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DSST Lifespan Developmental Psychology
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1. Which stage of development is: Ego Integrity vs. Despair? (what they have done with their life)
Old Age
Set high standards - assist along the way
Amplitude
Contextual
2. What is the main relay station for incoming sensory signals to the cerebral cortex - and outgoing motor signals from it?
Thalamus
Up to 6 months of observation by doctors
Peer group
Stage 3
3. Means that the participants must know the content of the experiment and be warned of any risk or harm
Informed consent
Three
Survey
Sound waves
4. What are the four components of psychosocial health?
Spiritual - emotional - mental - and social health
Cesarean birth
Family therapy
Cerebrospinal fluid
5. What are the three different types of teratogens?
Infertility
Encoding the information - represnting the information - and retrieving information from memory.
Drugs - diseases (like HIV - rubella) - and pollutants (mercury - radiation - etc)
Cephalocaudal
6. Who was the psychoanalyst who documented stages of emotional growth in regards to babies?
Behavioral
Erik Erikson
Extrinsic reinforcer
Dependent variable
7. How much are the eyes developed in newborns?
Personality
Spiritual health
Freud
Not fully developed; but can distinguish color - track movement - and bright objects.
8. The process of unassociating the condition with the response
Kohlberg
Amniocentesis
Long labors or birth complications
Extinction
9. Anything which makes a behavior more likely to occur
Autoimmune Theory
Reinforcer
10
The cerebrum
10. What is: when a person or animal responds to a neutral stimulus with a meaningful one
Classical conditioning
Olfactory epithelium
Maslow
Full (46)
11. Age at which children begin to share their toys and interact w/ one another - associative play
Classical conditioning
3
4-9
Automatic - selective - contextual - and creative
12. Which receptor is used for color vision?
You need two - one from each parent - to conceive.
Cones
Automatic
Elaboration
13. Dying w/o a will
Watching their parents
Homosexual
Classical conditioning
Intestate
14. What is the part of the ear that includes the pinna and external auditory canal?
The more accurate the result
Preschooler
Outer ear
Zygote
15. Level 2 of Kohlberg's Theory of Moral Development includes which stages
Self-esteem
Mendel
5 & 6
3 & 4
16. What is: the bumps on top of the tongue that contain taste buds?
Papillae
Genes
Six or seven months
Frontal lobe
17. What syndrome occurs when someone two X and one Y chromosome...and what gender does this make?
Stage 1
Kleinfelter Syndrome; male
Endocrine system
Erik Erikson
18. Theory by Bandura; the interaction of a person's personality - the environment - and the behavior.
Syphillis and rubella
Cognitive theorist
Oral contraceptives
Reciprocal determinism
19. When someone sees an incomplete form - they fill in the pieces and perceive it as it would be that way. What Gestalt principle is this an example of?
Permissive
Closure
Cerebral palsy
Natural prepared childbirth
20. Did a longitudinal study that showed that smart kids are happy adults
Sublimation
Stimulus generalization
...
Lewis Terman
21. Which part of the ANS is the calming part of the system?
Self-efficacy
Francis Bacon--16th century
Parasympathetic
Sympathetic nervous system
22. What are the four lobes of the brain?
Modeling
Recall
Regression
Occipital - temporal - frontal - and parietal.
23. How is extinction best achieved?
Morality of Justice
Prenatal development
Gradually through shaping
Temporal lobe
24. When do the two fontanels harden?
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25. What percentage of children are affected by hyperactivity?
Half (23)
Francis Bacon--16th century
Sigmund Freud
Three percent
26. What kind of childbirth did Dr. Grantly Dick Read start teaching?
Extrinsic reinforcer
Natural prepared childbirth
Middle ear
Abstinence
27. If a test measures what is meant to measure it is considered what?
Cognitive theorist
Valid
Young-old
They can be coached into learning a type of test--do better or worse - etc.
28. Final stage in the Kubler-Ross's Stages of Dying: 'I'm ready'
Mental health
Acceptance
Lens
Behaviorism
29. Why isn't an IQ test a good indicator for children over long periods of time?
Operation
Random assignment
They can be coached into learning a type of test--do better or worse - etc.
Belonging and love
30. What is: your thoughts about what gives life purpose--the meaning of life - religion
Spiritual health
Attention Deficit Disorder and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
Bargaining
Three
31. What is: the moment an ovum/egg is fertilized by sperm?
Figurative language
Conception
Alfred Binet
Explicit role instruction
32. Fourth stage in the Kubler-Ross's Stages of Dying: 'There's nothing I can do about this'
Resilient child
Put babies on their backs to sleep - and not have anything extra (toys - pillows etc) in the bed or crib.
Toddler
Preparatory Depression
33. Why does a gamete have a half set of chromosomes?
Because at birth cells aren't well connected (lacking in myelin - or nerve insulation)
Self-concept
You need two - one from each parent - to conceive.
Self-esteem
34. Stage in which a person is concerned w/ how their action might affect society; the social contract orientation
The more accurate the result
2
Cognitive improvement
Stage 5
35. What is the chance of a baby having PKU?
1 in 14 -000
The infant wants to be in proximity of the person who cares for them as a form of self-preservation. If a child feels that their caregiver is nearby and attentive - they feel confident to explore their surroundings. If not - they feel anxious and ove
Correlational research
The cloth monkey
36. What is the scientific name for the sense of smell?
Gender conservation
Classical conditioning
Olfactory sense
Peer group
37. Who did the study between stimulus and response with dogs; and what did he discover?
Pavlov; classical conditioning
Reaction Formation
Biological; Behavioral; Cognitive; Humanistic; Psychoanalytical; Structuralism; Functionalism; Nature vs. Nurture
6-12
38. What are the two parts responsible for bending light and focusing it in the back of the eye?
Thalamus
Permissive
No
Cornea and lens
39. Where nursing care is given meant to maximize the quality of life for someone who is dying
Positive reinforcer
Egocentric behavior
Hospice
Full (46)
40. Id - Ego - and Super Ego were all founded by who?
Childhood depression
Closure
Lewis Terman
Sigmund Freud
41. What is the medical means to terminate a pregnancy?
Abortion
Gradually through shaping
Proximodistal
Intrinsic reinforcer
42. A signal to society that certain rules have changed - this person is no longer a child
Rite of Passage
The cerebrum
Mental health
Bell would ring - then feed the dogs - Dogs would salivate when given food - Over time dogs began to salivate simply at ring of bell
43. What is the term for low IQ and mental age of about 4 years old?
Cut in half
Mental age/Chronological age - x 100
Temporal lobe
Mentally retarded
44. When one variable increase - another variable increases. We call this a what?
Divergent thinkers
Avoid punishment
Positive Correlation
Fontanels
45. 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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46. Children are most likely to achieve if parents:
Set high standards - assist along the way
Cooing
Developmental norm
Put babies on their backs to sleep - and not have anything extra (toys - pillows etc) in the bed or crib.
47. What is: psychological definition for having more equal personality characteristics between male&female?
Androgynous
Depo-Provera
Gene
Cerebral cortex
48. Chomsky believed that the ability to develop language skills was inherited in ______.
Wilhelm Wundt
Divergent thinking
Genes
William James
49. What coordinates all movements and muscles?
Social learning theory
Hypothalamus
Cerebellum
Toddler
50. When does language development begin?
Six months
5
Sexual identity
Adolescent