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DSST Lifespan Developmental Psychology
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1. Stage in which whether you will be punished or not determines what is moral or not - also called the punishment and obiedience phase
Sexually transmitted diseases
Stage 1
The skull - dura mater membrane - arachnoid layer - and pia mater.
Erik Erikson
2. What is: hatred and fear of homosexuals?
Id
Freud
Homophobia
Selera
3. What is: long lasting contraceptive where six capsules are injected in a woman's arm?
Dura mater
Norplant
Deferred imitation
Cross Sectional Study
4. Why is autism rare in children for the first 2 1/2 years?
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5. What kind of problem can it cause when a husband and wife have different blood types?
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6. What is: expression of your maleness or femaleness on a daily basis?
Longitudinal Study
Epinephrine and norepinephrine
Gender roles
William James
7. The awareness of being a male or female
Closure
Olfactory epithelium
Gender identity
...
8. If a mother catches rubella in first trimester - what is the chance that the fetus is affected?
Infertility
90%
Gerontology
Modeling
9. Recent research supports that children learn from listening to their parents talk to them in 'baby talk'; which aspect of language is this?
Timbre
Biological; Behavioral; Cognitive; Humanistic; Psychoanalytical; Structuralism; Functionalism; Nature vs. Nurture
Social aspect of language
Frontal lobe
10. What are the five areas of Apgar Rating - with scores of 0-2 in each?
Appearance - pulse - grimace (reflex) - activity - and respiration
Selective
William James
Old-old
11. What syndrome is characterized by small stature - poor coordination - hyperactive - learning disabilities - mental retardation - or large head?
Cerebrum
Sympathetic nervous system
Fetal Alcohol Syndrome
Stage 6
12. What is: your thoughts - beliefs - attitudes - and values
Cognitive theorist
Preconventional Morality
Mental health
Bisexual
13. Which stage of development is: Generativity vs. Stagnation? (giving to the next generation)
Middle-age Adult
Classical conditioning
Midwife
Opens and closes to let the correct amount of light in
14. 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?
Midwife
Suppression
John Bowlby's Attachment Theory
Chomsky
15. In the Harlow experiment: between the wire monkey+bottle - and cloth monkey+no bottle - which fake mother did the babies prefer?
The cloth monkey
Phonemes
Quantitative
Unoccupied behavior - onlooker - solitary independent (plays alone) - parallel play (plays around but not w/ others) - associative - cooperative play
16. What is: the theory focused on 'how' of behavior; minds are a continuous flow of information about experiences - and role is to study the mind/behavior as they adapt to the environment
Self-efficacy
Contextual
No
Functionalism
17. What are: vibrations in the air that we receive through the ear to be processed?
Habituation
Create and release chemicals into the blood
Sound waves
Family therapy
18. Who conducted a longitudinal study of smart kids - resulting that they become happy adults?
Cephalocaudal
Informed consent
Social health
Lewis Terman
19. Did a longitudinal study that showed that smart kids are happy adults
Lewis Terman
Stage 3
Cross-modal perception
Bias
20. 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
Psychological Tests
Behaviorism
Family therapy
Stage 3
21. Four steps of the scientific method include:
1) Gather info - 2) Generate hypothesis - 3) Test hypothesis - 4) Revise
Deferred imitation
Experimental research
Psychometrics
22. Babies are rewarded with food/attention with they say 'mama' etc - so they continue to say those words and learn new ones; what idea does this theory follow?
Phonemes
Dialectical perspective
Projection
Operant conditioning
23. Whatmakes a person able to see objects are they are - in 3 dimensions?
Base of the skull; size of a pea
Longitudinal fissure
Depth perception
Alternative - or artificial - insemination
24. Where nursing care is given meant to maximize the quality of life for someone who is dying
Hospice
Cephalocaudal
Natural prepared childbirth
1 in 14 -000
25. Experiment when none of the doctors - researchers - and participants know who is getting the real drug
Conservation
Double blind
Medicated delivery
Bound morpheme
26. A test that gives information about a participant including standardized tests such as aptitude - interest - and personality tests
Bound morpheme
IUD
Dura mater
Psychological Tests
27. Means that the participants must know the content of the experiment and be warned of any risk or harm
Infertility
Informed consent
Loudness
Mendel
28. What is the name for the awareness of external and internal events?
Cross-modal perception
Obstetrician-gynecologist - family practitioner - or midwife
Sweet - bitter - salty - sour
Consciousness
29. Who first coined self-efficacy?
Bandura
Miscarriages or stillbirths
Increase
Emergency contraception
30. What system is made up of the hypothalamus and other glands?
Contextual
Endocrine system
Social learning theory
RU-486
31. What are: general term for the reproductive organs in a male or female?
Pia mater
Reinforcer
Self-esteem
Gonads
32. Age at which children begin to share their toys and interact w/ one another - associative play
Bias
Alternative - or artificial - insemination
3
Occipital lobe
33. Who thought of the mind as a stream of consciousness--a flow of emotions - sensations and thoughts?
William James
4-9
Mental age/Chronological age - x 100
Semantics
34. Children that are raised on the Kibbutz are used to study the effects of what?
Drugs - diseases (like HIV - rubella) - and pollutants (mercury - radiation - etc)
Permissive
Multiple caretakers
Cerebral anoxia
35. What is the name for depth perception cues made with one eye?
Gene
99%
If the mom and child have different blood types - the mom's cells can attack the baby.
Monocular cues
36. What is: the gland that controls release of hormones from the gonads?
Occipital - temporal - frontal - and parietal.
Pituitary gland
Quantitative
It measures a child against their peers - in that moment
37. What is the variable that the experiment is trying to test?
Cerebrospinal fluid
Stimulus generalization
Dependent variable
Hour of love
38. 1 + 5 + 6. What is the mean?
Parasympathetic
4
Occipital - temporal - frontal - and parietal.
Erogenous zones
39. How is extinction best achieved?
3-7
Gradually through shaping
Correlation Research
Contraception
40. Level 1 of Kohlberg's Theory of Moral Development includes which stages
None!!
Babbling
Francis Bacon--16th century
1 & 2
41. Gifted children often hide gifts to ______.
Longitudinal fissure
Amplitude
Fit in
Obstetrician-gynecologist - family practitioner - or midwife
42. What is the drug to cause an abortion in the first 9 weeks of pregnancy?
Pituitary gland
Preconventional Morality
RU-486
Fontanels
43. We smell when airborne molecules of an odor reach tiny receptor cells in the top of the nasal cavity; what is the name of this receptor area?
Obstetrician-gynecologist - family practitioner - or midwife
Olfactory epithelium
B.F. Skinner
Cerebral cortex
44. There are usually two groups in an experiment - titled:
Experimental group and control group
On chromosomes
Hospice
Independent variable
45. Stages of friendship: autonomous - interdependent
Elaboration
Three percent
12+
Kohlberg
46. What is: the tone color or perceptual quality of a sound?
Timbre
Hypokinetic diseases
Cerebral cortex
Response extinction
47. One's wishes for the distribution of one's property and possessions after death
Organ of corti
A will
Safety
Bound morpheme
48. What is: a period in a child's development in which he/she is capable of understanding some things but not others
A will
5 & 6
Stage
Conservation
49. In a child - can be expressed as 'nobody likes me'
Alternative - or artificial - insemination
5 & 6
Childhood depression
William James
50. How do you fix the problem of mother's cells attacking the baby's?
Valid
Jean Piaget
Injections
Correlation coefficient