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DSST Lifespan Developmental Psychology
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1. What is: the type of thought related to numerical and intellectual puzzles--with both quick & creative responses?
Esteem needs
Fluid intelligence
Full (46)
The skull - dura mater membrane - arachnoid layer - and pia mater.
2. A term used to describe something similar in structure or organization
Up to 6 months of observation by doctors
Reciprocal determinism
Qualitative
Telegraphic speech
3. What is the part of the ear that includes the pinna and external auditory canal?
Cognitive improvement
Olfactory sense
Outer ear
It measures a child against their peers - in that moment
4. What is the term for lack of responsiveness to other people?
Francis Bacon--16th century
Autism
Temporal lobe
Semantics
5. Stages of friendship: two way - fair weathered
Teratogens
Multiple caretakers
6-12
Hippocampus
6. What is the enzyme deficiency that can cause mental retardation without treatment?
Middle childhood
Infant
Phenylketonuria (PKU)
Increase
7. What is: psychological definition for having more equal personality characteristics between male&female?
Down syndrome
Cognitive
Androgynous
Full (46)
8. Children that are raised on the Kibbutz will often:
Have more bland personalities and often difficult for them to create and maintain intimate relationships as they have a lack of emotional depth
Self-actualization - Esteem needs - Belonging and love - Safety - Physical needs
Hypokinetic diseases
Mostly developed by the time of birth
9. Where is the pituitary gland located - and how big is it?
Base of the skull; size of a pea
Wilhelm Wundt
Self-actualization - Esteem needs - Belonging and love - Safety - Physical needs
Gestures
10. What controls breathing and heart rate?
Half (23)
Pons
Parasympathetic
Stage 2
11. What is: the study of substances which are harmful to prenatal development?
The right hand - right eye - and speech
Teratology
Cochlea
On chromosomes
12. Children that are raised on the Kibbutz are used to study the effects of what?
Multiple caretakers
Lewis Terman
Conservation
Babbling
13. What is another name for a sound wave's amplitude?
Olfactory epithelium
Rubella
The Premack Principle
Loudness
14. Who proposed fluid/crystallized intelligence?
Preschooler
Structuralism
Raymond Cattell
Gilligan
15. Fourth development of language
Gene
Telegraphic speech
Self-actualization
John Bowlby's Attachment Theory
16. The ethical component of the personality and provides the moral standards by which the ego operates
Babbling
Response extinction
B.F. Skinner
Super Ego
17. What is: attraction to both sexes?
Gradually through shaping
Bisexual
Closure
Valid
18. What are: the harmful substances to a developing fetus?
School-age Child
Accommodation
Teratogens
Humanistic
19. In the Harlow experiment: between the wire monkey+bottle - and cloth monkey+no bottle - which fake mother did the babies prefer?
Telegraphic speech
Middle-age Adult
Depth perception
The cloth monkey
20. Used to show links between people - events - actions - behaviors - etc. while not determining the caus - rather is linked to statistics
3 & 4
Denial (Shock)
Correlation Research
Five
21. Who coined the Theory of Moral Development?
Preconventional Morality
Not fully developed; but can distinguish color - track movement - and bright objects.
Kohlberg
Cognitive improvement
22. A morpheme that must be w/ a word
Bound morpheme
Fetal tobacco syndrome
Psychological Tests
Reaction Formation
23. First stage in the Kubler-Ross's Stages of Dying: 'This could never happen to me. This must be a mistake'
Projection
Authoritarian
Denial (Shock)
Alfred Binet
24. Defense mechanism: a type of displacement - a redirection of the feeling into a socially productive activity
Fontanels
Mendel
Unoccupied behavior - onlooker - solitary independent (plays alone) - parallel play (plays around but not w/ others) - associative - cooperative play
Sublimation
25. Stereotypes in genders; boys play with trucks and girls wear makeup - etc.
Explicit role instruction
Stage 5
Self-efficacy
Gerontology
26. Defense mechanism: you deny your feelings and come up with ways to justify your behavior
Fluid intelligence
Rationalization
Miscarriages or stillbirths
Medicated delivery
27. Who argued that classical conditioning explains some behaviors - but operant conditioning plays a much larger role?
Peer group
B.F. Skinner
Maslow
Dependent variable
28. Age at with children start feeling a fear of the dark - which can be strong and appear suddenly
Injections
Left hand - left eye - and simple comprehension
Lewis Terman
6
29. What is the transparent part in the front of the eye?
Sweet - bitter - salty - sour
Lens
Positive reinforcer
Pituitary gland
30. What does STDs stand for - including AIDS and herpes?
Obstetrician-gynecologist - family practitioner - or midwife
Sexually transmitted diseases
Cerebrospinal fluid
Developmental norm
31. The final stage of Maslow's Hierarchy of needs. A stage you may never actually meet.
Dialectical perspective
Self-actualization
Inner ear
Miscarriages or stillbirths
32. 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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33. What most-extreme fate does syphillis often cause in infants?
Elaboration
Miscarriages or stillbirths
Six months
Perception
34. Stage at which children are egocentric and will therefore think divorce is their fault
A will
Preoperational stage (ages 3-6)
Cerebral cortex
It measures a child against their peers - in that moment
35. What is the perception characteristic that: you don't have to think about it for it to happen?
They can be coached into learning a type of test--do better or worse - etc.
Automatic
Nature
Alfred Binet
36. When people w/in an experiment are assigned to a group randomly
Random assignment
2
Fetal alcohol syndrome
Dialectical perspective
37. True or False: Kohlberg believed that you go through each step of moral development one @ a time and could not skip them.
True
Auditory System
Lewis Terman
Oral contraceptives
38. What is the name for the two halves of the brain?
Longitudinal fissure
Cerebrum
Autism
The skull - dura mater membrane - arachnoid layer - and pia mater.
39. When do the two fontanels harden?
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40. A child that is always in a hurry
Hurried-child
Abortion
Middle-old
Rite of Passage
41. Theory that every function in the child's cultural development appears twice: first between people - then inside the child.
No
Cross Sectional Study
Social development or social cognition
In vitro fertilization
42. The repetition of certain syllables
Valid
Babbling
Fit in
Mean
43. How was the visual cliff study conducted?
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44. A method of modifying behavior - by ignoring the behavior so you don't have the response
Emergency contraception
Sublimation
Response extinction
12+
45. Does a somatic (body) cell have a full - or half - set of chromosomes?
Full (46)
Auditory System
5
Median
46. Second development of language - still pre-speech; repetition of meaningful sounds
Babbling
Operant conditioning
ADHD
Fluid intelligence and crystal intelligence
47. Final stage in the Kubler-Ross's Stages of Dying: 'I'm ready'
Valid
Acceptance
Equilibrium
Laboratory observation
48. How many PAIRS of chromosomes do body cells have?
Consciousness
First trimester
Correlational research
23 pairs
49. What is: the realization that objects stay the same even when they are made to look different?
Self-concept
Pupil
Conservation
Old-old
50. When people of different ages are studied at one particular time
Full (46)
Set high standards - assist along the way
Six or seven months
Cross Sectional Study