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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 the term for the death of a child under one year - for no apparent reason?
Genes
Physical needs
Class inclusion
Sudden Infant Death Syndrome
2. What is: expression of your maleness or femaleness on a daily basis?
Gender roles
Noise
Morphemes
Sampling
3. What are the four components of psychosocial health?
Spiritual - emotional - mental - and social health
Cross-modal perception
Denial
9-15
4. What is the variable that the experimenter controls?
Selective
Preconventional - conventional - postconventional
Irritability - social responsiveness - and activity level
Independent variable
5. Self-esteem begins forming in:
Middle childhood
Best friend
Middle-age Adult
Increase
6. The average of a data set
Gonads
Mean
Extinction
Reinforcer
7. Pavlovs famous classical conditioning dog experiment.
Erogenous zones
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
Pitch
8. What is: structures in the cerebral cortex related to memory and emotion?
Cornea and lens
Pavlov; classical conditioning
Operant conditioning
Limbic system
9. Theory by Bandura; the interaction of a person's personality - the environment - and the behavior.
Social aspect of language
Reciprocal determinism
Morphemes
Genes
10. What controls breathing and heart rate?
Cerebral palsy
Mode
Pons
Set high standards - assist along the way
11. Which lobe is related to hearing?
Super Ego
Middle ear
Amplitude
Temporal lobe
12. A child that bounces back from a difficult situation
Id
Resilient child
Iris
Deferred imitation
13. By the time they reach middle childhood - most girls will identify with one and only one _______.
Six months
Fetal Alcohol Syndrome
Kleinfelter Syndrome; male
Best friend
14. What is: any pill designed to prevent pregnancy?
If the mom and child have different blood types - the mom's cells can attack the baby.
Oral contraceptives
Sterilization
Parietal lobe
15. What is: the ability to associate something from one area of knowledge - and use that to determine or imagine what it is like in other aspects?
Brain and spinal cord
Recognition
Cross-modal perception
Qualitative
16. Age at which most children will identify specific 'best-friends'
Nature
10
Self-actualization
Half (23)
17. Aside from learning disabilities - what physical problem do Kleinfelter people have?
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18. 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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19. What is the perception characteristic that: if you have heard a movie is scary - you might be more inclined to get scared?
Classical conditioning works more to explain reflexive or unconscious reactions - Operant conditioning works to explain elective actions and reactions
Contextual
ADHD
Abstinence
20. Individual sounds w/ in a word
Independent variable
Reciprocal determinism
Morphemes
Phonemes
21. What attention disorders also interfere with the learning process?
Attention Deficit Disorder and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
Lens
Structuralism
Gender roles
22. The process of unassociating the condition with the response
Proximodistal
Osteoporosis
Extinction
Midwife
23. What are the three different types of teratogens?
Cesarean birth
Drugs - diseases (like HIV - rubella) - and pollutants (mercury - radiation - etc)
Mental health
Classical conditioning
24. What is: small device to block access to the uterus; left in place with spermicide for 6-8 hours - in order to kill any remaining sperm?
The skull - dura mater membrane - arachnoid layer - and pia mater.
Median
Diaphragm
Fetal Alcohol Syndrome
25. Defense mechanism: a type of displacement - a redirection of the feeling into a socially productive activity
Nature vs. nurture
Ethics
Homophobia
Sublimation
26. Why isn't an IQ test a good indicator for children over long periods of time?
Wilhelm Wundt
They can be coached into learning a type of test--do better or worse - etc.
Midwife
Gender roles
27. A type of conditioning in which a person associates an action with a consequence
Operant Conditioning
Survey
Papillae
Through actions - doing what you believe is correct
28. What is the conception alternative where fertilization of the egg is done outside the body - and then transferred back into the body?
Accommodation
Response extinction
In vitro fertilization
Medicated delivery
29. Where nursing care is given meant to maximize the quality of life for someone who is dying
Conservation
Heterosexual
Hospice
None!!
30. Who created functionalism?
Psychoanalytic theory
William James
Independent variable
Pupil
31. What is: attraction to the same sex?
Biological; Behavioral; Cognitive; Humanistic; Psychoanalytical; Structuralism; Functionalism; Nature vs. Nurture
Limbic system
Homosexual
Gentle birth
32. A medical doctor with a degree who specializes in psychotherapy - who can prescribe drugs
Young-old
Psychiatrist
Thalamus
3
33. A child that is always in a hurry
Attention Deficit Disorder and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
Psychological maltreatment
Hurried-child
Thalamus
34. What is another term for the system of hearing?
Gentle birth
Safety
3 & 4
Auditory System
35. Which though process is follower thinking?
Convergent thinking
Genetic Mutation
Rationalization
1 & 2
36. What is: the gland that controls release of hormones from the gonads?
Pituitary gland
Selective
Middle-age Adult
Rationalization
37. Why is autism rare in children for the first 2 1/2 years?
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38. What do doctors agree is the best way to feed babies?
Gonads
Breast-feeding
A will
Accommodation
39. Observing someone's behavior and basing our own behavior on it
School-age Child
Timbre
Modeling
Clinical psychologist
40. What is the chance of having a boy or girl - according to Mendel's experiments in genetics?
50%
Carl Rogers
Stimulus generalization
Operation
41. What is: the theory that all people are inherently good and motivated to achieve their full potential
Positive reinforcer
1) Gather info - 2) Generate hypothesis - 3) Test hypothesis - 4) Revise
Hypokinetic diseases
Humanistic
42. What is: the ear's interpretation of a sound's frequency
First trimester
Inner ear
Pitch
Kohlberg
43. The ethical component of the personality and provides the moral standards by which the ego operates
Creative
Super Ego
Middle-old
Psychoanalytical
44. The scientific study of words and sentences
Pons
Authoritarian
Semantics
50%
45. What are: vibrations in the air that we receive through the ear to be processed?
Diaphragm
Sound waves
6
Cesarean birth
46. What is: the realization that objects stay the same even when they are made to look different?
ADHD
Convergent thinking
Conservation
Long labors or birth complications
47. Children that are raised on the Kibbutz are used to study the effects of what?
12+
Depo-Provera
Multiple caretakers
Social aspect of language
48. 1 -3 -4 -5 -7 -8 -10 what is the median?
Middle childhood
The brain stem
Naturalistic observation
5
49. Read pages 22-25 for charts: Piaget's Stages of Development and Freud's Psychosexual Stages
Brain and spinal cord
...
Content validity
Cephalocaudal and Proximodistal
50. If a mother catches rubella in first trimester - what is the chance that the fetus is affected?
Mental health
90%
Set high standards - assist along the way
Pavlov; classical conditioning