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DSST Lifespan Developmental Psychology
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1. Who developed the theory of social development?
Vygotsky
A will
Longitudinal Study
Modeling
2. In a child - can be expressed as 'nobody likes me'
Erik Erikson
Childhood depression
Ivan Pavlov
Correlation Research
3. What is the name for the awareness of external and internal events?
Drugs - diseases (like HIV - rubella) - and pollutants (mercury - radiation - etc)
Consciousness
10-14 months
Median
4. What are the four components of psychosocial health?
Spiritual - emotional - mental - and social health
Harry Harlow
Preoperational stage (ages 3-6)
They were not scientifically performed
5. Defense mechanism in which complete rejection of the feeling or situation
Informed consent
Denial
Kohlberg
Operant conditioning
6. Which part of the ANS is the calming part of the system?
Suppression
Maslow
Parasympathetic
The brain stem
7. First stage in the Kubler-Ross's Stages of Dying: 'This could never happen to me. This must be a mistake'
Frontal lobe
Outer ear
Have more bland personalities and often difficult for them to create and maintain intimate relationships as they have a lack of emotional depth
Denial (Shock)
8. What do children in early language development not understand?
Hurried-child
Figurative language
Behaviorism
Echolalia
9. A collection of data from all cases or people in the chosen set
A census
Ego
Frequency
Abstinence
10. Piaget believed that the individual actively constructs knowledge about the world--what is the term for this?
Intestate
Preparatory Depression
RU-486
Cognitive theorist
11. People who are working that experience discrimination because of their age - whether too young or too old are victims of what?
Loudness
Pituitary gland
Ageism
Quantitative
12. How much are the eyes developed in newborns?
Visual cliff
Sympathetic nervous system
Punishment
Not fully developed; but can distinguish color - track movement - and bright objects.
13. What is the name for depth perception cues made with one eye?
Authoritative
The skull - dura mater membrane - arachnoid layer - and pia mater.
Ageism
Monocular cues
14. A number between +1 and -1 that measures the strength between two variables
Creative
Displacement
Left hand - left eye - and simple comprehension
Correlation coefficient
15. Who proposed fluid/crystallized intelligence?
Raymond Cattell
Bargaining
Left hand - left eye - and simple comprehension
Homosexual
16. Which lobe is related to hearing?
Temporal lobe
Humanistic
Placebo effect
Daydreaming
17. What do physicians recommend to prevent SIDS?
Midwife
Put babies on their backs to sleep - and not have anything extra (toys - pillows etc) in the bed or crib.
Frontal lobe
Peer group
18. What is: growth from the center (spine) outward - where vital organs form before the extremities?
Long labors or birth complications
Cerebrum
Proximodistal
No correlation
19. Extension of 'actions speak louder than words' in behavior; follow others' examples despite their words.
Fluid intelligence and crystal intelligence
Dyscalcula
Prenatal development
Social learning theory
20. Infants develop a secure attachment when parents pay attention to and respond to a child's needs. What theory includes this statement?
Psychological maltreatment
Denial
If the mom and child have different blood types - the mom's cells can attack the baby.
Psychoanalytic theory
21. First step in Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs such as food water and shelter
Physical needs
Wilhelm Wundt
Autoerotic behavior
Lens
22. What are the three things to monitor - to measure temperament in infants?
Assimilation
Cornea
Irritability - social responsiveness - and activity level
Operant conditioning
23. Stages of friendship: two way - fair weathered
6-12
Stage 3
Classical conditioning works more to explain reflexive or unconscious reactions - Operant conditioning works to explain elective actions and reactions
Mean
24. Stages of friendship: one way assistance
4-9
1 & 2
Egocentrism
Kibbutz
25. Parenting styles: makes few demands - hardly ever punishes
Dialectical perspective
Preschooler
Hypothalamus
Permissive
26. What are the 8 psychological approaches?
1 in 14 -000
Gradually through shaping
Biological; Behavioral; Cognitive; Humanistic; Psychoanalytical; Structuralism; Functionalism; Nature vs. Nurture
Bound morpheme
27. Biological theories of aging: the number of cells that have problems or mutations that increase w/ age
Automatic - selective - contextual - and creative
Genetic Mutation
The right hand - right eye - and speech
The Premack Principle
28. Second development of language - still pre-speech; repetition of meaningful sounds
Independent variable
Babbling
John Watson
Rh positive
29. What does STDs stand for - including AIDS and herpes?
Behavioral
Sexually transmitted diseases
Self-report data
Resilient child
30. What is: attraction to both sexes?
Hurried-child
Correlation Research
Bisexual
Permissive
31. Aside from learning disabilities - what physical problem do Kleinfelter people have?
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32. What is the simple type of learning for getting used to something?
Puberty
Suppression
Habituation
Fluid intelligence
33. Why did studies used by Piaget and Freud lead to wrong conclusions?
They were not scientifically performed
Harry Harlow
Pavlov; classical conditioning
Anger (Emotion)
34. Believing women followed a different progression than men - she called the moral progression of the woman what?
Morality of Care
Intrinsic reinforcer
The skull - dura mater membrane - arachnoid layer - and pia mater.
Raymond Cattell
35. Stages of friendship: Momentary playmates
Biological
3-7
Teratology
Mental health
36. What is: an M.D. who specializes in OB-GYN?
Obstetrician-gynecologist
Telegraphic speech
Laboratory observation
Biological
37. What is: the ability to group objects together on the basis of common features?
Accommodation
Classification
Convergent thinking
Papillae
38. What is: long lasting contraceptive where six capsules are injected in a woman's arm?
Norplant
Invincibility fable
9-15
Cognitive
39. A type of conditioning in which a person associates an action with a consequence
Rite of Passage
Median
Operant Conditioning
Preconventional - conventional - postconventional
40. What is a learning disability in math - where concepts are learned one day and forgotten the next?
In vitro fertilization
Dyscalcula
Cerebrum
Dialectical perspective
41. A system which uses operant conditioning to make less probable actions more likely to occur by using more probable actions as reinforcers
Social aspect of language
Toxic shock syndrome
The Premack Principle
Wear-and-Tear Theory
42. Which of these diseases can cause miscarriage - stillbirth - heart defects - deafness - and other problems?
Francis Bacon--16th century
Rubella
Positive reinforcer
Humanistic
43. A medical doctor with a degree who specializes in psychotherapy - who can prescribe drugs
Self-actualization
Psychiatrist
Crystallized intelligence
Biological
44. What is: when a child can't be conceived via the usual method?
Peer group
Infertility
Psychological maltreatment
Appearance - pulse - grimace (reflex) - activity - and respiration
45. When people w/in an experiment are assigned to a group randomly
Random assignment
Frequency
Gender roles
Wear-and-Tear Theory
46. What section of the nervous system is responsible for the 'fight or flight' response?
Autonomic Nervous System
Contraception
IUD
Androgynous
47. Who was the psychoanalyst who documented stages of emotional growth in regards to babies?
Erik Erikson
Telegraphic speech
Preconventional Morality
Zone of Proximal Development
48. Stage at which children are egocentric and will therefore think divorce is their fault
Sympathetic nervous system
Psychological Tests
Preoperational stage (ages 3-6)
Dependent variable
49. What is caused by one extra chromosome in the number 21?
Drugs - diseases (like HIV - rubella) - and pollutants (mercury - radiation - etc)
Dizygotic twins
Mental age/Chronological age - x 100
Down syndrome
50. What is the ability to identify correctly something encountered before?
Olfactory epithelium
Pupil
Mentally retarded
Recognition