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DSST Lifespan Developmental Psychology

Subjects : dsst, psychology
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Anything which makes a behavior more likely to occur






2. 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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3. What is: generalizations about each gender - such as that men are aggressive and logical - and women are nurturing and emotional






4. What is: focusing attention on a small amount of information?






5. Who taught women breathing procedures to get through childbirth - including panting?






6. What is: the theory focused on the individual's unconscious motivations?






7. How is IQ calculated?






8. Theory that every function in the child's cultural development appears twice: first between people - then inside the child.






9. What syndrome occurs when someone two X and one Y chromosome...and what gender does this make?






10. Deaf children will often be more proficient at communicating through _______ than do hearing infants - often being able to sign at ten months old






11. Where a group of people live together and the children of all the people are raised by one or two people






12. What does the left half of the brain control?






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






14. Biological theories of aging: as our bodies age - our immune systems become less effective at fighting disease - stress - etc.






15. A collection of data from all cases or people in the chosen set






16. Does a gamete (reproductive) cell have full or half set of chromosomes?






17. Is there currently a cure for Alzheimer's disease?






18. Cultural bias not generally known across all subcultures






19. Categories of old age: 85+






20. The name most associated with operant conditioning is who?






21. What is the term for fraternal twins?






22. What disorder causes a person to have difficulty concentration - be easily distracted - or constantly in motion?






23. What is the term for identical twins?






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






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






26. What is: sexual self-stimulation or masturbation?






27. A type of research done inside of a lab - selected to monitor specific biological changes in individuals by using expensive and sophisticated machinery






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






29. Stages of friendship: two way - fair weathered






30. Biological theories of aging: we only have a certain number of cells - which are programmed to only replicate so many times before they are finished and the body begins to deteriorate






31. What is: a statistical measure of typical scores for categories of information?






32. In the Harlow experiment: between the wire monkey+bottle - and cloth monkey+no bottle - which fake mother did the babies prefer?






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






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






35. What is: the method to prevent an egg and sperm from being able to access each other?






36. Who created the first scientific psychology laboratory?






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






38. Stage in which you see the right action as what satisfies your personal needs; a person becomes aware of two different viewpoints






39. Third step in Maslow's Hierarchy of needs in which you may want to meet needs of belongings and love through relationships






40. What part of the central nervous system controls all necessary functions of the body?






41. What is another name for a sound wave's amplitude?






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






43. What is the term for lack of responsiveness to other people?






44. How do you fix the problem of mother's cells attacking the baby's?






45. Individual sounds w/ in a word






46. Types of child play in chronological order:






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






48. What determines physical traits and is inherited from one or both parents?






49. How does the pupil work?






50. List the levels (in order) of Kohlberg's Theory of Moral Development