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DSST Lifespan Developmental Psychology

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1. A higher number of the correlation coefficient closer to the number one shows a:
Strong correlation
Accommodation
Natural observation
Occipital lobe

2. What is: relating new information to something familiar
Denial
Reaction Formation
Elaboration
Slowed growth - body/face malfunctions - nervous system disorders - mental retardation.

3. What is: the moment an ovum/egg is fertilized by sperm?
Papillae
Conception
Conservation
Belonging and love

4. What is: growth from the head downward (head develops before rest of the body)?
Acceptance
Convergent thinking
Cephalocaudal
The more accurate the result

5. Who created structuralism?
Alternative - or artificial - insemination
Wilhelm Wundt
Adolescent Egocentrism
Condom

6. What is the conception alternative where semen is deposited into the body via a thin tube?
Papillae
Middle-old
Alternative - or artificial - insemination
Depo-Provera

7. What is the term for fraternal twins?
Harry Harlow
Mental age/Chronological age - x 100
Erogenous zones
Dizygotic twins

8. Parenting styles: makes few demands - hardly ever punishes
Permissive
Gene
Sympathetic - parasympathetic - and enteric
Conception

9. What is caused by one extra chromosome in the number 21?
Convergent thinking
Cross-modal perception
Down syndrome
Adrenal glands

10. What is: attraction to both sexes?
John Watson
Norplant
Humanistic
Bisexual

11. What is the rating system to judge a baby's functionality when first born?
1 & 2
All drugs - including over the counter - aspirin - coffee
Recall
Virginia Apgar - or Apgar Rating

12. There are usually two groups in an experiment - titled:
Negative Correlation
Conceive at younger ages
Experimental group and control group
Gender roles

13. What is: long lasting contraceptive where six capsules are injected in a woman's arm?
William James
Gender role stereotypes
Invincibility fable
Norplant

14. What is: the theory centered on behavior; see person as blank slate upon which impressions of experiences can be recorded.
Behavioral
Rite of Passage
Gestures
Fit in

15. How many PAIRS of chromosomes do body cells have?
Invincibility fable
23 pairs
12+
Mental health

16. What is: the realization that objects stay the same even when they are made to look different?
Operant conditioning
Conservation
Experimental group and control group
The brain stem

17. Which receptor is used for color vision?
Babbling
Kohlberg
Cones
6

18. What is: attraction to the same sex?
Rite of Passage
Homosexual
Rubella
Pons

19. What is: your thoughts about what gives life purpose--the meaning of life - religion
Loudness
Because at birth cells aren't well connected (lacking in myelin - or nerve insulation)
Spiritual health
Developmental norm

20. What are the factors that influence psychosocial health?
Family situation - the world around you - lifespan - and maturity.
Cognitive theorist
Stage 4
Operant conditioning

21. What do endocrine glands do?
Cones
10
Create and release chemicals into the blood
9-15

22. What is another name for a sound wave's amplitude?
Norplant
Base of the skull; size of a pea
Loudness
Set high standards - assist along the way

23. One's wishes for the distribution of one's property and possessions after death
Five
Toddler
A will
Dependent variable

24. A collection of data from all cases or people in the chosen set
Cerebral anoxia
Outer ear
Pituitary gland
A census

25. What is: the bumps on top of the tongue that contain taste buds?
Papillae
10-14 months
3
As they age

26. What is another name for a newborn?
Irritability - social responsiveness - and activity level
Up to 6 months of observation by doctors
Neonate
Gene

27. 1 -2 -2 -2 -3 -3 -5 -8 -9 -9. What is the mode?
2
Developmental norm
Assimilation
Skin appearance - 'age spots' - hair

28. How is IQ calculated?
Erogenous zones
Medicated delivery
10-14 months
Mental age/Chronological age - x 100

29. Defense mechanism in which complete rejection of the feeling or situation
Harry Harlow
Phonemes
Dyscalcula
Denial

30. Children that are raised on the Kibbutz are used to study the effects of what?
Habituation
Multiple caretakers
Rite of Passage
Correlation Research

31. What is: areas of the body which - when touched - lead to sexual arousal?
Self-esteem
Positive Correlation
Homosexual
Erogenous zones

32. What glands affect the mood - energy level - and stress?
Avoid punishment
Miscarriages or stillbirths
Adrenal glands
Abortion

33. Applied when a test measures something more than one facet
RU-486
Content validity
Timbre
Rods

34. What is a fertilized ovum or egg?
Kohlberg
Zygote
Strong correlation
Stimulus generalization

35. What is a learning disability in math - where concepts are learned one day and forgotten the next?
Stillbirth
Excitement - plateau - orgasm - and resolution phases
In vitro fertilization
Dyscalcula

36. Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs consists of which steps?
Self-actualization - Esteem needs - Belonging and love - Safety - Physical needs
Multiple caretakers
Resilient child
Timbre

37. How does the pupil work?
Opens and closes to let the correct amount of light in
It measures a child against their peers - in that moment
Iris
Up to 6 months of observation by doctors

38. What do doctors agree is the best way to feed babies?
Psychological Tests
Double blind
Breast-feeding
Recognition

39. Categories of old age: 75-84
Lewis Terman
Middle-old
Hour of love
Preparatory Depression

40. What are the four characteristics of perception?
Self-concept
Parietal lobe
Automatic - selective - contextual - and creative
Intrinsic reinforcer

41. Teaches that when a certain action is performed - there are consequences--reinforces good behavior with extrinsic/intrinsic reinforcers
Pupil
Wilhelm Wundt
Operant conditioning
Babbling

42. What are the two different classifications of intelligence?
Fluid intelligence and crystal intelligence
Phonemes
Cerebral palsy
Zygote

43. What is the very critical period of the first 3 months in the womb?
Id
Convergent thinking
Prenatal development
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

44. What are: vibrations in the air that we receive through the ear to be processed?
Unoccupied behavior - onlooker - solitary independent (plays alone) - parallel play (plays around but not w/ others) - associative - cooperative play
Safety
John Watson
Sound waves

45. A child that bounces back from a difficult situation
Resilient child
Stage 6
Middle-old
Androgynous

46. A morpheme that can be a word on its own
Free morpheme
Informed consent
Longitudinal fissure
Valid

47. Experiment when none of the doctors - researchers - and participants know who is getting the real drug
Noise
Around age two
Sudden Infant Death Syndrome
Double blind

48. Who created functionalism?
William James
Negative reinforcer
Organ of corti
True

49. What is the method in which a variable and constant are use to test theories?
3 & 4
Jean Piaget
Corpus callosum
Experimental research

50. What kind of problem can it cause when a husband and wife have different blood types?

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