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DSST Lifespan Developmental Psychology

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1. Pavlovs famous classical conditioning dog experiment.






2. What is the part in the back of the eye that includes receptors called rods and cones?






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






4. 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?






5. Who founded the Hierarchy of Needs theory?






6. What is caused by one extra chromosome in the number 21?






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






8. What does the right half of the brain control?






9. How does the pupil work?






10. What is the main difference between classical and operant conditioning?






11. Which stage of development is: Generativity vs. Stagnation? (giving to the next generation)






12. Once the disease strikes - an individual w/ Alzheimer's disease usually has their life expectancy is:






13. What is a learning disability in math - where concepts are learned one day and forgotten the next?






14. Which lobe is related to body sensations?






15. What is the name of the largest commissure?






16. Stages of friendship: autonomous - interdependent






17. What two things make up the central nervous system?






18. What is: the part of the ear inside the cochlea; contains sensors that change energy into impulses to be decoded by the brain?






19. What is the thought process that considers an idea or belief (thesis) and acknowledges the idea's opposite (antithesis)?






20. What is: psychological definition for having more equal personality characteristics between male&female?






21. What is: an M.D. who specializes in OB-GYN?






22. What is the perception characteristic that: you don't have to think about it for it to happen?






23. A child that bounces back from a difficult situation






24. What is the opening of the iris - which looks black?






25. What is a sometimes-fatal disease occuring from the excessive use of tampons - or leaving a diaphragm in - for longer than prescribed time?






26. What is the method in which a variable and constant are use to test theories?






27. Defense mechanism: hiding the feelings and not acknowledging them






28. How was the visual cliff study conducted?

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






30. What is the part of the ear that includes the oval window - cochlea - and organ of Corti?






31. Who created the first scientific psychology laboratory?






32. What is: relating new information to something familiar






33. Which lobe is related to hearing?






34. What are the four areas of taste that taste-buds recognize?






35. What is: attraction to the same sex?






36. Children learn and form their conscience and thoughts of what is acceptable behavior from what?






37. The process of unassociating the condition with the response






38. Categories of old age: 85+






39. What is a fertilized ovum or egg?






40. In a case study - a single individual called a _____ is intensely studied






41. What are: general term for the reproductive organs in a male or female?






42. What is the term for low IQ and mental age of about 4 years old?






43. True or False: Kohlberg believed that you go through each step of moral development one @ a time and could not skip them.






44. What is: hatred and fear of homosexuals?






45. How is IQ calculated?






46. The first experiment of classical conditioning was done by who?






47. The smallest unit of a word which has meaning - may be bound or free






48. Stages of friendship: intimate






49. What is the name for the two halves of the brain?






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