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DSST Lifespan Developmental Psychology
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. Which stage of development is: Intimacy vs. Isolation? (emotional ties with others)
Pupil
Preconventional - conventional - postconventional
Wilhelm Wundt
Young Adult
2. When one variable increase - another variable increases. We call this a what?
Positive Correlation
Recognition
3
Accommodation
3. What is the variable that the experiment is trying to test?
Dependent variable
Lewis Terman
The infant wants to be in proximity of the person who cares for them as a form of self-preservation. If a child feels that their caregiver is nearby and attentive - they feel confident to explore their surroundings. If not - they feel anxious and ove
Autoimmune Theory
4. Applied when a test measures something more than one facet
Obstetrician-gynecologist - family practitioner - or midwife
Content validity
Rh positive
John Watson
5. An environment where children live and attend school
3
Peer group
Social health
Spermicides
6. Third element: There is a gap between what the child can do with help - and what they can do on their own; shows when a child has finally learned it
The penis doesn't grow and breasts may develop.
B.F. Skinner
Thalamus
Zone of Proximal Development
7. What is: where the lens changes its curves to help the eye focus?
1) Gather info - 2) Generate hypothesis - 3) Test hypothesis - 4) Revise
John Watson
Accommodation
Schema
8. When people are followed and studied over a long period of time and checked up on at certain points
Assimilation
Longitudinal Study
Lens
Encoding the information - represnting the information - and retrieving information from memory.
9. Means that the participants must know the content of the experiment and be warned of any risk or harm
1) Gather info - 2) Generate hypothesis - 3) Test hypothesis - 4) Revise
Around age two
Sexually transmitted diseases
Informed consent
10. What is: sheath of thin latex designed to catch sperm upon ejaculation?
Egocentrism
Stage 6
In vitro fertilization
Condom
11. Who conducted a longitudinal study of smart kids - resulting that they become happy adults?
Independent variable
Lewis Terman
4
Mode
12. Children that are raised on the Kibbutz will often:
Have more bland personalities and often difficult for them to create and maintain intimate relationships as they have a lack of emotional depth
Cellular Theory
Habituation
Authoritative
13. What is: the understanding of more advanced classification; that some sets are also sub-sets of a larger class?
Class inclusion
5
Informed consent
The penis doesn't grow and breasts may develop.
14. The larger the sample:
2
The more accurate the result
Olfactory sense
Sexual identity
15. What kind of childbirth did Dr. Grantly Dick Read start teaching?
Lens
Natural prepared childbirth
Avoid punishment
Response extinction
16. A method of modifying behavior - by ignoring the behavior so you don't have the response
Response extinction
Bargaining
Reinforcer
Gentle birth
17. The distortion of the results
Dialectical perspective
Diaphragm
Parallel play
Bias
18. Child's realization their sex will stay the same
Up to 6 months of observation by doctors
The brain stem
Gender conservation
Toxic shock syndrome
19. Level 3 of Kohlberg's Theory of Moral Development includes which stages
Recall
A census
Bias
5 & 6
20. What is: when a sample is taken from the fluid in the amniotic sac - to be tested for diseases or genetic traits?
Prenatal development
Mental health
3 & 4
Amniocentesis
21. What is: your thoughts about what gives life purpose--the meaning of life - religion
Psychological maltreatment
Response extinction
Spiritual health
Random assignment
22. Observing someone's behavior and basing our own behavior on it
Modeling
Emotional health
Appearance - pulse - grimace (reflex) - activity - and respiration
Adolescent
23. Why is self-report data not as reliable as other research methods?
Young Adult
Convergent thinking
Physical needs
Subjects may be dishonest w/ their answers
24. When a participant starts to feel the effects of the drug but is actually taking a sugar pill or placebo
Correlation coefficient
Midwife
Placebo effect
Ivan Pavlov
25. Stages of friendship: autonomous - interdependent
Sympathetic nervous system
12+
Operation
Mental age/Chronological age - x 100
26. Which though process is follower thinking?
Gilligan
Convergent thinking
Socialization
Physical needs
27. 1 -2 -2 -2 -3 -3 -5 -8 -9 -9. What is the mode?
Middle-age Adult
Genetic Mutation
Ferdinand Lamaze
2
28. What is: the moment an ovum/egg is fertilized by sperm?
Conception
Psychological Tests
5 & 6
Regression
29. The final stage of Maslow's Hierarchy of needs. A stage you may never actually meet.
Abortion
Fluid intelligence and crystal intelligence
Independent variable
Self-actualization
30. What is the drug to cause an abortion in the first 9 weeks of pregnancy?
Old Age
RU-486
Phenylketonuria (PKU)
Conceive at younger ages
31. What are the three parts of memory?
Encoding the information - represnting the information - and retrieving information from memory.
Five
All drugs - including over the counter - aspirin - coffee
Gerontology
32. What coordinates all movements and muscles?
Regression
Stillbirth
Norplant
Cerebellum
33. 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
Timbre
Figurative language
Reinforcer
Stage 3
34. What is the characteristic that: you may be more interested in a person - rather than what she is saying?
Selective
Lewis Terman
Cerebellum
Preoperational stage (ages 3-6)
35. Cultural bias not generally known across all subcultures
Experimental group and control group
Psychometrics
Adolescent Egocentrism
Physical needs
36. Stage in which you see the right action as what satisfies your personal needs; a person becomes aware of two different viewpoints
Encoding the information - represnting the information - and retrieving information from memory.
Stage 2
Short attention span
Epinephrine and norepinephrine
37. Who believed that children's thinking doesn't develop smoothly - but instead certain points where it 'takes off' and transitions into new areas?
Divergent thinking
Longitudinal Study
Autonomic Nervous System
Jean Piaget
38. Self-aware - recognized - defined
Psychoanalytic theory
Olfactory epithelium
Self-concept
Free morpheme
39. How do you fix the problem of mother's cells attacking the baby's?
Injections
Negative reinforcer
9-15
Selera
40. What is: the ability to group objects together on the basis of common features?
Slowed growth - body/face malfunctions - nervous system disorders - mental retardation.
They can be coached into learning a type of test--do better or worse - etc.
Social development or social cognition
Classification
41. Children learn and form their conscience and thoughts of what is acceptable behavior from what?
Lewis Terman
Down syndrome
Watching their parents
If the mom and child have different blood types - the mom's cells can attack the baby.
42. Chomsky believed that the ability to develop language skills was inherited in ______.
Genes
Correlational research
Pavlov; classical conditioning
Sigmund Freud
43. The negative effects of sensory deprivation (not as much attention) are more likely to _______ w/ the length of the stage.
Increase
Cross Sectional Study
Selective
Bound morpheme
44. Defense mechanism: you deny your feelings and come up with ways to justify your behavior
Parasympathetic
Medicated delivery
Psychoanalytic theory
Rationalization
45. Believing women followed a different progression than men - she called the moral progression of the woman what?
Morphemes
Morality of Care
Double blind
Mendel
46. What is the method of surgical delivery?
Cesarean birth
Pia mater
Rubella
Pituitary gland
47. Stage in which a person abides by the law because they think that law is a higher order; laws cannot be broken under any circumstance; social-order-maintaining orientation
Stage 4
Sympathetic nervous system
Adrenal glands
Id
48. Categories of old age: 75-84
John Bowlby's Attachment Theory
Middle-old
Displacement
Obstetrician-gynecologist
49. Parenting styles: makes few demands - hardly ever punishes
Permissive
The more accurate the result
Intrinsic reinforcer
Stage 2
50. What are the four characteristics of perception?
Pituitary gland
Automatic - selective - contextual - and creative
Stillbirth
Cesarean birth