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DSST Lifespan Developmental Psychology
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1. What two things make up the central nervous system?
Brain and spinal cord
Spiritual health
Corpus callosum
William James
2. Level 2 of Kohlberg's Theory of Moral Development includes which stages
3 & 4
Commissures
Pons
Longitudinal fissure
3. Types of child play in chronological order:
Loudness
Around age two
Creative
Unoccupied behavior - onlooker - solitary independent (plays alone) - parallel play (plays around but not w/ others) - associative - cooperative play
4. Who argued that if psychology was a true science - then psychologists should only study what they could see and measure (behaviorist theory)?
Emergency contraception
Mental health
John Watson
Spiritual - emotional - mental - and social health
5. What is: the bumps on top of the tongue that contain taste buds?
4
Jean Piaget
Papillae
Gilligan
6. Stages that a person goes through when they find out they have an incurable disease or find out they are going to die
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7. What is another term for the system of hearing?
Fontanels
Middle-old
Pituitary gland
Auditory System
8. What is: your thoughts - beliefs - attitudes - and values
Mental health
Belonging and love
Dependent variable
Adolescent
9. What is: attraction to the same sex?
6-12
Homosexual
Mentally retarded
John Watson
10. What is the term to describe the thinking part of health?
Sigmund Freud
Mental health
Ivan Pavlov
Authoritarian
11. Visible signs of aging include:
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12. Third development of language
Epinephrine and norepinephrine
Gene
Explicit role instruction
Hollow phrases
13. Rang the bell each time he fed the dog; eventually how early did the dogs start salivating?
Conceive at younger ages
As soon as the bell was rung
Pitch
Biological
14. What is: the realization that objects stay the same even when they are made to look different?
Hypokinetic diseases
Set high standards - assist along the way
Conservation
As they age
15. What is the term for low IQ and mental age of about 4 years old?
Rh positive
Cerebrum
Mentally retarded
William James
16. What are the four characteristics of perception?
Raymond Cattell
Automatic - selective - contextual - and creative
Operant Conditioning
Self-report data
17. What do children in early language development not understand?
Sexually transmitted diseases
Figurative language
Operation
The more accurate the result
18. What is: the ear's interpretation of a sound's frequency
Pitch
Safety
Gender
Accommodation
19. What is: dynamic blend of our experiences - heredity - environment - etc. which determines how we react to problems/issues?
Personality
Classification
Spiritual health
Middle childhood
20. Is there currently a cure for Alzheimer's disease?
1 in 14 -000
Increase
Sexual orientation
No
21. The scientific study of words and sentences
Phonemes
Semantics
Morality of Justice
Erik Erikson
22. What is: attraction to the opposite sex?
Acceptance
Operant Conditioning
Abstinence
Heterosexual
23. What is: areas of the body which - when touched - lead to sexual arousal?
Erogenous zones
Content validity
Rh positive
Correlation coefficient
24. A way of obtaining information about a specific type of information in which questionnaires are given out to participants who are then asked to answer the questions to the best of their ability
IUD
Teratogens
Survey
Three percent
25. Why does a gamete have a half set of chromosomes?
You need two - one from each parent - to conceive.
12+
Brain and spinal cord
Extinction
26. What is the part of the ear that includes the pinna and external auditory canal?
Echolalia
William James
Miscarriages or stillbirths
Outer ear
27. Who conducted a longitudinal study of smart kids - resulting that they become happy adults?
Lewis Terman
A census
Correlational research
1 in 14 -000
28. The best way to teach children values is?
Fetal tobacco syndrome
Through actions - doing what you believe is correct
Kleinfelter Syndrome; male
Belonging and love
29. What is the very critical period of the first 3 months in the womb?
Prenatal development
The brain/the cerebral cortex
Convergent thinking
Attention Deficit Disorder and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
30. Piaget believed that the individual actively constructs knowledge about the world--what is the term for this?
Pituitary gland
Cognitive theorist
John Bowlby's Attachment Theory
Structuralism
31. Biological theories of aging: like everything else in the world - the human body wears out
Classical conditioning
Class inclusion
Six or seven months
Wear-and-Tear Theory
32. What are the three things to monitor - to measure temperament in infants?
Consciousness
Wilhelm Wundt
Irritability - social responsiveness - and activity level
Stage 2
33. When one variable increases while another variable decreases. We call this a what?
Loudness
Dyslexia
Negative Correlation
Pitch
34. What is the part in the back of the eye that includes receptors called rods and cones?
Retina
Left hand - left eye - and simple comprehension
Fetal tobacco syndrome
Preparatory Depression
35. The final stage of Maslow's Hierarchy of needs. A stage you may never actually meet.
Self-actualization
Emotional neglect
Adolescent Egocentrism
Rods
36. Third step in Maslow's Hierarchy of needs in which you may want to meet needs of belongings and love through relationships
1 & 2
Survey
Cerebrospinal fluid
Belonging and love
37. What is: a person's attraction to other people?
Autoerotic behavior
Absolute threshold
Sexual orientation
The Premack Principle
38. When people are followed and studied over a long period of time and checked up on at certain points
Harry Harlow
Stage 2
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
Longitudinal Study
39. Who created structuralism?
Endocrine system
Divergent thinking
Wilhelm Wundt
Spiritual health
40. When people of different ages are studied at one particular time
Cross Sectional Study
The brain/the cerebral cortex
In vitro fertilization
Genetic Mutation
41. The negative effects of sensory deprivation (not as much attention) are more likely to _______ w/ the length of the stage.
Hippocampus
Increase
Oral contraceptives
Binocular cues
42. What is being able to reproduce knowledge from memory?
Mainstreaming
Recall
Unoccupied behavior - onlooker - solitary independent (plays alone) - parallel play (plays around but not w/ others) - associative - cooperative play
Gonads
43. Deaf children will often be more proficient at communicating through _______ than do hearing infants - often being able to sign at ten months old
Classical conditioning
Gestures
Organ of corti
Wilhelm Wundt
44. Defined as diseases which are either related to or caused by a sedentary lifestyle - in other words - caused by the lack of regular exercise or activity
Six months
Hypokinetic diseases
Multiple caretakers
Zygote
45. When can a person's short term memory become incapacitated?
Cerebral palsy
As they age
Dura mater
The meanlinkk of utterance (how long their sentences are)
46. Stages of friendship: Momentary playmates
Bias
A will
6-12
3-7
47. Self-esteem begins forming in:
Middle childhood
Natural prepared childbirth
Stage 5
Cross-modal perception
48. Four steps of the scientific method include:
1) Gather info - 2) Generate hypothesis - 3) Test hypothesis - 4) Revise
The brain stem
Appearance - pulse - grimace (reflex) - activity - and respiration
Gerontology
49. How does the pupil work?
Classical conditioning works more to explain reflexive or unconscious reactions - Operant conditioning works to explain elective actions and reactions
Survey
Opens and closes to let the correct amount of light in
Hollow phrases
50. A link between a stimulus and a response in which a person or animal associates or substitutes a neutral stimulus with the actual stimulus
True
Preparatory Depression
Classical conditioning
Cerebrospinal fluid