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DSST Lifespan Developmental Psychology
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1. Why does a gamete have a half set of chromosomes?
Not fully developed; but can distinguish color - track movement - and bright objects.
Cross-modal perception
You need two - one from each parent - to conceive.
Classical conditioning works more to explain reflexive or unconscious reactions - Operant conditioning works to explain elective actions and reactions
2. What is a disease also called German measles?
Cornea
Rubella
Fetal death
Visual cliff
3. What is: where the lens changes its curves to help the eye focus?
Accommodation
23 pairs
Divergent thinkers
Authoritative
4. Which stage of development is: Autonomy vs. Shame and Doubt (making their own decisions)
Toddler
Parietal lobe
Subjects may be dishonest w/ their answers
Permissive
5. What is: areas of the body which - when touched - lead to sexual arousal?
Morality of Justice
Sublimation
Erogenous zones
A census
6. Defense mechanism: transferring your thoughts and feelings onto others
Projection
Gender conservation
Reinforcer
6-12
7. Self-aware - recognized - defined
Teratology
Ivan Pavlov
Self-concept
Egocentric behavior
8. 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
Heterosexual
Visual cliff
Abstinence
Carl Rogers
9. Where are genes carried?
On chromosomes
They can be coached into learning a type of test--do better or worse - etc.
Self-actualization
Obstetrician-gynecologist - family practitioner - or midwife
10. What is a learning disability in math - where concepts are learned one day and forgotten the next?
Divergent thinking
Dyscalcula
Intrinsic reinforcer
Nurture
11. Gilligan believed that ________ conflicted between self and other - while ________ conflicted between self and justice
Women - men
Commissures
Functionalism
Mainstreaming
12. Who did the experiment with baby monkeys about affection and love?
Harry Harlow
Preschooler
Injections
Sexual orientation
13. How much alcohol is the safe amount to consume during pregnancy?
Gene
None!!
You need two - one from each parent - to conceive.
Rite of Passage
14. When a researcher observes and studies subjects w/o interacting or interfering w/ them
First trimester
Naturalistic observation
Childhood depression
Occipital lobe
15. What percent of children in kindergarten are immunized?
Morality of Care
Lens
99%
The right hand - right eye - and speech
16. Fourth development of language
The brain
Bargaining
Avoid punishment
Telegraphic speech
17. Also called learning theory - based on the principle of observing and correcting behavior
Recognition
Behaviorism
Auditory System
Quantitative
18. Stages of friendship: Momentary playmates
3-7
Cerebellum
The cerebrum
Selera
19. Final stage in the Kubler-Ross's Stages of Dying: 'I'm ready'
Brain and spinal cord
Acceptance
Humanistic Theorists
Mentally retarded
20. There are usually two groups in an experiment - titled:
Experimental group and control group
Creative
Appearance - pulse - grimace (reflex) - activity - and respiration
Classical conditioning
21. What thought process is supported by the example that: infants are given an object to hold - and then can recognize by sight the object.
Self-actualization - Esteem needs - Belonging and love - Safety - Physical needs
Cross-modal perception
Stage 6
Lewis Terman
22. Extension of 'actions speak louder than words' in behavior; follow others' examples despite their words.
Contextual
Phenylketonuria (PKU)
Social learning theory
Super Ego
23. Biological theories of aging: like everything else in the world - the human body wears out
Pavlov; classical conditioning
3
Wear-and-Tear Theory
Celibacy
24. 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)
Elaboration
3 & 4
Critical period
Pupil
25. What are the four characteristics of perception?
Physical needs
Rubella
Automatic - selective - contextual - and creative
Cerebral cortex
26. What is: the difference made to one's mind by the process of assimilation?
Puberty
Longitudinal Study
Accommodation
Sampling
27. What is the perception characteristic that: if you have heard a movie is scary - you might be more inclined to get scared?
Class inclusion
Contextual
Cephalocaudal
Six months
28. Which part of the ANS is the arousing part of the system?
Pons
Sympathetic nervous system
Teratogens
Divergent thinking
29. How does the pupil work?
A will
Opens and closes to let the correct amount of light in
True
Iris
30. What system is made up of the hypothalamus and other glands?
Endocrine system
Dialectical perspective
Selective
The cerebrum
31. Where is the pituitary gland located - and how big is it?
Midwife
Longitudinal Study
Clinical psychologist
Base of the skull; size of a pea
32. What is: method of contraception by having no direct contact with partner's genitals?
Spermicides
Abstinence
Emotional neglect
Social learning theory
33. What is the name of the scientist known as the father of genetics and inheritance?
Sympathetic - parasympathetic - and enteric
Mendel
Watching their parents
Cephalocaudal
34. What is the name for minimum amount of something we can detect or sense?
As soon as the bell was rung
Absolute threshold
Experimental group and control group
Sudden Infant Death Syndrome
35. Experiment where researchers made a baby afraid of rats through classical conditioning
Esteem needs
10
Baby Albert
1) Gather info - 2) Generate hypothesis - 3) Test hypothesis - 4) Revise
36. Defense mechanism: a type of displacement - a redirection of the feeling into a socially productive activity
Sublimation
Cones
Cross-modal perception
10-14 months
37. What is: psychological definition for having more equal personality characteristics between male&female?
Epinephrine and norepinephrine
Androgynous
They were not scientifically performed
Sublimation
38. First development of language; pre-speech
Morphemes
Equilibrium
Cooing
Egocentric behavior
39. What 4 main problems do fetal alcohol syndrome cause?
John Watson
Slowed growth - body/face malfunctions - nervous system disorders - mental retardation.
Condom
Fontanels
40. When is anoxia a problem in births?
Long labors or birth complications
1 in 14 -000
Lens
Gender identity
41. The first experiment of classical conditioning was done by who?
Toddler
Multiple caretakers
Ivan Pavlov
Lewis Terman
42. A reinforcer that comes from within the individual--something emotional.
Dura mater
Occipital lobe
50%
Intrinsic reinforcer
43. What is the part in the back of the eye that includes receptors called rods and cones?
Cochlea
Clinical psychologist
Retina
1 in 14 -000
44. What is: long lasting contraceptive where six capsules are injected in a woman's arm?
Middle childhood
5 & 6
Freud
Norplant
45. What do endocrine glands do?
Create and release chemicals into the blood
Auditory System
Belonging and love
10-14 months
46. What is: a progesterone shot given every three months?
Experimental research
Depo-Provera
Deferred imitation
Automatic - selective - contextual - and creative
47. What is: when a person or animal responds to a neutral stimulus with a meaningful one
Experimental group and control group
1) Gather info - 2) Generate hypothesis - 3) Test hypothesis - 4) Revise
Classical conditioning
Drugs - diseases (like HIV - rubella) - and pollutants (mercury - radiation - etc)
48. Individual sounds w/ in a word
Sampling
Papillae
Gestures
Phonemes
49. The integrator between the outer and inner worlds - as well as the id and the superego. Gives continuity and consistency to behavior by providing a personal point of reference - which relates to the events of the past and actions of the present and o
Chomsky
3 & 4
The Montessori Method
Ego
50. Theory that every function in the child's cultural development appears twice: first between people - then inside the child.
Median
Laboratory observation
Social development or social cognition
Osteoporosis