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DSST Lifespan Developmental Psychology
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1. Defined as diseases which are either related to or caused by a sedentary lifestyle - in other words - caused by the lack of regular exercise or activity
Stillbirth
Virginia Apgar - or Apgar Rating
Conceive at younger ages
Hypokinetic diseases
2. What syndrome is characterized by small stature - poor coordination - hyperactive - learning disabilities - mental retardation - or large head?
Fetal Alcohol Syndrome
Permissive
1 & 2
Self-report data
3. What is: when a child can't be conceived via the usual method?
Infertility
Experimental research
Intestate
You need two - one from each parent - to conceive.
4. Who created the first scientific psychology laboratory?
Family situation - the world around you - lifespan - and maturity.
Independent variable
Wilhelm Wundt
Median
5. What is: focusing attention on a small amount of information?
Alzheimer's Disease
Selective attention
Rods
Natural prepared childbirth
6. What is the name for the bundles of axons - used to communicate between the two halves of brain?
Commissures
Recognition
Stage 1
Retina
7. A medical doctor with a degree who specializes in psychotherapy - who can prescribe drugs
Psychiatrist
Selective attention
Content validity
Correlational research
8. Children that are raised on the Kibbutz will often:
Invincibility fable
Creative
Have more bland personalities and often difficult for them to create and maintain intimate relationships as they have a lack of emotional depth
B.F. Skinner
9. What syndrome happens when a woman smokes while pregnant?
Hospice
Mentally retarded
Sympathetic - parasympathetic - and enteric
Fetal tobacco syndrome
10. Where is the pituitary gland located - and how big is it?
Genes
Conception
Base of the skull; size of a pea
Half (23)
11. What is the name of the largest commissure?
Corpus callosum
Bias
Kleinfelter Syndrome; male
Alfred Binet
12. Whatmakes a person able to see objects are they are - in 3 dimensions?
Depth perception
1 in 14 -000
Left hand - left eye - and simple comprehension
Belonging and love
13. What is: dynamic blend of our experiences - heredity - environment - etc. which determines how we react to problems/issues?
Self-actualization - Esteem needs - Belonging and love - Safety - Physical needs
Selective
Slowed growth - body/face malfunctions - nervous system disorders - mental retardation.
Personality
14. Defense mechanism: Turning a feeling into the exact opposite feeling
Gender
Reaction Formation
The cloth monkey
1 in 14 -000
15. When someone sees an incomplete form - they fill in the pieces and perceive it as it would be that way. What Gestalt principle is this an example of?
Organ of corti
You need two - one from each parent - to conceive.
Closure
Experimental research
16. What is the perception characteristic that: if you have heard a movie is scary - you might be more inclined to get scared?
Long labors or birth complications
Contextual
Fluid intelligence
Double blind
17. What two other chemicals do the adrenal glands secrete?
Cornea
Epinephrine and norepinephrine
Stage 5
B.F. Skinner
18. What sends commands to all other parts of the body?
The brain stem
Reinforcer
Autonomic Nervous System
Schema
19. Something pleasant used to make a behavior more likely
Safety
Frontal lobe
As soon as the bell was rung
Positive reinforcer
20. Defense mechanism: hiding the feelings and not acknowledging them
Suppression
Mostly developed by the time of birth
Appearance - pulse - grimace (reflex) - activity - and respiration
Gonads
21. Defense mechanism: transferring your thoughts and feelings onto others
Projection
Ego
Down syndrome
Sterilization
22. What is: the ability to group objects together on the basis of common features?
Cerebral palsy
Irritability - social responsiveness - and activity level
Classification
Skin appearance - 'age spots' - hair
23. What is the name for depth perception cues made with both eyes?
Infertility
Contraception
Genetic Mutation
Binocular cues
24. What is the approach that assumes people organize their perceptions by patterns?
The skull - dura mater membrane - arachnoid layer - and pia mater.
Parallel play
Egocentrism
Gestalt psychology
25. Did a longitudinal study that showed that smart kids are happy adults
Brain and spinal cord
Lewis Terman
Rubella
Correlation Research
26. The best way to teach children values is?
The cloth monkey
Pituitary gland
Cooing
Through actions - doing what you believe is correct
27. What is the part in the back of the eye that includes receptors called rods and cones?
Retina
Osteoporosis
Short attention span
Operant Conditioning
28. What is: a statistical measure of typical scores for categories of information?
The cerebrum
Dependent variable
12+
Developmental norm
29. Defense mechanism in which complete rejection of the feeling or situation
Dialectical perspective
Fetal tobacco syndrome
Ferdinand Lamaze
Denial
30. Who taught women breathing procedures to get through childbirth - including panting?
Ferdinand Lamaze
Sigmund Freud
Self-actualization - Esteem needs - Belonging and love - Safety - Physical needs
Hospice
31. A morpheme that can be a word on its own
Free morpheme
Binocular cues
Kleinfelter Syndrome; male
Cooing
32. What is: when a person or animal responds to a neutral stimulus with a meaningful one
Kleinfelter Syndrome; male
Classical conditioning
The cerebrum
Constant
33. Which lobe is related to vision?
Ferdinand Lamaze
Cellular Theory
Occipital lobe
Timbre
34. What is the characteristic that: you may be more interested in a person - rather than what she is saying?
Bargaining
Cross-modal perception
Visual cliff
Selective
35. 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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36. What is: the type of thought related to numerical and intellectual puzzles--with both quick & creative responses?
Fluid intelligence
As they age
The penis doesn't grow and breasts may develop.
John Bowlby's Attachment Theory
37. What is: the ability to associate something from one area of knowledge - and use that to determine or imagine what it is like in other aspects?
Smell
Cross-modal perception
Independent variable
Dialectical perspective
38. The study of the aging process
Six months
Inner ear
Gerontology
Teratology
39. Biological theories of aging: the number of cells that have problems or mutations that increase w/ age
Genetic Mutation
Fluid intelligence
Acceptance
Oral contraceptives
40. What are the five areas of Apgar Rating - with scores of 0-2 in each?
Appearance - pulse - grimace (reflex) - activity - and respiration
Habituation
Best friend
Babbling
41. What is the term to describe the thinking part of health?
Up to 6 months of observation by doctors
Mental health
B.F. Skinner
Drugs - diseases (like HIV - rubella) - and pollutants (mercury - radiation - etc)
42. What part of the central nervous system controls all necessary functions of the body?
First trimester
The infant wants to be in proximity of the person who cares for them as a form of self-preservation. If a child feels that their caregiver is nearby and attentive - they feel confident to explore their surroundings. If not - they feel anxious and ove
The brain
William James
43. How is extinction best achieved?
Down syndrome
Gradually through shaping
Noise
Positive Correlation
44. A lower number of the correlation coefficient - closer to the number zero shows a:
Weak correlation
Osteoporosis
Mental health
The brain stem
45. What is another name for a newborn?
Neonate
5
Adrenal glands
Abortion
46. Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs consists of which steps?
Self-actualization - Esteem needs - Belonging and love - Safety - Physical needs
Class inclusion
Fetal alcohol syndrome
The right hand - right eye - and speech
47. What regulates internal temperature - eating - sleeping - drinking - emotions - and sexual activity?
Hypothalamus
Miscarriages or stillbirths
Vygotsky
Short attention span
48. In the Harlow experiment: between the wire monkey+bottle - and cloth monkey+no bottle - which fake mother did the babies prefer?
Babbling
Virginia Apgar - or Apgar Rating
Self-efficacy
The cloth monkey
49. What is: your interactions with others in social situations
Zone of Proximal Development
Social health
Selective
Teratology
50. What is the least developed part of a newborn (growth is not complete)?
The brain/the cerebral cortex
Family therapy
Avoid punishment
Gonads