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DSST Lifespan Developmental Psychology
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1. How much are the eyes developed in newborns?
ADHD
Double blind
Not fully developed; but can distinguish color - track movement - and bright objects.
John Watson
2. What is another name for a newborn?
Neonate
...
Fetal death
Emergency contraception
3. Who created functionalism?
Bound morpheme
Displacement
Placebo effect
William James
4. When can a person's short term memory become incapacitated?
Extrinsic reinforcer
Corpus callosum
Long labors or birth complications
As they age
5. Which stage of development is: Industry vs. Inferiority? (working with others)
Accommodation
Gender roles
Middle childhood
School-age Child
6. What is the opening of the iris - which looks black?
Pupil
Miscarriages or stillbirths
Vestibular sense
Wilhelm Wundt
7. Biological theories of aging: like everything else in the world - the human body wears out
IUD
Wear-and-Tear Theory
Telegraphic speech
Ivan Pavlov
8. A term used in research used to describe something measurable usually expressed as a number
Infants were placed on a solid - opaque surface - and the mothers were placed at the end of the table - where the opaque ended and glass begun. The infants didn't want to cross the glass because they could see the distance between themselves and the
Three
Humanistic Theorists
Quantitative
9. What glands affect the mood - energy level - and stress?
Adrenal glands
Ageism
Chomsky
A will
10. Cultural bias not generally known across all subcultures
Mean
ADHD
Adolescent
Psychometrics
11. What is: structures in the cerebral cortex related to memory and emotion?
Selective
Opens and closes to let the correct amount of light in
Avoid punishment
Limbic system
12. What is: your feelings and reactions
Egocentrism
Emotional health
Self-actualization - Esteem needs - Belonging and love - Safety - Physical needs
Consciousness
13. What is: attraction to both sexes?
Stage 6
Dizygotic twins
Super Ego
Bisexual
14. Categories of old age: 65-74
99%
Cooing
Young-old
Emotional health
15. A correlation coefficient of zero
Physical needs
Social learning theory
No correlation
Abortion
16. What is another name for a sound wave's amplitude?
Osteoporosis
Loudness
Fetal Alcohol Syndrome
Retina
17. A morpheme that can be a word on its own
Holophrase syntax
Operant conditioning
Free morpheme
Babbling
18. What is: your sense of being a man or woman as defined by society?
Syphillis and rubella
Gender
Bias
Watching their parents
19. 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)
Irritability - social responsiveness - and activity level
Pituitary gland
Operation
Recognition
20. First element to Vygotsky's theory: what does social interaction facilitate?
Obstetrician-gynecologist
Cognitive improvement
Maslow
Self-actualization
21. How was the visual cliff study conducted?
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22. How is extinction best achieved?
Accommodation
Response extinction
Gradually through shaping
Vestibular sense
23. What is: the most developed - and largest (80%) - part of the brain?
Cerebrospinal fluid
Cerebral cortex
True
Sympathetic - parasympathetic - and enteric
24. Which thought process is: a set of steps is followed to come to a correct answer; used in academic (math/science) settings?
School-age Child
Convergent thinking
Cellular Theory
Contraception
25. Which stage of development is: Ego Integrity vs. Despair? (what they have done with their life)
Independent variable
Francis Bacon--16th century
Operant Conditioning
Old Age
26. What is: the realization that objects stay the same even when they are made to look different?
Developmental norm
Corpus callosum
Conservation
The brain stem
27. All other variables w/in an experiment that researchers do not have control over
Dependent variable
Pitch
Independent variable
Mendel
28. What is: the theory centered on studying how the mind is involved in knowing - learning - remembering - thinking; study how the mind relates to behavior
Celibacy
Cognitive
Id - Ego - Super Ego
Independent variable
29. Second step in Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs
Safety
The more accurate the result
Obstetrician-gynecologist
Object permanence
30. The scientific study of words and sentences
Semantics
Visual cliff
Stage 5
Multiple caretakers
31. What is the term for low IQ and mental age of about 4 years old?
12+
The cloth monkey
Pituitary gland
Mentally retarded
32. What is: relating new information to something familiar
Median
Syphillis and rubella
Regression
Elaboration
33. Once the disease strikes - an individual w/ Alzheimer's disease usually has their life expectancy is:
Occipital - temporal - frontal - and parietal.
Psychiatrist
Cut in half
Gender
34. What is: your thoughts - beliefs - attitudes - and values
Denial (Shock)
4
Preschooler
Mental health
35. How many different theories of language development are there?
ADHD
Three
Loudness
Operant conditioning
36. Categories of old age: 85+
John Watson
Amplitude
Increase
Old-old
37. Age at which children begin to share their toys and interact w/ one another - associative play
Alzheimer's Disease
Daydreaming
Have more bland personalities and often difficult for them to create and maintain intimate relationships as they have a lack of emotional depth
3
38. What are the three parts of memory?
Wilhelm Wundt
Psychoanalytic theory
Encoding the information - represnting the information - and retrieving information from memory.
Pitch
39. What syndrome is characterized by small stature - poor coordination - hyperactive - learning disabilities - mental retardation - or large head?
Genes
Clinical psychologist
They were not scientifically performed
Fetal Alcohol Syndrome
40. What is the sense that gives information about balance and body movement? (if your body is moving - tilting - etc.)
Vestibular sense
Conceive at younger ages
Adrenal glands
Cerebrospinal fluid
41. In a study - the researchers have direct control over this variable
Denial (Shock)
Fluid intelligence and crystal intelligence
Encoding the information - represnting the information - and retrieving information from memory.
Independent variable
42. Id - Ego - and Super Ego were all founded by who?
Norplant
Toxic shock syndrome
Sigmund Freud
Physical needs
43. What is another term for the system of hearing?
Auditory System
Holophrase syntax
Corpus callosum
Midwife
44. What is: the representation in the mind of a set of perceptions - ideas - and actions - which go together
Equilibrium
Denial
Self-actualization
Schema
45. What is the most popular method for giving birth?
Bias
Medicated delivery
Cross Sectional Study
Mental age/Chronological age - x 100
46. What are: vibrations in the air that we receive through the ear to be processed?
Sound waves
Correlation Research
Kibbutz
Reaction Formation
47. What is the simple type of learning for getting used to something?
Left hand - left eye - and simple comprehension
Habituation
Kubler-Ross's Stages of Dying
Psychoanalytic theory
48. What is the study done to show that infants have depth perception?
Gestalt psychology
Visual cliff
Amplitude
The right hand - right eye - and speech
49. Which lobe is related to hearing?
Super Ego
A will
Attention Deficit Disorder and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
Temporal lobe
50. What is: when adolescents truly believe themselves to be the center of the universe to those around them?
Chomsky
Intrinsic reinforcer
Adolescent Egocentrism
Parallel play