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DSST Lifespan Developmental Psychology
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1. 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.
Nature vs. nurture
Hurried-child
Sexual identity
Best friend
2. What is: the theory centered on behavior; see person as blank slate upon which impressions of experiences can be recorded.
Strong correlation
Lewis Terman
Mainstreaming
Behavioral
3. What is: relating new information to something familiar
Temporal lobe
Fluid intelligence and crystal intelligence
Phenylketonuria (PKU)
Elaboration
4. What are the 8 psychological approaches?
Fluid intelligence
Biological; Behavioral; Cognitive; Humanistic; Psychoanalytical; Structuralism; Functionalism; Nature vs. Nurture
Medicated delivery
Five
5. What kind of childbirth did Dr. Grantly Dick Read start teaching?
Timbre
No correlation
Natural prepared childbirth
Mostly developed by the time of birth
6. What is the study done to show that infants have depth perception?
Class inclusion
Independent variable
Divergent thinking
Visual cliff
7. Who taught women breathing procedures to get through childbirth - including panting?
Dyscalcula
10-14 months
Ferdinand Lamaze
Laboratory observation
8. Final stage in the Kubler-Ross's Stages of Dying: 'I'm ready'
Independent variable
Acceptance
Natural observation
Stage 3
9. What is the least developed part of a newborn (growth is not complete)?
You need two - one from each parent - to conceive.
90%
Miscarriages or stillbirths
The brain/the cerebral cortex
10. What is: an M.D. who specializes in OB-GYN?
Obstetrician-gynecologist
The meanlinkk of utterance (how long their sentences are)
Pituitary gland
Classification
11. Visible signs of aging include:
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12. What is the sense that gives information about balance and body movement? (if your body is moving - tilting - etc.)
Vestibular sense
Smell
William James
Mostly developed by the time of birth
13. What is: the type of thought that has to do with factual information--trivia - vocabulary - science - history?
Six months
Midwife
Mainstreaming
Crystallized intelligence
14. Who introduced the scientific method?
Survey
Fluid intelligence and crystal intelligence
Peer group
Francis Bacon--16th century
15. What is the characteristic that: you fill in areas that we do not have complete information about?
Opens and closes to let the correct amount of light in
Visual cliff
Automatic - selective - contextual - and creative
Creative
16. What section of the nervous system is responsible for the 'fight or flight' response?
Middle childhood
Teratology
Assimilation
Autonomic Nervous System
17. In a study - the researchers have direct control over this variable
Mendel
Classical conditioning works more to explain reflexive or unconscious reactions - Operant conditioning works to explain elective actions and reactions
Independent variable
Ego
18. A way of obtaining information about a specific type of information in which questionnaires are given out to participants who are then asked to answer the questions to the best of their ability
Rite of Passage
Belonging and love
Survey
Unoccupied behavior - onlooker - solitary independent (plays alone) - parallel play (plays around but not w/ others) - associative - cooperative play
19. Which stage of development is: Generativity vs. Stagnation? (giving to the next generation)
Limbic system
Toddler
Middle-age Adult
Avoid punishment
20. The first experiment of classical conditioning was done by who?
Old-old
On chromosomes
Cerebrum
Ivan Pavlov
21. When one variable increase - another variable increases. We call this a what?
Constant
Preconventional - conventional - postconventional
Positive Correlation
Dyscalcula
22. Gilligan believed that Kholberg's theory described the male progression which she called the what?
Medicated delivery
Morality of Justice
Morphemes
Qualitative
23. The repetition of certain syllables
Longitudinal Study
Babbling
Francis Bacon--16th century
Rubella
24. What part of the central nervous system controls all necessary functions of the body?
Avoid punishment
Hospice
The brain
Genes
25. What are areas in a baby's skull where cartilage hasn't yet hardened into bone?
Stimulus generalization
5 & 6
Fontanels
Holophrase syntax
26. Why is self-report data not as reliable as other research methods?
Erik Erikson
Consciousness
Subjects may be dishonest w/ their answers
The skull - dura mater membrane - arachnoid layer - and pia mater.
27. Why isn't an IQ test a good indicator for children over long periods of time?
Survey
Selective
Mental health
They can be coached into learning a type of test--do better or worse - etc.
28. What is: generalizations about each gender - such as that men are aggressive and logical - and women are nurturing and emotional
Autism
Gender role stereotypes
Psychiatrist
Weak correlation
29. What is the drug to cause an abortion in the first 9 weeks of pregnancy?
Accommodation
Skin appearance - 'age spots' - hair
On chromosomes
RU-486
30. Infants develop a secure attachment when parents pay attention to and respond to a child's needs. What theory includes this statement?
Infant
Psychoanalytic theory
Regression
Proximodistal
31. What is: attraction to both sexes?
Stimulus generalization
Bisexual
Six months
Ego
32. Child's realization their sex will stay the same
Frontal lobe
Endocrine system
Gender conservation
Alfred Binet
33. What is the term for fraternal twins?
Adolescent
Dizygotic twins
Around age two
B.F. Skinner
34. One's wishes for the distribution of one's property and possessions after death
Loudness
Figurative language
A will
4-9
35. A signal to society that certain rules have changed - this person is no longer a child
Rite of Passage
Kohlberg
Cooing
Clinical psychologist
36. What is the thought process that considers an idea or belief (thesis) and acknowledges the idea's opposite (antithesis)?
Infant
A census
Experimental group and control group
Dialectical perspective
37. A baby repeating what you just said
Young-old
Echolalia
A census
Binocular cues
38. What is: term used to describe a person's belief that they can perform a task successfully?
Cornea and lens
Self-efficacy
Parietal lobe
Visual cliff
39. Defense mechanism: Turning a feeling into the exact opposite feeling
Reaction Formation
5
Cross-modal perception
Cerebral palsy
40. Which stage of development is: Trust vs. Mistrust?
Teratology
Sexual identity
Infant
Equilibrium
41. What is: your interactions with others in social situations
Humanistic Theorists
Noise
Infant
Social health
42. Who developed the theory of social development?
Developmental norm
Cerebrospinal fluid
Vygotsky
Intrinsic reinforcer
43. What is: the number of full wavelengths that pass through a point in a given amount of time
Frequency
The brain/the cerebral cortex
Loudness
Preconventional Morality
44. 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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45. Piaget believed that the individual actively constructs knowledge about the world--what is the term for this?
Cornea
Mentally retarded
Cognitive theorist
Encoding the information - represnting the information - and retrieving information from memory.
46. Stages of friendship: one way assistance
Correlation coefficient
Multiple caretakers
Drugs - diseases (like HIV - rubella) - and pollutants (mercury - radiation - etc)
4-9
47. Stage in which a person makes decisions according to his or her conscience; the universal ethical principal orientation; not many people ever reach this stage
Stage 4
Diaphragm
Rubella
Stage 6
48. What purpose do fontanels have?
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49. When can a person's short term memory become incapacitated?
As they age
Half (23)
Norplant
Cross-modal perception
50. Defense mechanism: reverting to old behavior to avoid feelings
Regression
Closure
Teratology
Self-efficacy