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DSST Lifespan Developmental Psychology

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Not physical abuse but when the child feels rejected or feels failure






2. When a researcher observes and studies subjects w/o interacting or interfering w/ them






3. What is: the type of thought that has to do with factual information--trivia - vocabulary - science - history?






4. Rogers and Maslow are both:






5. What is: a person's attraction to other people?






6. What are the three parts of memory?






7. Which lobe is related to hearing?






8. Defense mechanism: transferring your thoughts and feelings onto others






9. Defense mechanism: a type of displacement - a redirection of the feeling into a socially productive activity






10. What is the name for the two halves of the brain?






11. What is the perception characteristic that: you don't have to think about it for it to happen?






12. Who believed that the unconscious motivates our actions - through the id - ego - and superego?






13. Which stage of development is: Generativity vs. Stagnation? (giving to the next generation)






14. Who created functionalism?






15. What is: the gland that controls release of hormones from the gonads?






16. The final stage of Maslow's Hierarchy of needs. A stage you may never actually meet.






17. How many different theories of language development are there?






18. What two other chemicals do the adrenal glands secrete?






19. What is: a progesterone shot given every three months?






20. What do doctors agree is the best way to feed babies?






21. Who argued that classical conditioning explains some behaviors - but operant conditioning plays a much larger role?






22. Means that the participants must know the content of the experiment and be warned of any risk or harm






23. Who coined the Theory of Moral Development?






24. What is the term for low IQ and mental age of about 4 years old?






25. What is: the process by which a person takes material into their mind from the environment - which may mean changing sensory evidence to make it fit?






26. Which stage of development is: Ego Integrity vs. Despair? (what they have done with their life)






27. Which lobe is related to voluntary muscles and intelligence?






28. What is the clear membrane in front of the eye that protects it?






29. What is the drug to cause an abortion in the first 9 weeks of pregnancy?






30. What two things make up the central nervous system?






31. What part of the central nervous system controls all necessary functions of the body?






32. A morpheme that must be w/ a word






33. Why is self-report data not as reliable as other research methods?






34. What is: where the lens changes its curves to help the eye focus?






35. What is the term for oxygen deficiency to the brain?






36. The name most associated with operant conditioning is who?






37. Putting disabled students w/ normal students






38. What is the middle number in a set of data called?






39. What is: the theory based on biology; belief that behavior and personality are linked to genetics






40. What percent of children in kindergarten are immunized?






41. A term used to describe something similar in structure or organization






42. What is the factor that always stays the same?






43. What is the term for lack of responsiveness to other people?






44. What are areas in a baby's skull where cartilage hasn't yet hardened into bone?






45. What section of the nervous system is responsible for the 'fight or flight' response?






46. Why is autism rare in children for the first 2 1/2 years?

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47. Who did the study between stimulus and response with dogs; and what did he discover?






48. 1 -2 -2 -2 -3 -3 -5 -8 -9 -9. What is the mode?






49. What is: when adolescents truly believe themselves to be the center of the universe to those around them?






50. An environment where children live and attend school







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