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DSST Lifespan Developmental Psychology
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1. Imitation of a past-observed behavior
Infant
Closure
Placebo effect
Deferred imitation
2. Aside from learning disabilities - what physical problem do Kleinfelter people have?
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3. First element to Vygotsky's theory: what does social interaction facilitate?
Sudden Infant Death Syndrome
Cognitive improvement
More Knowledgeable Other (MKO)
Cerebral cortex
4. What is: the debate between whether a child is born a bad seed--with whatever disposition/tastes/personality they were meant to have; or that a child is born good - with their upbringing affecting their later personality and actions.
Stage 4
Condom
Nature vs. nurture
Behaviorism
5. Third development of language
Homophobia
Hollow phrases
Emotional health
Authoritarian
6. What is: small device to block access to the uterus; left in place with spermicide for 6-8 hours - in order to kill any remaining sperm?
Diaphragm
The brain
Elaboration
Kohlberg
7. A child that is always in a hurry
Hospice
Create and release chemicals into the blood
Mendel
Hurried-child
8. Stage in which a person is concerned w/ how their action might affect society; the social contract orientation
Stage 5
Maslow
Classical conditioning works more to explain reflexive or unconscious reactions - Operant conditioning works to explain elective actions and reactions
The cloth monkey
9. Stages of friendship: intimate
Hospice
9-15
Psychoanalytic theory
Selera
10. Putting disabled students w/ normal students
Selective attention
Structuralism
Dependent variable
Mainstreaming
11. What do doctors agree is the best way to feed babies?
Contextual
Strong correlation
Breast-feeding
Short attention span
12. Who thought of the mind as a stream of consciousness--a flow of emotions - sensations and thoughts?
Pituitary gland
Natural observation
William James
Dialectical perspective
13. Theory by Bandura; the interaction of a person's personality - the environment - and the behavior.
Socialization
Ego
Reciprocal determinism
Allow the skull's plates of bone to shift or flex - making childbirth easier.
14. What is: the part of the ear inside the cochlea; contains sensors that change energy into impulses to be decoded by the brain?
Regression
Correlation coefficient
Social aspect of language
Organ of corti
15. What is the name for depth perception cues made with both eyes?
Five
Morphemes
Binocular cues
Virginia Apgar - or Apgar Rating
16. A link between a stimulus and a response in which a person or animal associates or substitutes a neutral stimulus with the actual stimulus
Mental age/Chronological age - x 100
Correlation Research
Childhood depression
Classical conditioning
17. Disagreed w/ Kohlberg's Theory of Moral Development because his subjects were mainly male
Critical period
Biological
William James
Gilligan
18. Self-aware - recognized - defined
6-12
Carl Rogers
Self-concept
Occipital lobe
19. Also called learning theory - based on the principle of observing and correcting behavior
Behaviorism
You need two - one from each parent - to conceive.
Sexual orientation
Negative reinforcer
20. A person who uses ______ has a stated position - but also acknowledges that it may change over time.
Ivan Pavlov
Dialectical perspective
Self-esteem
Cross-modal perception
21. What is: an experienced practitioner who can attend pregnancies and deliveries?
Binocular cues
Celibacy
Midwife
Humanistic
22. Types of child play in chronological order:
School-age Child
Unoccupied behavior - onlooker - solitary independent (plays alone) - parallel play (plays around but not w/ others) - associative - cooperative play
Dura mater
Nurture
23. What are the three different areas of the Autonomic Nervous System?
Nurture
Psychological maltreatment
Sympathetic - parasympathetic - and enteric
Sweet - bitter - salty - sour
24. The number which occurs the most often
Pituitary gland
Mode
Harry Harlow
None!!
25. What are the four components of psychosocial health?
Babbling
Bargaining
Sigmund Freud
Spiritual - emotional - mental - and social health
26. What is the simple type of learning for getting used to something?
Alzheimer's Disease
Cephalocaudal and Proximodistal
Habituation
Safety
27. When does language development begin?
Six months
Lens
Old-old
Old Age
28. What is: the process of working something out in your head; shows the difference between young children (act and try things out) and older (can do things in their heads)
Operation
Gerontology
Midwife
Psychiatrist
29. The larger the sample:
Mental age/Chronological age - x 100
Have more bland personalities and often difficult for them to create and maintain intimate relationships as they have a lack of emotional depth
Valid
The more accurate the result
30. What is the name for the awareness of external and internal events?
Operant Conditioning
Correlation coefficient
Consciousness
Creative
31. States that infants need to form at least one strong attachment such as to a parent - in order to develop normally
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32. What is: the method to prevent an egg and sperm from being able to access each other?
Psychometrics
Rite of Passage
Contraception
Base of the skull; size of a pea
33. The study of the aging process
Biological; Behavioral; Cognitive; Humanistic; Psychoanalytical; Structuralism; Functionalism; Nature vs. Nurture
Gerontology
Reinforcer
Self-efficacy
34. What is: the ability to associate something from one area of knowledge - and use that to determine or imagine what it is like in other aspects?
Reaction Formation
Cross-modal perception
Wear-and-Tear Theory
Obstetrician-gynecologist
35. Defense mechanism: a type of displacement - a redirection of the feeling into a socially productive activity
Neonate
Autoerotic behavior
Sublimation
Middle childhood
36. Chomsky believed that the ability to develop language skills was inherited in ______.
Binocular cues
Genes
Explicit role instruction
Autoimmune Theory
37. If a test measures what is meant to measure it is considered what?
Stimulus generalization
23 pairs
90%
Valid
38. What is: method of contraception by having no direct contact with partner's genitals?
Abstinence
Natural observation
On chromosomes
Sympathetic nervous system
39. Age at which children begin to share their toys and interact w/ one another - associative play
Convergent thinking
3
Avoid punishment
Depth perception
40. What is: structures in the cerebral cortex related to memory and emotion?
Sympathetic - parasympathetic - and enteric
Safety
Suppression
Limbic system
41. Fourth development of language
Gilligan
Vestibular sense
Telegraphic speech
The cerebrum
42. What is: generalizations about each gender - such as that men are aggressive and logical - and women are nurturing and emotional
Rubella
Sudden Infant Death Syndrome
Gender role stereotypes
50%
43. Failure to thrive is caused by:
Regression
Convergent thinking
Selective attention
Emotional neglect
44. What is: the moment an ovum/egg is fertilized by sperm?
Structuralism
Conception
Syphillis and rubella
Longitudinal Study
45. What does STDs stand for - including AIDS and herpes?
Prenatal development
Cerebral cortex
Young Adult
Sexually transmitted diseases
46. The process of unassociating the condition with the response
Extinction
Teratology
Id - Ego - Super Ego
ADHD
47. Which thought process is a creative process?
Prenatal development
Divergent thinking
Adolescent
Heterosexual
48. What fluid covers the brain - and is used to transport chemicals and regulate pressure?
ADHD
Cerebrospinal fluid
The brain stem
Cognitive
49. What is: your feelings and reactions
Childhood depression
Alzheimer's Disease
Emotional health
Pitch
50. What is: attraction to both sexes?
Francis Bacon--16th century
Bisexual
5 & 6
Regression