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DSST Lifespan Developmental Psychology
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Experiment where researchers made a baby afraid of rats through classical conditioning
Suppression
Baby Albert
Left hand - left eye - and simple comprehension
Middle-age Adult
2. Infants develop a secure attachment when parents pay attention to and respond to a child's needs. What theory includes this statement?
Irritability - social responsiveness - and activity level
Psychoanalytic theory
Binocular cues
It measures a child against their peers - in that moment
3. Who coined the Theory of Moral Development?
Babbling
Occipital lobe
Kohlberg
Condom
4. 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.
Set high standards - assist along the way
Cephalocaudal
Parallel play
Through actions - doing what you believe is correct
5. Which of these diseases can cause miscarriage - stillbirth - heart defects - deafness - and other problems?
Depo-Provera
Cones
12+
Rubella
6. Final stage in the Kubler-Ross's Stages of Dying: 'I'm ready'
Kubler-Ross's Stages of Dying
Acceptance
Rods
Peer group
7. 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
Operant conditioning
Rh positive
Carl Rogers
Osteoporosis
8. What is the term for identical twins?
Monozygotic twins
Virginia Apgar - or Apgar Rating
Bell would ring - then feed the dogs - Dogs would salivate when given food - Over time dogs began to salivate simply at ring of bell
Experimental group and control group
9. A disorder where the bones are weakened and become porous - like a sponge
Sexual orientation
Osteoporosis
Erik Erikson
Intestate
10. Who thought of the mind as a stream of consciousness--a flow of emotions - sensations and thoughts?
10
William James
True
Correlational research
11. How is ADHD diagnosed?
Up to 6 months of observation by doctors
Cornea
Sweet - bitter - salty - sour
Cross-modal perception
12. What thought process is supported by the example that: infants are given an object to hold - and then can recognize by sight the object.
Cross-modal perception
Neonate
Vygotsky
Egocentric behavior
13. Cultural bias not generally known across all subcultures
Parietal lobe
Psychometrics
Stimulus generalization
Slowed growth - body/face malfunctions - nervous system disorders - mental retardation.
14. A set of cases of people randomly chosen from a large group to represent that large group
Correlational research
Independent variable
Sampling
Dependent variable
15. Failure to thrive is caused by:
Adrenal glands
1) Gather info - 2) Generate hypothesis - 3) Test hypothesis - 4) Revise
Emotional neglect
More Knowledgeable Other (MKO)
16. Method that teaches children to realized their full potential.
Ferdinand Lamaze
Independent variable
The Montessori Method
Mental health
17. What syndrome is characterized by small stature - poor coordination - hyperactive - learning disabilities - mental retardation - or large head?
Fetal Alcohol Syndrome
Self-report data
Rationalization
The penis doesn't grow and breasts may develop.
18. What is: T-shaped device implanted in uterus by a physician for five to ten years at a time?
IUD
A census
Sigmund Freud
Kohlberg
19. Contains the psychic content related to the primitive instincts of the body - notably sex and aggression - functioning entirely according to the pleasure-pain principle - seeking either immediate fulfillment or settling for a compromise fulfillment
Skin appearance - 'age spots' - hair
Id
Preparatory Depression
Consciousness
20. 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)
Critical period
Adrenal glands
Vestibular sense
Subject
21. What are the four characteristics of perception?
Cerebrum
Automatic - selective - contextual - and creative
Cerebral anoxia
Kleinfelter Syndrome; male
22. Not physical abuse but when the child feels rejected or feels failure
Psychological maltreatment
Cognitive improvement
Visual cliff
6-12
23. A person who uses ______ has a stated position - but also acknowledges that it may change over time.
Short attention span
Dialectical perspective
Hippocampus
Family situation - the world around you - lifespan - and maturity.
24. Aside from learning disabilities - what physical problem do Kleinfelter people have?
25. What is: the theory centered on behavior; see person as blank slate upon which impressions of experiences can be recorded.
Lens
Content validity
Behavioral
Cornea
26. What is: the type of thought related to numerical and intellectual puzzles--with both quick & creative responses?
Cellular Theory
Fluid intelligence
Authoritarian
Divergent thinkers
27. If you are A positive blood - what is that in terms of Rh factor?
Rh positive
Iris
Norplant
Kubler-Ross's Stages of Dying
28. Observing someone's behavior and basing our own behavior on it
Endocrine system
Cerebral palsy
Midwife
Modeling
29. What are: general term for the reproductive organs in a male or female?
Monozygotic twins
Gonads
Cerebellum
Cellular Theory
30. Who argued that if psychology was a true science - then psychologists should only study what they could see and measure (behaviorist theory)?
Placebo effect
True
Cerebrospinal fluid
John Watson
31. What is the medical term for birth of a dead baby?
Stillbirth
Extrinsic reinforcer
Habituation
Gradually through shaping
32. Who taught women breathing procedures to get through childbirth - including panting?
Ferdinand Lamaze
Appearance - pulse - grimace (reflex) - activity - and respiration
Amniocentesis
Median
33. Jean Piaget extensively used which research method to study children?
The cloth monkey
Natural observation
Gender
Auditory System
34. What is: located in the limbic system - with primary function to store memories?
Hippocampus
50%
Biological
Heterosexual
35. Something used to make a behavior less likely to occur - can be positive or negative
The brain stem
Punishment
As soon as the bell was rung
Median
36. What sends commands to all other parts of the body?
Best friend
Dyscalcula
Autoerotic behavior
The brain stem
37. What two things make up the central nervous system?
Obstetrician-gynecologist - family practitioner - or midwife
99%
Thalamus
Brain and spinal cord
38. A morpheme that can be a word on its own
Alzheimer's Disease
John Watson
Free morpheme
Nature vs. nurture
39. What percentage of children are affected by hyperactivity?
Fetal Alcohol Syndrome
Three percent
Hollow phrases
Hour of love
40. Which protective brain layer is the strongest and thickest?
Conception
Epinephrine and norepinephrine
Dura mater
Infants were placed on a solid - opaque surface - and the mothers were placed at the end of the table - where the opaque ended and glass begun. The infants didn't want to cross the glass because they could see the distance between themselves and the
41. Time at which most children begin to speak actual words
10-14 months
Preconventional Morality
Half (23)
Amniocentesis
42. The number which occurs the most often
50%
Phonemes
Old Age
Mode
43. How can parents avoid down syndrome in their children?
Classical conditioning
Sexual identity
Anger (Emotion)
Conceive at younger ages
44. What houses memories and controls our responses to different sensory signals?
Sterilization
Norplant
The cerebrum
Gender role stereotypes
45. What is the part of the ear that includes the pinna and external auditory canal?
Five
Adolescent
Selective
Outer ear
46. How many PAIRS of chromosomes do body cells have?
Perception
23 pairs
Young Adult
50%
47. Applied when a test measures something more than one facet
Content validity
Object permanence
Survey
Middle ear
48. Defense mechanism: Turning a feeling into the exact opposite feeling
Quantitative
Cochlea
Reaction Formation
Bandura
49. Those who are mentally retarded are least likely to also have WHAT condition?
Stage 5
Three
Modeling
Cerebral palsy
50. What is: the realization that objects stay the same even when they are made to look different?
Long labors or birth complications
Conservation
Pons
Selera