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DSST Lifespan Developmental Psychology
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1. What is the name for the two halves of the brain?
Cerebrum
Young-old
Middle childhood
Organ of corti
2. What do endocrine glands do?
Erik Erikson
Emotional neglect
Survey
Create and release chemicals into the blood
3. Stages that a person goes through when they find out they have an incurable disease or find out they are going to die
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4. What most-extreme fate does syphillis often cause in infants?
Wear-and-Tear Theory
Miscarriages or stillbirths
Selective attention
Alzheimer's Disease
5. What is the drug to cause an abortion in the first 9 weeks of pregnancy?
Cesarean birth
Sympathetic nervous system
More Knowledgeable Other (MKO)
RU-486
6. Which stage of development is: Intimacy vs. Isolation? (emotional ties with others)
Young Adult
Egocentrism
None!!
Adolescent Egocentrism
7. Where are genes carried?
4-9
Visual cliff
On chromosomes
Set high standards - assist along the way
8. 1 + 5 + 6. What is the mean?
Bisexual
4
Nature vs. nurture
Double blind
9. What is the method in which a variable and constant are use to test theories?
Experimental research
Gerontology
Classification
Naturalistic observation
10. What is: the study of substances which are harmful to prenatal development?
Contraception
Dependent variable
Teratology
William James
11. Fourth stage in the Kubler-Ross's Stages of Dying: 'There's nothing I can do about this'
Parasympathetic
B.F. Skinner
Preparatory Depression
Condom
12. What is: structures in the cerebral cortex related to memory and emotion?
Authoritative
Limbic system
Cross-modal perception
Fetal death
13. 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
Closure
6
Consciousness
14. What is the medical means to terminate a pregnancy?
Put babies on their backs to sleep - and not have anything extra (toys - pillows etc) in the bed or crib.
School-age Child
Abortion
Closure
15. What is a sometimes-fatal disease occuring from the excessive use of tampons - or leaving a diaphragm in - for longer than prescribed time?
Psychological Tests
Spermicides
Acceptance
Toxic shock syndrome
16. In children babbling begins around age _____ - while in deaf infants babbling usually begins around several months later
Pituitary gland
2
Six or seven months
Endocrine system
17. Also called learning theory - based on the principle of observing and correcting behavior
A census
Obstetrician-gynecologist - family practitioner - or midwife
Behaviorism
Obstetrician-gynecologist
18. The larger the sample:
Egocentric behavior
Explicit role instruction
John Bowlby's Attachment Theory
The more accurate the result
19. Why is autism rare in children for the first 2 1/2 years?
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20. Why did studies used by Piaget and Freud lead to wrong conclusions?
Psychological maltreatment
They were not scientifically performed
Correlation coefficient
Timbre
21. A medical doctor with a degree who specializes in psychotherapy - who can prescribe drugs
Psychiatrist
Depth perception
They were not scientifically performed
Thalamus
22. 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
Biological; Behavioral; Cognitive; Humanistic; Psychoanalytical; Structuralism; Functionalism; Nature vs. Nurture
Hypokinetic diseases
Holophrase syntax
Gradually through shaping
23. Types of child play in chronological order:
Dura mater
Maslow
Suppression
Unoccupied behavior - onlooker - solitary independent (plays alone) - parallel play (plays around but not w/ others) - associative - cooperative play
24. What is: your feelings and reactions
All drugs - including over the counter - aspirin - coffee
Iris
Perception
Emotional health
25. What is the method to find the amount that one variable changes in relation to another?
The posterior (back) fontanel: within two months of birth. The anterior (front) fontanel: by the child's 2nd birthday.
If the mom and child have different blood types - the mom's cells can attack the baby.
Correlational research
Rh positive
26. What gland releases hormones that regulate hormone secretions of other glands?
Osteoporosis
Oral contraceptives
Pituitary gland
Ferdinand Lamaze
27. Which stage of development is: Autonomy vs. Shame and Doubt (making their own decisions)
Gender
Sympathetic - parasympathetic - and enteric
Epinephrine and norepinephrine
Toddler
28. What is the perception characteristic that: you don't have to think about it for it to happen?
3 & 4
Contraception
Automatic
Kohlberg
29. Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs consists of which steps?
Self-actualization - Esteem needs - Belonging and love - Safety - Physical needs
90%
The posterior (back) fontanel: within two months of birth. The anterior (front) fontanel: by the child's 2nd birthday.
Resilient child
30. What are the five areas of Apgar Rating - with scores of 0-2 in each?
Appearance - pulse - grimace (reflex) - activity - and respiration
Inner ear
Automatic - selective - contextual - and creative
Francis Bacon--16th century
31. What is the main symptom of hyperactivity?
Family practitioner
Gestures
Amniocentesis
Short attention span
32. What is being able to reproduce knowledge from memory?
Recall
Self-actualization
Object permanence
Not fully developed; but can distinguish color - track movement - and bright objects.
33. What is the method of surgical delivery?
Autoimmune Theory
Psychoanalytical
Cesarean birth
1 in 14 -000
34. What houses memories and controls our responses to different sensory signals?
The cerebrum
Unoccupied behavior - onlooker - solitary independent (plays alone) - parallel play (plays around but not w/ others) - associative - cooperative play
B.F. Skinner
The Montessori Method
35. When one variable increase - another variable increases. We call this a what?
Reinforcer
Positive Correlation
Independent variable
Conception
36. When someone sees an incomplete form - they fill in the pieces and perceive it as it would be that way. What Gestalt principle is this an example of?
Closure
Prenatal development
Creative
Operant conditioning
37. What is another name for a sound wave's amplitude?
Biological; Behavioral; Cognitive; Humanistic; Psychoanalytical; Structuralism; Functionalism; Nature vs. Nurture
Allow the skull's plates of bone to shift or flex - making childbirth easier.
Experimental group and control group
Loudness
38. What is: the representation in the mind of a set of perceptions - ideas - and actions - which go together
Positive reinforcer
Schema
Dyslexia
Conservation
39. What is the chance of having a boy or girl - according to Mendel's experiments in genetics?
Rubella
A will
Bandura
50%
40. Stages of friendship: intimate
Stage 2
Outer ear
9-15
Peer group
41. What is: the theory centered on studying how the mind is involved in knowing - learning - remembering - thinking; study how the mind relates to behavior
Elaboration
Abortion
Parallel play
Cognitive
42. A type of research done inside of a lab - selected to monitor specific biological changes in individuals by using expensive and sophisticated machinery
Sterilization
Closure
Laboratory observation
Irritability - social responsiveness - and activity level
43. What is the main difference between classical and operant conditioning?
Recall
Rationalization
Classical conditioning works more to explain reflexive or unconscious reactions - Operant conditioning works to explain elective actions and reactions
Object permanence
44. Observing someone's behavior and basing our own behavior on it
Organ of corti
Modeling
Sterilization
Attention Deficit Disorder and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
45. Second step in Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs
Safety
Classical conditioning works more to explain reflexive or unconscious reactions - Operant conditioning works to explain elective actions and reactions
Androgynous
Epinephrine and norepinephrine
46. What is: psychological definition for having more equal personality characteristics between male&female?
John Watson
Gestalt psychology
Stage 4
Androgynous
47. What kind of childbirth did Dr. Grantly Dick Read start teaching?
Natural prepared childbirth
Pavlov; classical conditioning
RU-486
Divergent thinking
48. What side of the N/N debate means that all children are first good; believe it is the way they are brought up that affects personality and actions?
Laboratory observation
Behaviorism
Id
Nurture
49. What is: areas of the body which - when touched - lead to sexual arousal?
The meanlinkk of utterance (how long their sentences are)
Developmental norm
Erogenous zones
Down syndrome
50. What is the most extreme outcome of a woman drinking during her pregnancy?
Rite of Passage
Dyslexia
Erik Erikson
Fetal death