SUBJECTS
|
BROWSE
|
CAREER CENTER
|
POPULAR
|
JOIN
|
LOGIN
Business Skills
|
Soft Skills
|
Basic Literacy
|
Certifications
About
|
Help
|
Privacy
|
Terms
|
Email
Search
Test your basic knowledge |
DSST Lifespan Developmental Psychology
Start Test
Study First
Subjects
:
dsst
,
psychology
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
If you are not ready to take this test, you can
study here
.
Match each statement with the correct term.
Don't refresh. All questions and answers are randomly picked and ordered every time you load a test.
This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. Stages of friendship: autonomous - interdependent
1 & 2
12+
No correlation
The penis doesn't grow and breasts may develop.
2. What is the clear membrane in front of the eye that protects it?
Psychological Tests
Self-actualization
Cornea
Alternative - or artificial - insemination
3. What is another term for the system of hearing?
Auditory System
Gentle birth
Consciousness
Placebo effect
4. What kind of childbirth did Dr. Grantly Dick Read start teaching?
They can be coached into learning a type of test--do better or worse - etc.
It measures a child against their peers - in that moment
Psychoanalytical
Natural prepared childbirth
5. Categories of old age: 75-84
School-age Child
Middle-old
William James
Longitudinal Study
6. The ethical component of the personality and provides the moral standards by which the ego operates
Super Ego
Sampling
Suppression
Fetal death
7. What 4 main problems do fetal alcohol syndrome cause?
Reaction Formation
Family situation - the world around you - lifespan - and maturity.
Slowed growth - body/face malfunctions - nervous system disorders - mental retardation.
Heterosexual
8. A morpheme that can be a word on its own
Fit in
Cochlea
Free morpheme
Injections
9. What is: an experienced practitioner who can attend pregnancies and deliveries?
Middle childhood
Midwife
Short attention span
Assimilation
10. The number which occurs the most often
Vygotsky
Mode
Convergent thinking
Schema
11. Which part of the ANS is the arousing part of the system?
Erogenous zones
Operant conditioning
Auditory System
Sympathetic nervous system
12. How is ADHD diagnosed?
Homophobia
Parallel play
Up to 6 months of observation by doctors
Around age two
13. What is: the process by which a person takes material into their mind from the environment - which may mean changing sensory evidence to make it fit?
90%
Genetic Mutation
Wilhelm Wundt
Assimilation
14. What is the name for depth perception cues made with both eyes?
Family therapy
Kubler-Ross's Stages of Dying
Binocular cues
School-age Child
15. Third step in Maslow's Hierarchy of needs in which you may want to meet needs of belongings and love through relationships
Belonging and love
John Bowlby's Attachment Theory
Family practitioner
Cerebral cortex
16. The name most associated with operant conditioning is who?
B.F. Skinner
Cephalocaudal
Gestalt psychology
Sexual identity
17. Children are most likely to achieve if parents:
Set high standards - assist along the way
Osteoporosis
Kohlberg
Mental age/Chronological age - x 100
18. Which receptor is more sensitive to light - but is not used to view color?
Rods
Crystallized intelligence
Alternative - or artificial - insemination
Depo-Provera
19. What two diseases - when caught early in the pregnancy - are most dangerous to the fetus?
Experimental research
Punishment
Syphillis and rubella
Developmental norm
20. Which lobe is related to voluntary muscles and intelligence?
Homophobia
Quantitative
Classical conditioning works more to explain reflexive or unconscious reactions - Operant conditioning works to explain elective actions and reactions
Frontal lobe
21. Which lobe is related to vision?
Left hand - left eye - and simple comprehension
Occipital lobe
Behaviorism
Positive reinforcer
22. All other variables w/in an experiment that researchers do not have control over
Binocular cues
Dependent variable
Socialization
The cerebrum
23. What do doctors agree is the best way to feed babies?
Auditory System
Psychoanalytical
Breast-feeding
Ivan Pavlov
24. What is: the representation in the mind of a set of perceptions - ideas - and actions - which go together
Contextual
Independent variable
Punishment
Schema
25. The process of unassociating the condition with the response
Toxic shock syndrome
Extinction
12+
Independent variable
26. What is: your interactions with others in social situations
Virginia Apgar - or Apgar Rating
Cerebral palsy
Social health
Middle ear
27. What thought process characterizes creative - gifted - or advanced children?
Divergent thinkers
Gradually through shaping
Classical conditioning
Contextual
28. Who made the first IQ test?
Auditory System
Cones
Alfred Binet
Homosexual
29. Four steps of the scientific method include:
Dizygotic twins
1) Gather info - 2) Generate hypothesis - 3) Test hypothesis - 4) Revise
Emotional health
Closure
30. In the Harlow experiment: between the wire monkey+bottle - and cloth monkey+no bottle - which fake mother did the babies prefer?
They can be coached into learning a type of test--do better or worse - etc.
The cloth monkey
Drugs - diseases (like HIV - rubella) - and pollutants (mercury - radiation - etc)
Opens and closes to let the correct amount of light in
31. What is: T-shaped device implanted in uterus by a physician for five to ten years at a time?
IUD
Baby Albert
Stage 5
Loudness
32. What is: relating new information to something familiar
Family situation - the world around you - lifespan - and maturity.
Erogenous zones
Elaboration
William James
33. What is the method to find the amount that one variable changes in relation to another?
Consciousness
Osteoporosis
Correlational research
Conception
34. What is the method of surgical delivery?
Egocentric behavior
Dialectical perspective
Cesarean birth
Put babies on their backs to sleep - and not have anything extra (toys - pillows etc) in the bed or crib.
35. What is the simple type of learning for getting used to something?
Freud
Habituation
Stage 6
Full (46)
36. What kind of problem can it cause when a husband and wife have different blood types?
Warning
: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in
/var/www/html/basicversity.com/show_quiz.php
on line
183
37. What is the conception alternative where semen is deposited into the body via a thin tube?
Alternative - or artificial - insemination
Operant conditioning
Survey
Peer group
38. Stages of friendship: Momentary playmates
9-15
Fontanels
3-7
Up to 6 months of observation by doctors
39. What is the medical term for birth of a dead baby?
Osteoporosis
Peer group
Stillbirth
Sympathetic - parasympathetic - and enteric
40. What is: areas of the body which - when touched - lead to sexual arousal?
Autoimmune Theory
Erogenous zones
Independent variable
Inner ear
41. What is a learning disability in math - where concepts are learned one day and forgotten the next?
Gonads
Subject
Dyscalcula
The Montessori Method
42. Imitation of a past-observed behavior
Rods
Holophrase syntax
Deferred imitation
Selera
43. Therapy that involves the whole family
Naturalistic observation
Family therapy
Critical period
Qualitative
44. What is: when a child can't be conceived via the usual method?
The meanlinkk of utterance (how long their sentences are)
Divergent thinkers
Infertility
Explicit role instruction
45. What is: focusing attention on a small amount of information?
Phonemes
Hollow phrases
RU-486
Selective attention
46. First step in Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs such as food water and shelter
Conservation
Physical needs
Content validity
Telegraphic speech
47. A reinforcer that comes from within the individual--something emotional.
Intrinsic reinforcer
In vitro fertilization
Habituation
Nurture
48. Why isn't an IQ test a good indicator for children over long periods of time?
Humanistic Theorists
Baby Albert
They can be coached into learning a type of test--do better or worse - etc.
Mostly developed by the time of birth
49. Putting disabled students w/ normal students
Biological; Behavioral; Cognitive; Humanistic; Psychoanalytical; Structuralism; Functionalism; Nature vs. Nurture
Mainstreaming
Psychometrics
Assimilation
50. What is: a child (especially preschool age) doesn't take into consideration other people's needs--their perceptions are limited to their own point of view
Young-old
Peer group
Egocentric behavior
Projection