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DSST Lifespan Developmental Psychology

Subjects : dsst, psychology
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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Which receptor is used for color vision?






2. What is: structures in the cerebral cortex related to memory and emotion?






3. Second step in Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs






4. Who created structuralism?






5. 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.






6. When a participant fills out a survey themselves about themselves






7. A signal to society that certain rules have changed - this person is no longer a child






8. What is: the way the brain organizes and gives meaning to information provided by the senses?






9. Who argued that classical conditioning explains some behaviors - but operant conditioning plays a much larger role?






10. What is a learning disability in math - where concepts are learned one day and forgotten the next?






11. In a kibbutz - the real parents of children may see them for one hour a day - a time referred to as the __________.






12. What is the name for the awareness of external and internal events?






13. What are the four lobes of the brain?






14. What is the variable that the experimenter controls?






15. Defense mechanism in which complete rejection of the feeling or situation






16. A child that bounces back from a difficult situation






17. The repetition of certain syllables






18. What is the perception characteristic that: you don't have to think about it for it to happen?






19. 1 -2 -2 -2 -3 -3 -5 -8 -9 -9. What is the mode?






20. What is: when the mother consumes alcohol while her babies are in the womb?






21. What is: attraction to the opposite sex?






22. The name most associated with operant conditioning is who?






23. What is: the difference made to one's mind by the process of assimilation?






24. The larger the sample:






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

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26. Why is self-report data not as reliable as other research methods?






27. Which part of the ANS is the calming part of the system?






28. Failure to thrive is caused by:






29. A set of cases of people randomly chosen from a large group to represent that large group






30. What is the term for lack of responsiveness to other people?






31. Visible signs of aging include:

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32. What are the three different areas of the Autonomic Nervous System?






33. Putting disabled students w/ normal students






34. All other variables w/in an experiment that researchers do not have control over






35. Gilligan believed that Kholberg's theory described the male progression which she called the what?






36. What is the variable that the experiment is trying to test?






37. Which lobe is related to voluntary muscles and intelligence?






38. Cultural bias not generally known across all subcultures






39. The variable in which the researcher has direct control over






40. Pavlovs famous classical conditioning dog experiment.






41. How much are the eyes developed in newborns?






42. What is the method in which a variable and constant are use to test theories?






43. What is the middle number in a set of data called?






44. A person who uses ______ has a stated position - but also acknowledges that it may change over time.






45. What percent of children in kindergarten are immunized?






46. What is: the belief that you are the center of the universe and everything revolves around you - and the inability to see the world as someone else does and adapt to it.






47. What two things make up the central nervous system?






48. Stages that a person goes through when they find out they have an incurable disease or find out they are going to die

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49. When a participant starts to feel the effects of the drug but is actually taking a sugar pill or placebo






50. The ethical component of the personality and provides the moral standards by which the ego operates