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DSST Lifespan Developmental Psychology
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1. What is a sometimes-fatal disease occuring from the excessive use of tampons - or leaving a diaphragm in - for longer than prescribed time?
Sexual identity
Toxic shock syndrome
Allow the skull's plates of bone to shift or flex - making childbirth easier.
Watching their parents
2. Anything which makes a behavior more likely to occur
Spiritual health
Reinforcer
Best friend
...
3. The name most associated with operant conditioning is who?
Rubella
Mean
B.F. Skinner
Strong correlation
4. Which stage of development is: Identity vs. Role Confusion? (who am I)
Bargaining
Survey
Adolescent
Correlational research
5. What houses memories and controls our responses to different sensory signals?
Authoritarian
The cerebrum
Ivan Pavlov
Class inclusion
6. What sends commands to all other parts of the body?
Multiple caretakers
Acceptance
Excitement - plateau - orgasm - and resolution phases
The brain stem
7. Experiment where researchers made a baby afraid of rats through classical conditioning
Pavlov; classical conditioning
No
Teratology
Baby Albert
8. Defense mechanism: hiding the feelings and not acknowledging them
Independent variable
Suppression
The penis doesn't grow and breasts may develop.
Kibbutz
9. Parenting styles: 'because I say so'--more prevalent in lower-class families
Authoritarian
Olfactory epithelium
10
Gentle birth
10. Defense mechanism: a type of displacement - a redirection of the feeling into a socially productive activity
The more accurate the result
Autism
Sublimation
Gestures
11. What two other chemicals do the adrenal glands secrete?
Epinephrine and norepinephrine
Put babies on their backs to sleep - and not have anything extra (toys - pillows etc) in the bed or crib.
Six or seven months
Create and release chemicals into the blood
12. What are the three parts of memory?
Encoding the information - represnting the information - and retrieving information from memory.
Reciprocal determinism
Clinical psychologist
Modeling
13. What is: not being involved in a sexual relationship?
Correlational research
Spermicides
Celibacy
Developmental norm
14. Who coined the Theory of Moral Development?
Recognition
Kohlberg
Gradually through shaping
Phenylketonuria (PKU)
15. Defined as diseases which are either related to or caused by a sedentary lifestyle - in other words - caused by the lack of regular exercise or activity
Authoritarian
Hypokinetic diseases
Ego
Because at birth cells aren't well connected (lacking in myelin - or nerve insulation)
16. Types of child play in chronological order:
Invincibility fable
Kubler-Ross's Stages of Dying
Unoccupied behavior - onlooker - solitary independent (plays alone) - parallel play (plays around but not w/ others) - associative - cooperative play
Subject
17. Who developed the theory of social development?
Vygotsky
4
Elaboration
Alfred Binet
18. What is: term for how much someone values and respects themselves?
Explicit role instruction
Self-esteem
The right hand - right eye - and speech
Preschooler
19. What is the ring of muscles that makes up the colored part of the eye?
Laboratory observation
Miscarriages or stillbirths
Iris
Appearance - pulse - grimace (reflex) - activity - and respiration
20. What is when the baby is born in a pool or bath with dim lights?
Ageism
Gentle birth
Dialectical perspective
Ivan Pavlov
21. What is: sheath of thin latex designed to catch sperm upon ejaculation?
Placebo effect
Condom
Rubella
Hypokinetic diseases
22. The number which occurs the most often
Midwife
Bound morpheme
Mostly developed by the time of birth
Mode
23. What coordinates all movements and muscles?
Cerebellum
Reciprocal determinism
Peer group
1 in 14 -000
24. In a child - can be expressed as 'nobody likes me'
Cognitive improvement
Operant conditioning
Childhood depression
Occipital lobe
25. What is the middle number in a set of data called?
Median
Mode
Monozygotic twins
Pitch
26. What is: a child (especially preschool age) doesn't take into consideration other people's needs--their perceptions are limited to their own point of view
Middle ear
Kibbutz
Parasympathetic
Egocentric behavior
27. Observing someone's behavior and basing our own behavior on it
Recognition
Classification
Modeling
Alfred Binet
28. What is: the theory to investigate the elements or 'structures' of the mind; classify structures and focus on conscious thought
Family situation - the world around you - lifespan - and maturity.
Gender identity
Selective attention
Structuralism
29. Visible signs of aging include:
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30. Usually has a doctoral degree in psychology plus an internship; cannot prescribe medicine.
Adolescent Egocentrism
Thalamus
Lewis Terman
Clinical psychologist
31. Stage in which whether you will be punished or not determines what is moral or not - also called the punishment and obiedience phase
Stage 2
Five
Weak correlation
Stage 1
32. Which of these diseases can cause miscarriage - stillbirth - heart defects - deafness - and other problems?
Visual cliff
Developmental norm
Rubella
Adrenal glands
33. A morpheme that must be w/ a word
Invincibility fable
Bound morpheme
Babbling
Accommodation
34. What purpose do fontanels have?
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35. How do you fix the problem of mother's cells attacking the baby's?
Cerebral cortex
Injections
Bell would ring - then feed the dogs - Dogs would salivate when given food - Over time dogs began to salivate simply at ring of bell
Homophobia
36. What is the main symptom of hyperactivity?
Short attention span
10
Syphillis and rubella
2
37. Who did the study between stimulus and response with dogs; and what did he discover?
William James
Laboratory observation
Pavlov; classical conditioning
Humanistic Theorists
38. Who made the first IQ test?
Invincibility fable
Alfred Binet
Create and release chemicals into the blood
Qualitative
39. What do doctors agree is the best way to feed babies?
Cochlea
Breast-feeding
Norplant
Gradually through shaping
40. The smallest unit of a word which has meaning - may be bound or free
Mainstreaming
Morphemes
Oral contraceptives
Young Adult
41. Which receptor is used for color vision?
Cones
Babbling
Classical conditioning works more to explain reflexive or unconscious reactions - Operant conditioning works to explain elective actions and reactions
Preoperational stage (ages 3-6)
42. Once the disease strikes - an individual w/ Alzheimer's disease usually has their life expectancy is:
Spiritual - emotional - mental - and social health
Longitudinal fissure
Cut in half
Biological
43. What is: the debate between whether a child is born a bad seed--with whatever disposition/tastes/personality they were meant to have; or that a child is born good - with their upbringing affecting their later personality and actions.
Oral contraceptives
Nature vs. nurture
Sterilization
Closure
44. What is the perception characteristic that: if you have heard a movie is scary - you might be more inclined to get scared?
Contextual
Pavlov; classical conditioning
Phonemes
Emergency contraception
45. What is: located in the limbic system - with primary function to store memories?
Experimental group and control group
Hippocampus
Random assignment
Slowed growth - body/face malfunctions - nervous system disorders - mental retardation.
46. Why is self-report data not as reliable as other research methods?
Increase
Subjects may be dishonest w/ their answers
Young Adult
Unoccupied behavior - onlooker - solitary independent (plays alone) - parallel play (plays around but not w/ others) - associative - cooperative play
47. What is the name for depth perception cues made with one eye?
Id
Monocular cues
Not fully developed; but can distinguish color - track movement - and bright objects.
Bias
48. Jean Piaget extensively used which research method to study children?
Irritability - social responsiveness - and activity level
Natural observation
Selective
IUD
49. Cultural bias not generally known across all subcultures
Extinction
Psychometrics
Amplitude
Hour of love
50. The average of a data set
Creative
Content validity
Correlational research
Mean