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DSST Lifespan Developmental Psychology
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1. What is: sheath of thin latex designed to catch sperm upon ejaculation?
Median
Contraception
Automatic
Condom
2. When people of different ages are studied at one particular time
Kleinfelter Syndrome; male
Cerebral anoxia
Cross Sectional Study
Classification
3. Fourth stage in the Kubler-Ross's Stages of Dying: 'There's nothing I can do about this'
Preparatory Depression
The right hand - right eye - and speech
Deferred imitation
John Bowlby's Attachment Theory
4. Parenting styles: 'because I say so'--more prevalent in lower-class families
Authoritarian
Brain and spinal cord
Equilibrium
RU-486
5. Third development of language
Hollow phrases
The cloth monkey
John Watson
Divergent thinking
6. What is: long lasting contraceptive where six capsules are injected in a woman's arm?
Gender role stereotypes
Regression
Maslow
Norplant
7. The process of unassociating the condition with the response
Preconventional Morality
Extinction
Ageism
Egocentrism
8. What is the main symptom of hyperactivity?
Operant Conditioning
Short attention span
Mode
Condom
9. What is the term for oxygen deficiency to the brain?
Excitement - plateau - orgasm - and resolution phases
Cerebral anoxia
Cerebrum
Social health
10. What is the main relay station for incoming sensory signals to the cerebral cortex - and outgoing motor signals from it?
Hour of love
If the mom and child have different blood types - the mom's cells can attack the baby.
Crystallized intelligence
Thalamus
11. Does a somatic (body) cell have a full - or half - set of chromosomes?
The brain
Inner ear
Full (46)
Sexual identity
12. What is a disease also called German measles?
Figurative language
Double blind
Rubella
Natural prepared childbirth
13. What determines physical traits and is inherited from one or both parents?
Classical conditioning
Gene
Lens
9-15
14. What is: the realization that objects stay the same even when they are made to look different?
Conservation
Excitement - plateau - orgasm - and resolution phases
Cognitive
Permissive
15. The best way to teach children values is?
Around age two
Cephalocaudal and Proximodistal
Through actions - doing what you believe is correct
4-9
16. True or False: Kohlberg believed that you go through each step of moral development one @ a time and could not skip them.
Injections
More Knowledgeable Other (MKO)
Displacement
True
17. What is: the most developed - and largest (80%) - part of the brain?
Limbic system
Cerebral cortex
Celibacy
Adrenal glands
18. 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?
Fit in
Mode
Diaphragm
Old Age
19. What is: an M.D. who specializes in OB-GYN?
Fetal Alcohol Syndrome
Obstetrician-gynecologist
Kleinfelter Syndrome; male
Corpus callosum
20. What is: the type of thought that has to do with factual information--trivia - vocabulary - science - history?
Alzheimer's Disease
Emergency contraception
Zygote
Crystallized intelligence
21. A lower number of the correlation coefficient - closer to the number zero shows a:
Weak correlation
Zone of Proximal Development
Self-esteem
Id
22. A medical doctor with a degree who specializes in psychotherapy - who can prescribe drugs
Psychiatrist
5 & 6
John Watson
Gerontology
23. When one variable increase - another variable increases. We call this a what?
Hollow phrases
Positive Correlation
The more accurate the result
IUD
24. How is IQ calculated?
Mental age/Chronological age - x 100
A will
Dyscalcula
Put babies on their backs to sleep - and not have anything extra (toys - pillows etc) in the bed or crib.
25. What are the three different areas of the Autonomic Nervous System?
Temporal lobe
Thalamus
Sympathetic - parasympathetic - and enteric
Multiple caretakers
26. What is the opening of the iris - which looks black?
Pupil
Middle childhood
Retina
99%
27. What is: the ear's interpretation of a sound's frequency
The more accurate the result
Rubella
Six or seven months
Pitch
28. What is: a mix of gender identity - gender roles - and orientation; recognition of ourselves as sexual beings.
Sexual identity
Psychoanalytic theory
Mainstreaming
Teratogens
29. What is being able to reproduce knowledge from memory?
The brain
Recall
Set high standards - assist along the way
10
30. Those who are mentally retarded are least likely to also have WHAT condition?
Socialization
Base of the skull; size of a pea
Infertility
Cerebral palsy
31. Which stage of development is: Intimacy vs. Isolation? (emotional ties with others)
Biological
Humanistic Theorists
Young Adult
Stage 4
32. What is the name of the largest commissure?
Explicit role instruction
Parasympathetic
6
Corpus callosum
33. The scientific study of words and sentences
Ageism
Maslow
Semantics
Baby Albert
34. Which of these diseases can cause miscarriage - stillbirth - heart defects - deafness - and other problems?
5
Gender role stereotypes
Rubella
Genes
35. Who conducted a longitudinal study of smart kids - resulting that they become happy adults?
Freud
Projection
Abortion
Lewis Terman
36. Parenting styles: makes few demands - hardly ever punishes
Sublimation
Permissive
Recognition
9-15
37. What is: growth from the head downward (head develops before rest of the body)?
Excitement - plateau - orgasm - and resolution phases
Multiple caretakers
Proximodistal
Cephalocaudal
38. Which stage of development is: Identity vs. Role Confusion? (who am I)
Old-old
Laboratory observation
Dyslexia
Adolescent
39. List the levels (in order) of Kohlberg's Theory of Moral Development
Syphillis and rubella
Suppression
Wear-and-Tear Theory
Preconventional - conventional - postconventional
40. First step in Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs such as food water and shelter
Dependent variable
Physical needs
Have more bland personalities and often difficult for them to create and maintain intimate relationships as they have a lack of emotional depth
Correlation Research
41. What is the variable that the experiment is trying to test?
Operant conditioning
Because at birth cells aren't well connected (lacking in myelin - or nerve insulation)
Dependent variable
William James
42. What is: the number of full wavelengths that pass through a point in a given amount of time
Frequency
Gestalt psychology
If the mom and child have different blood types - the mom's cells can attack the baby.
Infertility
43. What is: the amount of pressure produced by a sound wave - measured in decibels?
Thalamus
Wilhelm Wundt
Amplitude
Denial (Shock)
44. What is: a person's attraction to other people?
Fetal Alcohol Syndrome
Pupil
Behaviorism
Sexual orientation
45. Cultural bias not generally known across all subcultures
Psychometrics
Biological; Behavioral; Cognitive; Humanistic; Psychoanalytical; Structuralism; Functionalism; Nature vs. Nurture
Content validity
Gender role stereotypes
46. What is: term for how much someone values and respects themselves?
Middle ear
Response extinction
Self-esteem
Gonads
47. Who created the first scientific psychology laboratory?
Class inclusion
Phonemes
Homosexual
Wilhelm Wundt
48. The most direct measure of syntax in middle childhood is what?
Placebo effect
John Watson
Schema
The meanlinkk of utterance (how long their sentences are)
49. Who created functionalism?
Kohlberg
Reaction Formation
William James
Classical conditioning works more to explain reflexive or unconscious reactions - Operant conditioning works to explain elective actions and reactions
50. A term used to describe something similar in structure or organization
Pitch
Qualitative
Harry Harlow
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