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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?
Mentally retarded
The cerebrum
Functionalism
Stimulus generalization
2. Final stage in the Kubler-Ross's Stages of Dying: 'I'm ready'
Acceptance
First trimester
Toxic shock syndrome
Midwife
3. What is the characteristic that: you may be more interested in a person - rather than what she is saying?
Selective
Id - Ego - Super Ego
Fluid intelligence and crystal intelligence
Alfred Binet
4. What is the term for the death of a child under one year - for no apparent reason?
Correlation coefficient
Sudden Infant Death Syndrome
Mendel
The cerebrum
5. Deaf children will often be more proficient at communicating through _______ than do hearing infants - often being able to sign at ten months old
Half (23)
Bandura
Attention Deficit Disorder and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
Gestures
6. In children babbling begins around age _____ - while in deaf infants babbling usually begins around several months later
Gestures
Parallel play
Experimental research
Six or seven months
7. The final stage of Maslow's Hierarchy of needs. A stage you may never actually meet.
Lens
Critical period
Self-actualization
1 & 2
8. What is: the ability to group objects together on the basis of common features?
Hypothalamus
Classification
6
Extrinsic reinforcer
9. When do children develop object permanence?
Around age two
Rite of Passage
99%
2
10. Gifted children often hide gifts to ______.
Operant Conditioning
School-age Child
Crystallized intelligence
Fit in
11. Which lobe is related to body sensations?
Parietal lobe
No
12+
Divergent thinkers
12. There are usually two groups in an experiment - titled:
Fit in
First trimester
Experimental group and control group
Adrenal glands
13. Second stage in the Kubler-Ross's Stages of Dying: 'This is unfair. Why me?'
Telegraphic speech
Anger (Emotion)
Elaboration
Auditory System
14. Dying w/o a will
Because at birth cells aren't well connected (lacking in myelin - or nerve insulation)
On chromosomes
Intestate
Sexual orientation
15. The first experiment of classical conditioning was done by who?
Ivan Pavlov
Dizygotic twins
Mainstreaming
Cornea
16. The repetition of certain syllables
Reciprocal determinism
Set high standards - assist along the way
Babbling
Cognitive improvement
17. What are the two parts responsible for bending light and focusing it in the back of the eye?
Correlation Research
Cornea and lens
Strong correlation
Condom
18. In a study - the researchers have direct control over this variable
Independent variable
True
Automatic
Subject
19. Gilligan believed that Kholberg's theory described the male progression which she called the what?
Morality of Justice
Cerebellum
Skin appearance - 'age spots' - hair
Midwife
20. What is the perception characteristic that: you don't have to think about it for it to happen?
Denial (Shock)
Automatic
Self-actualization
The brain/the cerebral cortex
21. What is: a state of mental balance - reconciling new experiences with new understanding
Raymond Cattell
Object permanence
Equilibrium
John Watson
22. Read pages 22-25 for charts: Piaget's Stages of Development and Freud's Psychosexual Stages
Iris
A census
Median
...
23. Who created functionalism?
Pons
Parasympathetic
Divergent thinking
William James
24. Parenting styles: respects individually - but tries to instill social values
Authoritative
Gerontology
William James
The skull - dura mater membrane - arachnoid layer - and pia mater.
25. Defense mechanism: you deny your feelings and come up with ways to justify your behavior
Rationalization
Echolalia
Divergent thinking
Pituitary gland
26. Which protective brain layer is mostly blood vessels?
Pia mater
Divergent thinking
Social learning theory
Gender role stereotypes
27. What is the name for the awareness of external and internal events?
Regression
Invincibility fable
Psychological maltreatment
Consciousness
28. What is the very critical period of the first 3 months in the womb?
Sampling
Lewis Terman
Prenatal development
Accommodation
29. What are the four layers that protect the brain?
The skull - dura mater membrane - arachnoid layer - and pia mater.
The brain stem
Nature vs. nurture
Positive reinforcer
30. What is: the most developed - and largest (80%) - part of the brain?
Wilhelm Wundt
Cerebral cortex
Acceptance
Pavlov; classical conditioning
31. Categories of old age: 75-84
Middle-old
Anger (Emotion)
Classical conditioning
Frontal lobe
32. Where nursing care is given meant to maximize the quality of life for someone who is dying
Sympathetic - parasympathetic - and enteric
Abstinence
Perception
Hospice
33. What is: the type of thought that has to do with factual information--trivia - vocabulary - science - history?
Cerebral cortex
Crystallized intelligence
Mental health
Correlation coefficient
34. What is another name for a sound wave's amplitude?
Cephalocaudal
Loudness
Parallel play
Genes
35. What is: your sense of being a man or woman as defined by society?
Medicated delivery
Gender
Stage 1
Dura mater
36. Level 1 of Kohlberg's Theory of Moral Development includes which stages
Mainstreaming
Projection
1 & 2
Resilient child
37. What is: a progesterone shot given every three months?
Gender conservation
Depo-Provera
1 & 2
Three percent
38. Which stage of development is: Identity vs. Role Confusion? (who am I)
Ageism
Adolescent
Spiritual - emotional - mental - and social health
Dialectical perspective
39. What kind of problem can it cause when a husband and wife have different blood types?
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40. Fourth development of language
2
Telegraphic speech
Resilient child
Genetic Mutation
41. What is the most dangerous trimester for the fetus (in regard to drug/alcohol use)?
Up to 6 months of observation by doctors
Six or seven months
Cerebral anoxia
First trimester
42. Stage in which a person is concerned w/ how their action might affect society; the social contract orientation
Stage 5
5
Irritability - social responsiveness - and activity level
Class inclusion
43. How many PAIRS of chromosomes do body cells have?
23 pairs
Deferred imitation
Visual cliff
Resilient child
44. What is: an experienced practitioner who can attend pregnancies and deliveries?
Midwife
Gerontology
Pituitary gland
Absolute threshold
45. What is: sheath of thin latex designed to catch sperm upon ejaculation?
Harry Harlow
Projection
Condom
Strong correlation
46. When one variable increases while another variable decreases. We call this a what?
Negative Correlation
Kibbutz
Mental age/Chronological age - x 100
Figurative language
47. 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)
Visual cliff
Conceive at younger ages
Operation
First trimester
48. Third step in Maslow's Hierarchy of needs in which you may want to meet needs of belongings and love through relationships
Autism
Lens
Childhood depression
Belonging and love
49. Stage at which children are egocentric and will therefore think divorce is their fault
Preoperational stage (ages 3-6)
3
Chomsky
Alfred Binet
50. What is the clear membrane in front of the eye that protects it?
Half (23)
Virginia Apgar - or Apgar Rating
Multiple caretakers
Cornea