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DSST Lifespan Developmental Psychology
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Why is autism rare in children for the first 2 1/2 years?
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2. What is: hatred and fear of homosexuals?
Parallel play
Thalamus
Homophobia
Cerebellum
3. Does a gamete (reproductive) cell have full or half set of chromosomes?
Conceive at younger ages
Automatic - selective - contextual - and creative
The cloth monkey
Half (23)
4. When is anoxia a problem in births?
The meanlinkk of utterance (how long their sentences are)
Long labors or birth complications
Creative
Social development or social cognition
5. Who made the first IQ test?
Slowed growth - body/face malfunctions - nervous system disorders - mental retardation.
Alfred Binet
Middle ear
Telegraphic speech
6. Read pages 22-25 for charts: Piaget's Stages of Development and Freud's Psychosexual Stages
Endocrine system
Schema
...
Six months
7. What is: areas of the body which - when touched - lead to sexual arousal?
Erogenous zones
Sweet - bitter - salty - sour
Classical conditioning works more to explain reflexive or unconscious reactions - Operant conditioning works to explain elective actions and reactions
The brain/the cerebral cortex
8. Which part of the ANS is the calming part of the system?
Parasympathetic
Intrinsic reinforcer
Limbic system
Preconventional Morality
9. What is: located in the limbic system - with primary function to store memories?
Convergent thinking
Experimental research
Hippocampus
Bias
10. What is: the gland that controls release of hormones from the gonads?
Punishment
Pituitary gland
Frontal lobe
Slowed growth - body/face malfunctions - nervous system disorders - mental retardation.
11. What is the term for identical twins?
The cerebrum
Osteoporosis
Monozygotic twins
Through actions - doing what you believe is correct
12. What is: method of contraception by having no direct contact with partner's genitals?
Abstinence
Resilient child
Dyscalcula
Alternative - or artificial - insemination
13. True or False: Kohlberg believed that you go through each step of moral development one @ a time and could not skip them.
Cellular Theory
Emotional health
Pitch
True
14. A morpheme that can be a word on its own
Women - men
Cooing
Irritability - social responsiveness - and activity level
Free morpheme
15. What is the drug to cause an abortion in the first 9 weeks of pregnancy?
Young Adult
IUD
RU-486
Reciprocal determinism
16. A type of research done inside of a lab - selected to monitor specific biological changes in individuals by using expensive and sophisticated machinery
Commissures
Behaviorism
Punishment
Laboratory observation
17. How much alcohol is the safe amount to consume during pregnancy?
None!!
Abstinence
Babbling
Gilligan
18. What is the conception alternative where fertilization of the egg is done outside the body - and then transferred back into the body?
In vitro fertilization
Figurative language
The more accurate the result
Resilient child
19. How do you fix the problem of mother's cells attacking the baby's?
Parallel play
Abstinence
Injections
Jean Piaget
20. What glands affect the mood - energy level - and stress?
Longitudinal fissure
4-9
Harry Harlow
Adrenal glands
21. A term used to describe something similar in structure or organization
Classical conditioning
Qualitative
5 & 6
First trimester
22. What is: where the lens changes its curves to help the eye focus?
Accommodation
The penis doesn't grow and breasts may develop.
Ethics
Self-actualization - Esteem needs - Belonging and love - Safety - Physical needs
23. Once the disease strikes - an individual w/ Alzheimer's disease usually has their life expectancy is:
Experimental group and control group
Cross-modal perception
Cut in half
99%
24. Observing someone's behavior and basing our own behavior on it
Spiritual - emotional - mental - and social health
If the mom and child have different blood types - the mom's cells can attack the baby.
Autism
Modeling
25. When people of different ages are studied at one particular time
Semantics
Mental age/Chronological age - x 100
Cross Sectional Study
Sudden Infant Death Syndrome
26. What is the name for depth perception cues made with both eyes?
Six months
The cerebrum
Projection
Binocular cues
27. Which receptor is used for color vision?
4-9
As they age
Creative
Cones
28. How many PAIRS of chromosomes do body cells have?
Psychological Tests
Infant
23 pairs
Self-actualization - Esteem needs - Belonging and love - Safety - Physical needs
29. Which stage of development is: Ego Integrity vs. Despair? (what they have done with their life)
Subject
90%
Selera
Old Age
30. A collection of data from all cases or people in the chosen set
Socialization
Down syndrome
A census
Mental health
31. Environment in which two (or more) children sit side by side - or near each other - and play without interacting with the other child or trying to influence them in any way. Most children engage in this type of enviornment.
Parallel play
Stage 5
Bargaining
Bisexual
32. What is the name for the awareness of external and internal events?
Social learning theory
Consciousness
Virginia Apgar - or Apgar Rating
Alzheimer's Disease
33. Disagreed w/ Kohlberg's Theory of Moral Development because his subjects were mainly male
First trimester
Authoritarian
Gilligan
Positive reinforcer
34. If a test measures what is meant to measure it is considered what?
Bandura
Classical conditioning works more to explain reflexive or unconscious reactions - Operant conditioning works to explain elective actions and reactions
Independent variable
Valid
35. What is the chance of a baby having PKU?
Reaction Formation
Condom
Neonate
1 in 14 -000
36. What system is made up of the hypothalamus and other glands?
Random assignment
Pituitary gland
Oral contraceptives
Endocrine system
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?
Natural observation
Socialization
Cross-modal perception
50%
38. Level 2 of Kohlberg's Theory of Moral Development includes which stages
Erogenous zones
Prenatal development
3 & 4
Wilhelm Wundt
39. What is the medical means to terminate a pregnancy?
Natural observation
Abortion
Encoding the information - represnting the information - and retrieving information from memory.
Pons
40. What is: the theory centered on behavior; see person as blank slate upon which impressions of experiences can be recorded.
Behavioral
Conservation
Hypothalamus
Class inclusion
41. Children that are raised on the Kibbutz will often:
Have more bland personalities and often difficult for them to create and maintain intimate relationships as they have a lack of emotional depth
Dialectical perspective
Id - Ego - Super Ego
Spermicides
42. What is the study done to show that infants have depth perception?
Limbic system
Wilhelm Wundt
Assimilation
Visual cliff
43. What is the name of the scientist known as the father of genetics and inheritance?
Positive Correlation
Accommodation
Positive reinforcer
Mendel
44. There are usually two groups in an experiment - titled:
Anger (Emotion)
Operant Conditioning
Genes
Experimental group and control group
45. The integrator between the outer and inner worlds - as well as the id and the superego. Gives continuity and consistency to behavior by providing a personal point of reference - which relates to the events of the past and actions of the present and o
Dyslexia
Schema
Social aspect of language
Ego
46. Who developed the theory of social development?
Cerebral cortex
Middle-age Adult
Middle childhood
Vygotsky
47. Stage in which whether you will be punished or not determines what is moral or not - also called the punishment and obiedience phase
Mendel
Stage 1
Pupil
Kohlberg
48. What is the ability to identify correctly something encountered before?
Elaboration
Recognition
Around age two
Modeling
49. What is the most extreme outcome of a woman drinking during her pregnancy?
99%
Fetal death
Oral contraceptives
Young-old
50. What is being able to reproduce knowledge from memory?
Recall
Sudden Infant Death Syndrome
Rh positive
Physical needs