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DSST Lifespan Developmental Psychology

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1. What are: vibrations in the air that we receive through the ear to be processed?






2. What side of the N/N debate means that all children are first good; believe it is the way they are brought up that affects personality and actions?






3. Which receptor is more sensitive to light - but is not used to view color?






4. What is the white part of the eye that protects and manages the shape of the eye?






5. What is: a period in a child's development in which he/she is capable of understanding some things but not others






6. Which part of the ANS is the arousing part of the system?






7. Removing something unpleasant from a situation - to make a behavior more likely






8. What is: the representation in the mind of a set of perceptions - ideas - and actions - which go together






9. Read pages 22-25 for charts: Piaget's Stages of Development and Freud's Psychosexual Stages






10. Parenting styles: respects individually - but tries to instill social values






11. First stage in the Kubler-Ross's Stages of Dying: 'This could never happen to me. This must be a mistake'






12. Believing women followed a different progression than men - she called the moral progression of the woman what?






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






14. Sigmund Freud's analysis of human personality and subconscious drives features three main components including:






15. Gifted children often hide gifts to ______.






16. What is being able to reproduce knowledge from memory?






17. What is: the type of thought that has to do with factual information--trivia - vocabulary - science - history?






18. What is: not being involved in a sexual relationship?






19. What are the two different classifications of intelligence?






20. Stage at which children are egocentric and will therefore think divorce is their fault






21. Who was the psychoanalyst who documented stages of emotional growth in regards to babies?






22. What is the term for oxygen deficiency to the brain?






23. Contains the psychic content related to the primitive instincts of the body - notably sex and aggression - functioning entirely according to the pleasure-pain principle - seeking either immediate fulfillment or settling for a compromise fulfillment






24. What is the very critical period of the first 3 months in the womb?






25. First development of language; pre-speech






26. Who developed the theory of social development?






27. Stage in which a person abides by the law because they think that law is a higher order; laws cannot be broken under any circumstance; social-order-maintaining orientation






28. Gilligan believed that ________ conflicted between self and other - while ________ conflicted between self and justice






29. Which stage of development is: Initiative vs. Guilt? (trying different roles)






30. A test that gives information about a participant including standardized tests such as aptitude - interest - and personality tests






31. What syndrome is characterized by small stature - poor coordination - hyperactive - learning disabilities - mental retardation - or large head?






32. A lower number of the correlation coefficient - closer to the number zero shows a:






33. Categories of old age: 85+






34. What is the name for the bundles of axons - used to communicate between the two halves of brain?






35. Usually has a doctoral degree in psychology plus an internship; cannot prescribe medicine.






36. What is the medical means to terminate a pregnancy?






37. Who did the study between stimulus and response with dogs; and what did he discover?






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






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






40. What are the factors that influence psychosocial health?






41. When is anoxia a problem in births?






42. How much is hearing developed in neonates?






43. Level 1 of Kohlberg's Theory of Moral Development






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






45. Dying w/o a will






46. What is: a mix of gender identity - gender roles - and orientation; recognition of ourselves as sexual beings.






47. Chomsky believed that the ability to develop language skills was inherited in ______.






48. Fourth stage in the Kubler-Ross's Stages of Dying: 'There's nothing I can do about this'






49. Age at which most children will identify specific 'best-friends'






50. What is: when a person or animal responds to a neutral stimulus with a meaningful one