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DSST Lifespan Developmental Psychology
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1. What is the perception characteristic that: if you have heard a movie is scary - you might be more inclined to get scared?
Personality
Contextual
Egocentrism
Sexually transmitted diseases
2. A method of modifying behavior - by ignoring the behavior so you don't have the response
Family therapy
Response extinction
Middle-age Adult
The skull - dura mater membrane - arachnoid layer - and pia mater.
3. A child that is always in a hurry
Bell would ring - then feed the dogs - Dogs would salivate when given food - Over time dogs began to salivate simply at ring of bell
Hurried-child
Conceive at younger ages
IUD
4. Who did the experiment with baby monkeys about affection and love?
Midwife
Harry Harlow
Teratology
Anger (Emotion)
5. What is: the moment an ovum/egg is fertilized by sperm?
It measures a child against their peers - in that moment
Frequency
Conception
Egocentric behavior
6. 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?
Ivan Pavlov
Closure
Cross Sectional Study
Suppression
7. Defense mechanism: you deny your feelings and come up with ways to justify your behavior
Classical conditioning
Have more bland personalities and often difficult for them to create and maintain intimate relationships as they have a lack of emotional depth
A will
Rationalization
8. Which part of the ANS is the arousing part of the system?
Elaboration
Morality of Care
Sympathetic nervous system
Stage 5
9. Stage at which children are egocentric and will therefore think divorce is their fault
Cerebral anoxia
Intestate
Preoperational stage (ages 3-6)
Nurture
10. Children learn and form their conscience and thoughts of what is acceptable behavior from what?
Watching their parents
Conception
Class inclusion
Assimilation
11. Parenting styles: makes few demands - hardly ever punishes
Figurative language
Around age two
Permissive
Personality
12. 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)
Operation
10-14 months
Cerebrospinal fluid
Operant Conditioning
13. Which receptor is used for color vision?
Cones
None!!
6-12
Put babies on their backs to sleep - and not have anything extra (toys - pillows etc) in the bed or crib.
14. What is: method of contraception by having no direct contact with partner's genitals?
Cognitive improvement
Projection
All drugs - including over the counter - aspirin - coffee
Abstinence
15. When one variable increases while another variable decreases. We call this a what?
Pituitary gland
Negative Correlation
Toxic shock syndrome
Sympathetic nervous system
16. Categories of old age: 85+
B.F. Skinner
William James
Old-old
4-9
17. Stage in which a person makes decisions according to his or her conscience; the universal ethical principal orientation; not many people ever reach this stage
Miscarriages or stillbirths
Stage 6
Egocentric behavior
10
18. What is: dynamic blend of our experiences - heredity - environment - etc. which determines how we react to problems/issues?
Humanistic
Hypothalamus
Sexual orientation
Personality
19. What are the three different types of teratogens?
Crystallized intelligence
Drugs - diseases (like HIV - rubella) - and pollutants (mercury - radiation - etc)
Old Age
Depth perception
20. What two things make up the central nervous system?
Contraception
Inner ear
Brain and spinal cord
Constant
21. Children are most likely to achieve if parents:
Gene
Set high standards - assist along the way
Pons
Iris
22. What are the different types of caregivers for pregnancy?
Obstetrician-gynecologist - family practitioner - or midwife
Nurture
Classical conditioning
Left hand - left eye - and simple comprehension
23. Stage in which you see the right action as what satisfies your personal needs; a person becomes aware of two different viewpoints
10-14 months
Cones
School-age Child
Stage 2
24. What is the conception alternative where semen is deposited into the body via a thin tube?
Norplant
Maslow
Genetic Mutation
Alternative - or artificial - insemination
25. Who argued that if psychology was a true science - then psychologists should only study what they could see and measure (behaviorist theory)?
Young-old
John Watson
Gentle birth
Cornea
26. What is: a statistical measure of typical scores for categories of information?
Erogenous zones
Developmental norm
Gonads
Pia mater
27. What is: the ear's interpretation of a sound's frequency
As soon as the bell was rung
Pitch
Avoid punishment
Rh positive
28. A collection of data from all cases or people in the chosen set
Resilient child
A census
Extinction
Stage 3
29. There are usually two groups in an experiment - titled:
Selera
Experimental group and control group
Epinephrine and norepinephrine
Old Age
30. A chronic condition that deteriorates the nerve fibers in the brain controlling memory - speech - and personality. Early symptoms including personality changes - lack of interest in activities - and change in sleep patterns.
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31. Applied when a test measures something more than one facet
Content validity
The skull - dura mater membrane - arachnoid layer - and pia mater.
Natural observation
Left hand - left eye - and simple comprehension
32. What is when the baby is born in a pool or bath with dim lights?
Belonging and love
Elaboration
Semantics
Gentle birth
33. The best way to teach children values is?
Family situation - the world around you - lifespan - and maturity.
Through actions - doing what you believe is correct
On chromosomes
ADHD
34. True or False: Kohlberg believed that you go through each step of moral development one @ a time and could not skip them.
Deferred imitation
True
Punishment
Lens
35. A person who uses ______ has a stated position - but also acknowledges that it may change over time.
Opens and closes to let the correct amount of light in
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
Around age two
Dialectical perspective
36. What is the characteristic that: you fill in areas that we do not have complete information about?
Divergent thinking
Creative
Absolute threshold
You need two - one from each parent - to conceive.
37. What is the medical term for birth of a dead baby?
Stillbirth
Hypothalamus
Cesarean birth
Toddler
38. What is the method of surgical delivery?
Cesarean birth
Wilhelm Wundt
Divergent thinking
Class inclusion
39. Environment in which two (or more) children sit side by side - or near each other - and play without interacting with the other child or trying to influence them in any way. Most children engage in this type of enviornment.
Parallel play
Adolescent
Accommodation
Cross-modal perception
40. A child that bounces back from a difficult situation
Closure
Brain and spinal cord
Resilient child
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
41. The scientific study of words and sentences
Telegraphic speech
ADHD
Sexually transmitted diseases
Semantics
42. Who proposed fluid/crystallized intelligence?
Cerebral palsy
Selective attention
Raymond Cattell
The brain
43. Which stage of development is: Generativity vs. Stagnation? (giving to the next generation)
Middle-age Adult
Syphillis and rubella
Absolute threshold
Six months
44. The average of a data set
Mean
4-9
Semantics
Correlation Research
45. Anything which makes a behavior more likely to occur
Cognitive improvement
Middle-old
Reinforcer
Explicit role instruction
46. We smell when airborne molecules of an odor reach tiny receptor cells in the top of the nasal cavity; what is the name of this receptor area?
Cephalocaudal and Proximodistal
Pia mater
Olfactory epithelium
Short attention span
47. Which lobe is related to voluntary muscles and intelligence?
Francis Bacon--16th century
Frontal lobe
Abstinence
Gender identity
48. Those who are mentally retarded are least likely to also have WHAT condition?
Cerebral palsy
Free morpheme
Wear-and-Tear Theory
Nature vs. nurture
49. What is the name for the 'crack' in the middle of the brain halves?
Free morpheme
Homophobia
Longitudinal fissure
Cerebrospinal fluid
50. Categories of old age: 65-74
Three percent
Young-old
Dyscalcula
Zone of Proximal Development