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DSST Lifespan Developmental Psychology
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. What is: attraction to the opposite sex?
Cephalocaudal
Social development or social cognition
Heterosexual
Adrenal glands
2. What is being able to reproduce knowledge from memory?
Recall
Gonads
Assimilation
Closure
3. The ethical component of the personality and provides the moral standards by which the ego operates
Content validity
Vygotsky
The Premack Principle
Super Ego
4. First step in Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs such as food water and shelter
Physical needs
Amplitude
Through actions - doing what you believe is correct
Constant
5. What is: the theory centered on behavior; see person as blank slate upon which impressions of experiences can be recorded.
Behavioral
None!!
Gentle birth
Olfactory sense
6. Where are genes carried?
Extrinsic reinforcer
They were not scientifically performed
First trimester
On chromosomes
7. What is: the difference made to one's mind by the process of assimilation?
Fluid intelligence
Sympathetic nervous system
Erik Erikson
Accommodation
8. What is the simple type of learning for getting used to something?
3-7
Psychoanalytical
Habituation
It measures a child against their peers - in that moment
9. What is the ability to identify correctly something encountered before?
Recognition
Esteem needs
Organ of corti
Fit in
10. What is: the understanding of more advanced classification; that some sets are also sub-sets of a larger class?
A census
Temporal lobe
23 pairs
Class inclusion
11. Rang the bell each time he fed the dog; eventually how early did the dogs start salivating?
As soon as the bell was rung
Humanistic Theorists
Old-old
Elaboration
12. 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.
Selective attention
Crystallized intelligence
Parallel play
Spermicides
13. A type of research done inside of a lab - selected to monitor specific biological changes in individuals by using expensive and sophisticated machinery
Full (46)
Belonging and love
Laboratory observation
Cross Sectional Study
14. Stage in which whether you will be punished or not determines what is moral or not - also called the punishment and obiedience phase
Infertility
Convergent thinking
Stage 1
Childhood depression
15. What is: the process of working something out in your head; shows the difference between young children (act and try things out) and older (can do things in their heads)
Biological
Intestate
Operation
Humanistic
16. Dying w/o a will
Organ of corti
Intestate
Strong correlation
Cross Sectional Study
17. A person who uses ______ has a stated position - but also acknowledges that it may change over time.
Dialectical perspective
Avoid punishment
Echolalia
12+
18. Who coined the Theory of Moral Development?
Kohlberg
3 & 4
Cognitive improvement
Toddler
19. What is the chance of having a boy or girl - according to Mendel's experiments in genetics?
50%
Convergent thinking
Watching their parents
Stage 3
20. Anything which makes a behavior more likely to occur
Reinforcer
Cellular Theory
Cross Sectional Study
Dura mater
21. What is: the elated feeling adolescents have - that they are immune to risks - mortality and probability; false sense of security thinking they will never fall or get caught.
Invincibility fable
Social learning theory
Genetic Mutation
Punishment
22. Who created the first scientific psychology laboratory?
Gender role stereotypes
Dizygotic twins
Wilhelm Wundt
Accommodation
23. What is: when a person or animal responds to a neutral stimulus with a meaningful one
Classical conditioning
Telegraphic speech
Miscarriages or stillbirths
Diaphragm
24. What is the rating system to judge a baby's functionality when first born?
The cerebrum
Spiritual health
Virginia Apgar - or Apgar Rating
Content validity
25. What is the white part of the eye that protects and manages the shape of the eye?
Hollow phrases
Selera
4
The penis doesn't grow and breasts may develop.
26. Fourth stage in the Kubler-Ross's Stages of Dying: 'There's nothing I can do about this'
Gender roles
Psychological Tests
Preparatory Depression
Encoding the information - represnting the information - and retrieving information from memory.
27. Experiment when none of the doctors - researchers - and participants know who is getting the real drug
Crystallized intelligence
Dizygotic twins
Double blind
Elaboration
28. What is the part in the back of the eye that includes receptors called rods and cones?
Full (46)
Retina
Correlational research
Oral contraceptives
29. What is the ring of muscles that makes up the colored part of the eye?
Iris
The cloth monkey
Crystallized intelligence
Self-esteem
30. What is the perception characteristic that: you don't have to think about it for it to happen?
Median
3 & 4
Automatic
Fluid intelligence and crystal intelligence
31. What houses memories and controls our responses to different sensory signals?
Parallel play
The cerebrum
Contraception
Emergency contraception
32. List the levels (in order) of Kohlberg's Theory of Moral Development
Preconventional - conventional - postconventional
Autism
Loudness
The Montessori Method
33. True or False: Kohlberg believed that you go through each step of moral development one @ a time and could not skip them.
True
Natural observation
Zygote
Mendel
34. Rogers and Maslow are both:
Smell
Psychoanalytic theory
Lens
Humanistic Theorists
35. Which lobe is related to vision?
3-7
Self-report data
Kubler-Ross's Stages of Dying
Occipital lobe
36. A reinforcer that comes from within the individual--something emotional.
Correlation coefficient
It measures a child against their peers - in that moment
Clinical psychologist
Intrinsic reinforcer
37. What most-extreme fate does syphillis often cause in infants?
Correlation coefficient
Sexual identity
Miscarriages or stillbirths
Hour of love
38. Parenting styles: respects individually - but tries to instill social values
Gene
Operant Conditioning
Authoritative
Vestibular sense
39. What determines physical traits and is inherited from one or both parents?
Psychoanalytic theory
Monozygotic twins
Gene
Cross-modal perception
40. What are the two different classifications of intelligence?
Phonemes
Fluid intelligence and crystal intelligence
Peer group
Gilligan
41. A baby repeating what you just said
Not fully developed; but can distinguish color - track movement - and bright objects.
Echolalia
Pituitary gland
1 & 2
42. Age at which most children will identify specific 'best-friends'
Intestate
Correlational research
Correlation coefficient
10
43. What is the name for the bundles of axons - used to communicate between the two halves of brain?
Subjects may be dishonest w/ their answers
Behavioral
Because at birth cells aren't well connected (lacking in myelin - or nerve insulation)
Commissures
44. Which receptor is more sensitive to light - but is not used to view color?
Stage 4
Rods
The Montessori Method
Cephalocaudal
45. An environment where children live and attend school
Obstetrician-gynecologist - family practitioner - or midwife
Adolescent Egocentrism
Peer group
First trimester
46. The scientific study of words and sentences
Long labors or birth complications
Psychological maltreatment
Semantics
Peer group
47. What system is made up of the hypothalamus and other glands?
Epinephrine and norepinephrine
Endocrine system
Projection
Occipital - temporal - frontal - and parietal.
48. What is: the most developed - and largest (80%) - part of the brain?
Psychometrics
Francis Bacon--16th century
Cerebral cortex
Id - Ego - Super Ego
49. Child's realization their sex will stay the same
Figurative language
Gender conservation
Cochlea
Young Adult
50. How much alcohol is the safe amount to consume during pregnancy?
Monocular cues
Occipital - temporal - frontal - and parietal.
None!!
Dependent variable