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DSST Lifespan Developmental Psychology
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1. What is: hatred and fear of homosexuals?
On chromosomes
Homophobia
6
Divergent thinking
2. What do endocrine glands do?
Sexually transmitted diseases
Parasympathetic
10-14 months
Create and release chemicals into the blood
3. When does language development begin?
Endocrine system
ADHD
Six months
Operation
4. An environment where children live and attend school
Nurture
Ethics
Stimulus generalization
Peer group
5. What is: when a sample is taken from the fluid in the amniotic sac - to be tested for diseases or genetic traits?
Amniocentesis
Timbre
Adolescent
Convergent thinking
6. Which part of the ANS is the arousing part of the system?
Stillbirth
Acceptance
Visual cliff
Sympathetic nervous system
7. What is: growth from the center (spine) outward - where vital organs form before the extremities?
Frontal lobe
Mental health
Proximodistal
None!!
8. Age at which children begin to share their toys and interact w/ one another - associative play
Hollow phrases
No correlation
3
Convergent thinking
9. The first experiment of classical conditioning was done by who?
Ivan Pavlov
Cerebrospinal fluid
Operant conditioning
Rubella
10. What is: the way the brain organizes and gives meaning to information provided by the senses?
3 & 4
Middle ear
Perception
Autoerotic behavior
11. What is the method in which a variable and constant are use to test theories?
Neonate
Gender role stereotypes
Experimental research
Morality of Justice
12. What is: any pill designed to prevent pregnancy?
Phonemes
Pituitary gland
Operation
Oral contraceptives
13. Who did the study between stimulus and response with dogs; and what did he discover?
Correlation coefficient
Pavlov; classical conditioning
Irritability - social responsiveness - and activity level
Sound waves
14. Categories of old age: 75-84
Middle-old
Ego
Reaction Formation
Fetal alcohol syndrome
15. 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?
Avoid punishment
Safety
Selective attention
Closure
16. What is the variable that the experiment is trying to test?
Weak correlation
1 in 14 -000
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
Dependent variable
17. Does a somatic (body) cell have a full - or half - set of chromosomes?
Full (46)
School-age Child
Gender
They can be coached into learning a type of test--do better or worse - etc.
18. Used to show links between people - events - actions - behaviors - etc. while not determining the caus - rather is linked to statistics
Classical conditioning
Correlation Research
Cellular Theory
Constant
19. What is: the theory focused on the individual's unconscious motivations?
Psychoanalytical
23 pairs
4-9
Displacement
20. Who argued that classical conditioning explains some behaviors - but operant conditioning plays a much larger role?
Timbre
Baby Albert
B.F. Skinner
Operation
21. Why does a gamete have a half set of chromosomes?
Injections
Cerebrum
You need two - one from each parent - to conceive.
Authoritative
22. Read pages 22-25 for charts: Piaget's Stages of Development and Freud's Psychosexual Stages
Inner ear
...
IUD
Intestate
23. How is ADHD diagnosed?
Up to 6 months of observation by doctors
6-12
Operant conditioning
Cross-modal perception
24. Disagreed w/ Kohlberg's Theory of Moral Development because his subjects were mainly male
Contextual
Neonate
Gilligan
Dura mater
25. Level 2 of Kohlberg's Theory of Moral Development includes which stages
3 & 4
Avoid punishment
Cut in half
Self-concept
26. Method that teaches children to realized their full potential.
Three
Natural observation
Pia mater
The Montessori Method
27. What system is made up of the hypothalamus and other glands?
Neonate
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
Clinical psychologist
Endocrine system
28. 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?
Mainstreaming
Cross-modal perception
Short attention span
Reciprocal determinism
29. Applied when a test measures something more than one facet
Family therapy
Women - men
Iris
Content validity
30. What is the study done to show that infants have depth perception?
6-12
Behavioral
Visual cliff
Around age two
31. Who believed that the unconscious motivates our actions - through the id - ego - and superego?
Limbic system
Freud
Amplitude
Classification
32. What is: an M.D. who provides comprehensive care for people of all ages?
Mental health
Family practitioner
Toddler
Oral contraceptives
33. Types of child play in chronological order:
Accommodation
Appearance - pulse - grimace (reflex) - activity - and respiration
Unoccupied behavior - onlooker - solitary independent (plays alone) - parallel play (plays around but not w/ others) - associative - cooperative play
Positive Correlation
34. Children that are raised on the Kibbutz are used to study the effects of what?
Multiple caretakers
Dialectical perspective
Correlation Research
Natural observation
35. When a participant fills out a survey themselves about themselves
Vestibular sense
William James
Genetic Mutation
Self-report data
36. Believed each person had an idea of a 'perfect person' and tried to work towards being like that person as much as possible - believing that people needed to become 'fully functioning' individuals
Behaviorism
Psychometrics
Nurture
Carl Rogers
37. What is: term for how much someone values and respects themselves?
Pupil
Self-esteem
Ferdinand Lamaze
Cornea
38. A baby repeating what you just said
Selective
Echolalia
Short attention span
Syphillis and rubella
39. What is the conception alternative where semen is deposited into the body via a thin tube?
Alternative - or artificial - insemination
You need two - one from each parent - to conceive.
Five
Slowed growth - body/face malfunctions - nervous system disorders - mental retardation.
40. What is: expression of your maleness or femaleness on a daily basis?
Retina
Wear-and-Tear Theory
Gender roles
Frontal lobe
41. Is there currently a cure for Alzheimer's disease?
Informed consent
Nature vs. nurture
Emotional health
No
42. What is: the process by which a society identifies its expectations?
Diaphragm
Socialization
Classical conditioning
Assimilation
43. A reinforcer that comes from within the individual--something emotional.
Intrinsic reinforcer
Belonging and love
Stage 3
3-7
44. 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
William James
Stage 6
Convergent thinking
The skull - dura mater membrane - arachnoid layer - and pia mater.
45. Which stage of development is: Initiative vs. Guilt? (trying different roles)
3
Informed consent
Preschooler
Socialization
46. Stage in which you do what is right in order to gain status or approval from other people or society; 'good boy-good girl' orientation
Stage 3
In vitro fertilization
...
Hospice
47. Who made the first IQ test?
Stage 6
Cross-modal perception
Alfred Binet
Skin appearance - 'age spots' - hair
48. Children are most likely to achieve if parents:
William James
Set high standards - assist along the way
Cut in half
Physical needs
49. What is: sexual self-stimulation or masturbation?
Francis Bacon--16th century
Gender identity
Autoerotic behavior
Celibacy
50. What is: the elated feeling adolescents have - that they are immune to risks - mortality and probability; false sense of security thinking they will never fall or get caught.
Invincibility fable
Resilient child
Nature
Lens