How is extinction best achieved?






32. What is the main symptom of hyperactivity?






33. People who are working that experience discrimination because of their age - whether too young or too old are victims of what?






34. Rogers and Maslow are both:






35. If you are A positive blood - what is that in terms of Rh factor?






36. What are the four characteristics of perception?






37. 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.






38. Theory that every function in the child's cultural development appears twice: first between people - then inside the child.






39. What is a fertilized ovum or egg?






40. What is the part of the ear that includes the eardrum - anvil - and stirrup?






41. Biological theories of aging: like everything else in the world - the human body wears out






42. A term used to describe something similar in structure or organization






43. What is: the debate between whether a child is born a bad seed--with whatever disposition/tastes/personality they were meant to have; or that a child is born good - with their upbringing affecting their later personality and actions.






44. What is the term for oxygen deficiency to the brain?






45. What is the name for the two halves of the brain?






46. Id - Ego - and Super Ego were all founded by who?






47. The distortion of the results






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






49. What are the three parts of memory?






50. Where nursing care is given meant to maximize the quality of life for someone who is dying