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DSST Lifespan Developmental Psychology
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1. Level 1 of Kohlberg's Theory of Moral Development includes which stages
Loudness
1 & 2
Authoritative
Young-old
2. Who created the first scientific psychology laboratory?
Wilhelm Wundt
Natural prepared childbirth
Young-old
Six months
3. Defense mechanism: Turning a feeling into the exact opposite feeling
Reaction Formation
It measures a child against their peers - in that moment
Equilibrium
Gender role stereotypes
4. What is the approach that assumes people organize their perceptions by patterns?
Androgynous
Six months
Gestalt psychology
Erogenous zones
5. 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.
Parallel play
Regression
Androgynous
Because at birth cells aren't well connected (lacking in myelin - or nerve insulation)
6. The number which occurs the most often
Mode
Psychiatrist
Chomsky
Equilibrium
7. When people are followed and studied over a long period of time and checked up on at certain points
Longitudinal Study
The penis doesn't grow and breasts may develop.
Epinephrine and norepinephrine
Breast-feeding
8. What are: the principles and standards of behavior - including morals; right/wrong and having one's actions correlate with their beliefs
Kubler-Ross's Stages of Dying
Ethics
Zone of Proximal Development
Bound morpheme
9. 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
Wilhelm Wundt
Carl Rogers
Positive Correlation
Conception
10. Children learn and form their conscience and thoughts of what is acceptable behavior from what?
Watching their parents
Parallel play
Preoperational stage (ages 3-6)
Not fully developed; but can distinguish color - track movement - and bright objects.
11. Cultural bias not generally known across all subcultures
Cerebellum
Social learning theory
Psychometrics
More Knowledgeable Other (MKO)
12. Fourth development of language
Telegraphic speech
Selera
Survey
23 pairs
13. What is: the theory to investigate the elements or 'structures' of the mind; classify structures and focus on conscious thought
Structuralism
Bell would ring - then feed the dogs - Dogs would salivate when given food - Over time dogs began to salivate simply at ring of bell
Dyscalcula
Cellular Theory
14. How does the pupil work?
Lewis Terman
Hurried-child
Phonemes
Opens and closes to let the correct amount of light in
15. What is: areas of the body which - when touched - lead to sexual arousal?
Endocrine system
Erogenous zones
Acceptance
Opens and closes to let the correct amount of light in
16. What is: the most developed - and largest (80%) - part of the brain?
Biological
Cerebral cortex
Subjects may be dishonest w/ their answers
Wilhelm Wundt
17. 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)
Punishment
Consciousness
Appearance - pulse - grimace (reflex) - activity - and respiration
Critical period
18. Third step in Maslow's Hierarchy of needs in which you may want to meet needs of belongings and love through relationships
Figurative language
Belonging and love
Alternative - or artificial - insemination
Classical conditioning works more to explain reflexive or unconscious reactions - Operant conditioning works to explain elective actions and reactions
19. First development of language; pre-speech
Object permanence
Cooing
Fetal death
William James
20. Which lobe is related to voluntary muscles and intelligence?
Constant
Down syndrome
Frontal lobe
Stage 1
21. What is another term for the system of hearing?
Ferdinand Lamaze
Auditory System
Genetic Mutation
Left hand - left eye - and simple comprehension
22. Who was the psychoanalyst who documented stages of emotional growth in regards to babies?
They can be coached into learning a type of test--do better or worse - etc.
Dependent variable
Erik Erikson
Parallel play
23. An environment where children live and attend school
3-7
Peer group
Hypothalamus
Adolescent
24. The distortion of the results
Hospice
Half (23)
Bias
Cephalocaudal
25. What is the characteristic that: you may be more interested in a person - rather than what she is saying?
Subject
Modeling
Selective
Sublimation
26. What is the factor that always stays the same?
Kleinfelter Syndrome; male
Constant
John Bowlby's Attachment Theory
In vitro fertilization
27. What two other chemicals do the adrenal glands secrete?
Psychometrics
Epinephrine and norepinephrine
Baby Albert
Cognitive improvement
28. The smallest unit of a word which has meaning - may be bound or free
Gestures
Morphemes
Naturalistic observation
Strong correlation
29. What is: the theory centered on studying how the mind is involved in knowing - learning - remembering - thinking; study how the mind relates to behavior
Cognitive
Adolescent
Kibbutz
Rubella
30. Read pages 22-25 for charts: Piaget's Stages of Development and Freud's Psychosexual Stages
Telegraphic speech
First trimester
You need two - one from each parent - to conceive.
...
31. Observing someone's behavior and basing our own behavior on it
Modeling
Dialectical perspective
Cross-modal perception
1 in 14 -000
32. What is the name for the bundles of axons - used to communicate between the two halves of brain?
Clinical psychologist
Rationalization
Informed consent
Commissures
33. Final stage in the Kubler-Ross's Stages of Dying: 'I'm ready'
Structuralism
Acceptance
Experimental group and control group
It measures a child against their peers - in that moment
34. What is the most extreme outcome of a woman drinking during her pregnancy?
Preschooler
Fetal death
Gene
Subject
35. Disagreed w/ Kohlberg's Theory of Moral Development because his subjects were mainly male
Teratogens
Cross Sectional Study
Gilligan
Depth perception
36. What is the scientific name for the sense of smell?
Olfactory sense
99%
Stage 6
Infertility
37. What is the characteristic that: you fill in areas that we do not have complete information about?
Behavioral
Creative
Not fully developed; but can distinguish color - track movement - and bright objects.
Biological
38. What 4 main problems do fetal alcohol syndrome cause?
Nurture
Slowed growth - body/face malfunctions - nervous system disorders - mental retardation.
Operant conditioning
Puberty
39. A set of cases of people randomly chosen from a large group to represent that large group
Nature vs. nurture
Puberty
Sampling
Temporal lobe
40. What types of drugs can hurt a developing fetus if taken by the mother?
Stage
Psychoanalytic theory
Middle-age Adult
All drugs - including over the counter - aspirin - coffee
41. Jean Piaget extensively used which research method to study children?
Natural observation
Sexual orientation
Gender
Proximodistal
42. What is the most dangerous trimester for the fetus (in regard to drug/alcohol use)?
First trimester
Olfactory epithelium
Olfactory sense
Recognition
43. How can parents avoid down syndrome in their children?
Sexual orientation
Rubella
Conceive at younger ages
Regression
44. Experiment where researchers made a baby afraid of rats through classical conditioning
Three
Endocrine system
Cornea and lens
Baby Albert
45. A higher number of the correlation coefficient closer to the number one shows a:
Frontal lobe
Ferdinand Lamaze
Strong correlation
Invincibility fable
46. What is the term to describe the thinking part of health?
Response extinction
Bandura
All drugs - including over the counter - aspirin - coffee
Mental health
47. Defense mechanism: transferring your thoughts and feelings onto others
Gentle birth
Automatic
IUD
Projection
48. What is: generalizations about each gender - such as that men are aggressive and logical - and women are nurturing and emotional
Gender role stereotypes
Teratogens
Psychometrics
Recall
49. Extension of 'actions speak louder than words' in behavior; follow others' examples despite their words.
Social learning theory
William James
Sympathetic nervous system
Sexual orientation
50. How many PAIRS of chromosomes do body cells have?
90%
23 pairs
Family practitioner
Put babies on their backs to sleep - and not have anything extra (toys - pillows etc) in the bed or crib.