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DSST Lifespan Developmental Psychology
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1. What is: the method to prevent an egg and sperm from being able to access each other?
Middle-old
Contraception
Quantitative
Classical conditioning
2. What is: term used to describe a person's belief that they can perform a task successfully?
Convergent thinking
Self-efficacy
Osteoporosis
They were not scientifically performed
3. When a participant fills out a survey themselves about themselves
The meanlinkk of utterance (how long their sentences are)
Classification
Self-report data
Dyslexia
4. What is the sense that gives information about balance and body movement? (if your body is moving - tilting - etc.)
Rods
Vestibular sense
Short attention span
Sound waves
5. What percentage of children are affected by hyperactivity?
Full (46)
Lewis Terman
Three percent
Gene
6. What is the clear membrane in front of the eye that protects it?
As they age
50%
Cornea
Ivan Pavlov
7. What is the study done to show that infants have depth perception?
The Montessori Method
Visual cliff
Reaction Formation
Developmental norm
8. Extension of 'actions speak louder than words' in behavior; follow others' examples despite their words.
Social aspect of language
Social learning theory
Gender role stereotypes
Psychoanalytic theory
9. What is: another form of consciousness involving very little effort; dreaming while awake or letting the mind wander?
Young-old
Schema
Daydreaming
Contextual
10. Gifted children often hide gifts to ______.
Kleinfelter Syndrome; male
Fluid intelligence and crystal intelligence
Fit in
Peer group
11. What is the conception alternative where fertilization of the egg is done outside the body - and then transferred back into the body?
Social aspect of language
In vitro fertilization
Autism
Kleinfelter Syndrome; male
12. Stages of friendship: Momentary playmates
3-7
Cerebral cortex
Mostly developed by the time of birth
Lewis Terman
13. The integrator between the outer and inner worlds - as well as the id and the superego. Gives continuity and consistency to behavior by providing a personal point of reference - which relates to the events of the past and actions of the present and o
Mean
Ego
Cones
Erik Erikson
14. Defense mechanism in which complete rejection of the feeling or situation
Virginia Apgar - or Apgar Rating
Abstinence
Teratogens
Denial
15. Read pages 22-25 for charts: Piaget's Stages of Development and Freud's Psychosexual Stages
Hollow phrases
Dyslexia
...
Mendel
16. When people are followed and studied over a long period of time and checked up on at certain points
Middle childhood
Longitudinal Study
Psychometrics
Commissures
17. Who taught women breathing procedures to get through childbirth - including panting?
Lewis Terman
Adolescent Egocentrism
Subjects may be dishonest w/ their answers
Ferdinand Lamaze
18. Who proposed fluid/crystallized intelligence?
Displacement
Norplant
Raymond Cattell
Operant conditioning
19. What is the conception alternative where semen is deposited into the body via a thin tube?
Alternative - or artificial - insemination
Humanistic
Preschooler
Experimental group and control group
20. What is the ring of muscles that makes up the colored part of the eye?
The brain stem
Suppression
Iris
School-age Child
21. What is the term for: a child's understanding that once you leave the room - you are not gone forever - etc.?
Kohlberg
Hypothalamus
Object permanence
Full (46)
22. 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?
Monozygotic twins
Conception
Diaphragm
4
23. What is: long lasting contraceptive where six capsules are injected in a woman's arm?
Positive reinforcer
Crystallized intelligence
Norplant
Ferdinand Lamaze
24. What is: the theory centered on studying how the mind is involved in knowing - learning - remembering - thinking; study how the mind relates to behavior
Independent variable
Sublimation
Neonate
Cognitive
25. Those who are mentally retarded are least likely to also have WHAT condition?
They were not scientifically performed
Ferdinand Lamaze
Endocrine system
Cerebral palsy
26. What is a common learning disability in reading?
Dyslexia
Babbling
Cephalocaudal
Self-concept
27. What is: the theory focused on 'how' of behavior; minds are a continuous flow of information about experiences - and role is to study the mind/behavior as they adapt to the environment
Classical conditioning works more to explain reflexive or unconscious reactions - Operant conditioning works to explain elective actions and reactions
Psychometrics
As soon as the bell was rung
Functionalism
28. What is the name for the bundles of axons - used to communicate between the two halves of brain?
Neonate
Six months
Commissures
Preoperational stage (ages 3-6)
29. A higher number of the correlation coefficient closer to the number one shows a:
Ego
Cross Sectional Study
The more accurate the result
Strong correlation
30. Age at which children begin to share their toys and interact w/ one another - associative play
Autism
If the mom and child have different blood types - the mom's cells can attack the baby.
3
Telegraphic speech
31. Jean Piaget extensively used which research method to study children?
Displacement
3 & 4
Virginia Apgar - or Apgar Rating
Natural observation
32. What coordinates all movements and muscles?
First trimester
Autoimmune Theory
Cerebellum
Six months
33. Third stage in the Kubler-Ross's Stages of Dying: 'If you don't die I will do the following...'
Smell
Nature vs. nurture
Dependent variable
Bargaining
34. What is the very critical period of the first 3 months in the womb?
Medicated delivery
Proximodistal
Prenatal development
Psychoanalytical
35. The first experiment of classical conditioning was done by who?
Infant
Ivan Pavlov
Visual cliff
Appearance - pulse - grimace (reflex) - activity - and respiration
36. Defense mechanism: you deny your feelings and come up with ways to justify your behavior
Abstinence
Rationalization
Convergent thinking
Old-old
37. A type of research done inside of a lab - selected to monitor specific biological changes in individuals by using expensive and sophisticated machinery
Laboratory observation
Rubella
Rationalization
Phenylketonuria (PKU)
38. What two other chemicals do the adrenal glands secrete?
Sympathetic nervous system
William James
Mean
Epinephrine and norepinephrine
39. What is: the fluid filled structure in the inner ear that looks like a snail?
Middle-age Adult
Obstetrician-gynecologist
Cochlea
Independent variable
40. Level 2 of Kohlberg's Theory of Moral Development includes which stages
Kohlberg
Contraception
Self-actualization - Esteem needs - Belonging and love - Safety - Physical needs
3 & 4
41. Who created the first scientific psychology laboratory?
Wilhelm Wundt
4-9
Morphemes
Rite of Passage
42. Defense mechanism: hiding the feelings and not acknowledging them
Norplant
Suppression
Autoimmune Theory
Response extinction
43. What is: attraction to both sexes?
Dialectical perspective
Self-actualization - Esteem needs - Belonging and love - Safety - Physical needs
Subject
Bisexual
44. What is: a mix of gender identity - gender roles - and orientation; recognition of ourselves as sexual beings.
Convergent thinking
Sexual identity
Genetic Mutation
Humanistic
45. What is: the theory to investigate the elements or 'structures' of the mind; classify structures and focus on conscious thought
Organ of corti
Best friend
Structuralism
Sympathetic - parasympathetic - and enteric
46. Id - Ego - and Super Ego were all founded by who?
Because at birth cells aren't well connected (lacking in myelin - or nerve insulation)
Sigmund Freud
Up to 6 months of observation by doctors
Dura mater
47. Why does a gamete have a half set of chromosomes?
You need two - one from each parent - to conceive.
Resilient child
Rationalization
Cross-modal perception
48. Defense mechanism: transferring your thoughts and feelings onto others
Projection
Cut in half
Teratology
Semantics
49. What is the name for depth perception cues made with both eyes?
Binocular cues
99%
Increase
Parallel play
50. First step in Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs such as food water and shelter
Physical needs
Old Age
Cerebellum
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