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DSST Lifespan Developmental Psychology
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1. What is the term for low IQ and mental age of about 4 years old?
The brain
B.F. Skinner
Mentally retarded
Hurried-child
2. Which stage of development is: Initiative vs. Guilt? (trying different roles)
Cross-modal perception
Five
Preschooler
Belonging and love
3. What is: an M.D. who specializes in OB-GYN?
Selective attention
Obstetrician-gynecologist
Proximodistal
Phonemes
4. Which part of the ANS is the calming part of the system?
Parasympathetic
Teratology
Young-old
The penis doesn't grow and breasts may develop.
5. Defense mechanism: you deny your feelings and come up with ways to justify your behavior
Informed consent
Cerebral anoxia
Classical conditioning works more to explain reflexive or unconscious reactions - Operant conditioning works to explain elective actions and reactions
Rationalization
6. Second element: The presence of someone who knows more in an area - like a parent - teacher - coach - etc.?
Sound waves
More Knowledgeable Other (MKO)
Preconventional - conventional - postconventional
No correlation
7. Stage in which whether you will be punished or not determines what is moral or not - also called the punishment and obiedience phase
Papillae
Prenatal development
Pupil
Stage 1
8. What is: method of contraception by having no direct contact with partner's genitals?
Virginia Apgar - or Apgar Rating
Divergent thinkers
Echolalia
Abstinence
9. What are: drugs taken within three days to prevent pregnancy from instances such as no protection - or a broken condom?
Emergency contraception
Monocular cues
John Bowlby's Attachment Theory
Informed consent
10. Piaget believed that the individual actively constructs knowledge about the world--what is the term for this?
Cerebral cortex
Cooing
Cognitive theorist
Double blind
11. Does a somatic (body) cell have a full - or half - set of chromosomes?
Adolescent Egocentrism
Full (46)
Independent variable
Endocrine system
12. What is the opening of the iris - which looks black?
Abstinence
Hippocampus
Pupil
Biological
13. What is the very critical period of the first 3 months in the womb?
Lewis Terman
Laboratory observation
Prenatal development
Extinction
14. What is: the number of full wavelengths that pass through a point in a given amount of time
Down syndrome
Frequency
Convergent thinking
Spermicides
15. Biological theories of aging: the number of cells that have problems or mutations that increase w/ age
Operation
Content validity
Genetic Mutation
Cooing
16. Which lobe is related to hearing?
Appearance - pulse - grimace (reflex) - activity - and respiration
Alternative - or artificial - insemination
Fetal alcohol syndrome
Temporal lobe
17. What regulates internal temperature - eating - sleeping - drinking - emotions - and sexual activity?
Longitudinal fissure
Sampling
Hypothalamus
Punishment
18. What is the main symptom of hyperactivity?
Fetal Alcohol Syndrome
A will
Weak correlation
Short attention span
19. Contains the psychic content related to the primitive instincts of the body - notably sex and aggression - functioning entirely according to the pleasure-pain principle - seeking either immediate fulfillment or settling for a compromise fulfillment
6-12
Nurture
They were not scientifically performed
Id
20. What sends commands to all other parts of the body?
Correlation Research
Skin appearance - 'age spots' - hair
The brain stem
Gradually through shaping
21. What does STDs stand for - including AIDS and herpes?
Self-efficacy
Social learning theory
Cerebral palsy
Sexually transmitted diseases
22. Those who are mentally retarded are least likely to also have WHAT condition?
Recognition
Cerebral palsy
Hour of love
Consciousness
23. In a kibbutz - the real parents of children may see them for one hour a day - a time referred to as the __________.
Hour of love
The cerebrum
Fetal Alcohol Syndrome
The brain stem
24. What is the conception alternative where semen is deposited into the body via a thin tube?
Syphillis and rubella
Drugs - diseases (like HIV - rubella) - and pollutants (mercury - radiation - etc)
Young-old
Alternative - or artificial - insemination
25. How do you fix the problem of mother's cells attacking the baby's?
Authoritarian
Injections
Erogenous zones
Automatic
26. What is: dynamic blend of our experiences - heredity - environment - etc. which determines how we react to problems/issues?
Fetal alcohol syndrome
Absolute threshold
Laboratory observation
Personality
27. By the time they reach middle childhood - most girls will identify with one and only one _______.
Pitch
Best friend
Perception
Limbic system
28. What is: your feelings and reactions
Loudness
Experimental group and control group
Stage 2
Emotional health
29. After how many cigarettes will the fetus definitely have problems--with a 50% greater risk of childhood cancer?
Five
Social health
Nature vs. nurture
Resilient child
30. A collection of data from all cases or people in the chosen set
Young Adult
A census
Binocular cues
Multiple caretakers
31. When people are followed and studied over a long period of time and checked up on at certain points
Figurative language
Sampling
Longitudinal Study
Peer group
32. What section of the nervous system is responsible for the 'fight or flight' response?
Mentally retarded
Autonomic Nervous System
Schema
Social learning theory
33. Children that are raised on the Kibbutz will often:
Closure
Behavioral
Have more bland personalities and often difficult for them to create and maintain intimate relationships as they have a lack of emotional depth
Sampling
34. What side of the N/N debate means that a child will be born with whatever disposition - tastes - personality they were 'meant' to have; believe that there are bad seeds.
Egocentric behavior
Nurture
Nature
Cooing
35. Stage in which a person is concerned w/ how their action might affect society; the social contract orientation
Occipital - temporal - frontal - and parietal.
Stage 5
Hippocampus
Cerebral cortex
36. Parenting styles: respects individually - but tries to instill social values
Self-actualization
Authoritative
Gentle birth
Psychometrics
37. What is the main relay station for incoming sensory signals to the cerebral cortex - and outgoing motor signals from it?
Syphillis and rubella
Nurture
Thalamus
Hippocampus
38. Second step in Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs
Safety
Sympathetic nervous system
Endocrine system
Gender conservation
39. When do the two fontanels harden?
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40. What are the three things to monitor - to measure temperament in infants?
Depth perception
Creative
Irritability - social responsiveness - and activity level
Heterosexual
41. Pavlovs famous classical conditioning dog experiment.
Bell would ring - then feed the dogs - Dogs would salivate when given food - Over time dogs began to salivate simply at ring of bell
Classical conditioning
Safety
Fontanels
42. What is the most extreme outcome of a woman drinking during her pregnancy?
50%
Fetal Alcohol Syndrome
Fetal death
Sampling
43. What is a sometimes-fatal disease occuring from the excessive use of tampons - or leaving a diaphragm in - for longer than prescribed time?
Egocentric behavior
Amniocentesis
Toxic shock syndrome
Permissive
44. What is the ring of muscles that makes up the colored part of the eye?
Iris
Morphemes
Kibbutz
Social development or social cognition
45. What is: the type of thought that has to do with factual information--trivia - vocabulary - science - history?
Negative Correlation
Crystallized intelligence
Acceptance
Bound morpheme
46. What is the study done to show that infants have depth perception?
Dialectical perspective
In vitro fertilization
Visual cliff
Zygote
47. Final stage in the Kubler-Ross's Stages of Dying: 'I'm ready'
Acceptance
RU-486
The brain
Olfactory epithelium
48. If you are A positive blood - what is that in terms of Rh factor?
Full (46)
Rh positive
Content validity
Childhood depression
49. What are: vibrations in the air that we receive through the ear to be processed?
Id
No
Sound waves
Encoding the information - represnting the information - and retrieving information from memory.
50. What is: the ear's interpretation of a sound's frequency
Binocular cues
Breast-feeding
Pitch
Humanistic