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DSST Lifespan Developmental Psychology

Subjects : dsst, psychology
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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. What is the term for the death of a child under one year - for no apparent reason?






2. What is: expression of your maleness or femaleness on a daily basis?






3. What are the four components of psychosocial health?






4. What is the variable that the experimenter controls?






5. Self-esteem begins forming in:






6. The average of a data set






7. Pavlovs famous classical conditioning dog experiment.






8. What is: structures in the cerebral cortex related to memory and emotion?






9. Theory by Bandura; the interaction of a person's personality - the environment - and the behavior.






10. What controls breathing and heart rate?






11. Which lobe is related to hearing?






12. A child that bounces back from a difficult situation






13. By the time they reach middle childhood - most girls will identify with one and only one _______.






14. What is: any pill designed to prevent pregnancy?






15. 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?






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






17. Aside from learning disabilities - what physical problem do Kleinfelter people have?

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18. 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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19. What is the perception characteristic that: if you have heard a movie is scary - you might be more inclined to get scared?






20. Individual sounds w/ in a word






21. What attention disorders also interfere with the learning process?






22. The process of unassociating the condition with the response






23. What are the three different types of teratogens?






24. What is: small device to block access to the uterus; left in place with spermicide for 6-8 hours - in order to kill any remaining sperm?






25. Defense mechanism: a type of displacement - a redirection of the feeling into a socially productive activity






26. Why isn't an IQ test a good indicator for children over long periods of time?






27. A type of conditioning in which a person associates an action with a consequence






28. What is the conception alternative where fertilization of the egg is done outside the body - and then transferred back into the body?






29. Where nursing care is given meant to maximize the quality of life for someone who is dying






30. Who created functionalism?






31. What is: attraction to the same sex?






32. A medical doctor with a degree who specializes in psychotherapy - who can prescribe drugs






33. A child that is always in a hurry






34. What is another term for the system of hearing?






35. Which though process is follower thinking?






36. What is: the gland that controls release of hormones from the gonads?






37. Why is autism rare in children for the first 2 1/2 years?

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38. What do doctors agree is the best way to feed babies?






39. Observing someone's behavior and basing our own behavior on it






40. What is the chance of having a boy or girl - according to Mendel's experiments in genetics?






41. What is: the theory that all people are inherently good and motivated to achieve their full potential






42. What is: the ear's interpretation of a sound's frequency






43. The ethical component of the personality and provides the moral standards by which the ego operates






44. The scientific study of words and sentences






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






46. What is: the realization that objects stay the same even when they are made to look different?






47. Children that are raised on the Kibbutz are used to study the effects of what?






48. 1 -3 -4 -5 -7 -8 -10 what is the median?






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






50. If a mother catches rubella in first trimester - what is the chance that the fetus is affected?