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DSST Lifespan Developmental Psychology

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1. How many different theories of language development are there?






2. What are: general term for the reproductive organs in a male or female?






3. The larger the sample:






4. Does a somatic (body) cell have a full - or half - set of chromosomes?






5. What is: the elated feeling adolescents have - that they are immune to risks - mortality and probability; false sense of security thinking they will never fall or get caught.






6. First stage in the Kubler-Ross's Stages of Dying: 'This could never happen to me. This must be a mistake'






7. What is the term for lack of responsiveness to other people?






8. When do the two fontanels harden?

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9. A lower number of the correlation coefficient - closer to the number zero shows a:






10. What is the name of the scientist known as the father of genetics and inheritance?






11. Self-aware - recognized - defined






12. Who developed the theory of social development?






13. Recent research supports that children learn from listening to their parents talk to them in 'baby talk'; which aspect of language is this?






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






15. Stage in which you see the right action as what satisfies your personal needs; a person becomes aware of two different viewpoints






16. Pavlovs famous classical conditioning dog experiment.






17. What is the enzyme deficiency that can cause mental retardation without treatment?






18. What is the method to find the amount that one variable changes in relation to another?






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






20. What is caused by one extra chromosome in the number 21?






21. How many PAIRS of chromosomes do body cells have?






22. Four steps of the scientific method include:






23. What is: generalizations about each gender - such as that men are aggressive and logical - and women are nurturing and emotional






24. Categories of old age: 85+






25. Who argued that if psychology was a true science - then psychologists should only study what they could see and measure (behaviorist theory)?






26. Theory by Bandura; the interaction of a person's personality - the environment - and the behavior.






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






28. A reinforcer that is physical (tangible) or from the environment - like payment for work - or a prize






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






30. What is: the way the brain organizes and gives meaning to information provided by the senses?






31. What do children in early language development not understand?






32. What is the main difference between classical and operant conditioning?






33. Which receptor is used for color vision?






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






35. According to both Kohlberg and Piaget - the most immature reason to do something is to:






36. What is: a progesterone shot given every three months?






37. Gilligan believed that Kholberg's theory described the male progression which she called the what?






38. Biological theories of aging: as our bodies age - our immune systems become less effective at fighting disease - stress - etc.






39. What is the variable that the experimenter controls?






40. What is: the understanding of more advanced classification; that some sets are also sub-sets of a larger class?






41. What most-extreme fate does syphillis often cause in infants?






42. Which lobe is related to hearing?






43. What is: another form of consciousness involving very little effort; dreaming while awake or letting the mind wander?






44. The variable in which the researcher has direct control over






45. The process of unassociating the condition with the response






46. What is: the part of the ear inside the cochlea; contains sensors that change energy into impulses to be decoded by the brain?






47. Whatmakes a person able to see objects are they are - in 3 dimensions?






48. What are: the harmful substances to a developing fetus?






49. Who created structuralism?






50. Theory that language abilities devlop innately; there must be some mechanism in the brain which aids in language acquisition; who came up with this theory?