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DSST Lifespan Developmental Psychology
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. When a researcher observes and studies subjects w/o interacting or interfering w/ them
Fluid intelligence
3
Naturalistic observation
Women - men
2. Rang the bell each time he fed the dog; eventually how early did the dogs start salivating?
Telegraphic speech
Zygote
Selective attention
As soon as the bell was rung
3. Categories of old age: 65-74
Cerebral cortex
4
Social health
Young-old
4. Dying w/o a will
Intestate
Longitudinal Study
Infant
Semantics
5. What purpose do fontanels have?
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6. Stages of friendship: autonomous - interdependent
12+
Preconventional - conventional - postconventional
Social health
Ivan Pavlov
7. What is: the way the brain organizes and gives meaning to information provided by the senses?
Daydreaming
Perception
Subjects may be dishonest w/ their answers
Reaction Formation
8. Which stage of development is: Intimacy vs. Isolation? (emotional ties with others)
Gestures
Young Adult
Kleinfelter Syndrome; male
Mental age/Chronological age - x 100
9. Teaches that when a certain action is performed - there are consequences--reinforces good behavior with extrinsic/intrinsic reinforcers
Gender
Anger (Emotion)
Operant conditioning
Clinical psychologist
10. We smell when airborne molecules of an odor reach tiny receptor cells in the top of the nasal cavity; what is the name of this receptor area?
Bandura
Cross-modal perception
Olfactory epithelium
Sound waves
11. Which part of the ANS is the arousing part of the system?
Psychiatrist
Sympathetic nervous system
Phonemes
Cornea
12. Stage at which children are egocentric and will therefore think divorce is their fault
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
No
Social health
Preoperational stage (ages 3-6)
13. What are the four characteristics of perception?
Multiple caretakers
Middle childhood
Automatic - selective - contextual - and creative
Random assignment
14. What gland releases hormones that regulate hormone secretions of other glands?
Dyscalcula
The more accurate the result
Anger (Emotion)
Pituitary gland
15. What are the two different classifications of intelligence?
Fluid intelligence and crystal intelligence
Reaction Formation
Biological
Freud
16. Anything which makes a behavior more likely to occur
Reinforcer
Adolescent Egocentrism
Fetal tobacco syndrome
Contraception
17. Stages of friendship: one way assistance
Permissive
4-9
Thalamus
Random assignment
18. The average of a data set
Automatic - selective - contextual - and creative
Mode
Mean
Stillbirth
19. Once the disease strikes - an individual w/ Alzheimer's disease usually has their life expectancy is:
Jean Piaget
Cut in half
B.F. Skinner
Correlation Research
20. What are the four layers that protect the brain?
Chomsky
The skull - dura mater membrane - arachnoid layer - and pia mater.
Inner ear
Bandura
21. Self-aware - recognized - defined
The brain
9-15
Self-concept
Social learning theory
22. What types of drugs can hurt a developing fetus if taken by the mother?
All drugs - including over the counter - aspirin - coffee
Raymond Cattell
Psychiatrist
Invincibility fable
23. What is the part of the ear that includes the eardrum - anvil - and stirrup?
Natural prepared childbirth
Visual cliff
Brain and spinal cord
Middle ear
24. After how many cigarettes will the fetus definitely have problems--with a 50% greater risk of childhood cancer?
Babbling
Childhood depression
Experimental research
Five
25. What is the main symptom of hyperactivity?
Emergency contraception
Hippocampus
Short attention span
Cerebral palsy
26. Biological theories of aging: like everything else in the world - the human body wears out
Social aspect of language
Wear-and-Tear Theory
Rubella
John Watson
27. Which stage of development is: Generativity vs. Stagnation? (giving to the next generation)
Informed consent
Self-esteem
Osteoporosis
Middle-age Adult
28. What is the main relay station for incoming sensory signals to the cerebral cortex - and outgoing motor signals from it?
Amniocentesis
Psychological Tests
More Knowledgeable Other (MKO)
Thalamus
29. Jean Piaget extensively used which research method to study children?
Preschooler
Bargaining
Natural observation
Authoritative
30. Third step in Maslow's Hierarchy of needs in which you may want to meet needs of belongings and love through relationships
Belonging and love
Experimental group and control group
It measures a child against their peers - in that moment
Self-actualization - Esteem needs - Belonging and love - Safety - Physical needs
31. What is: the theory centered on studying how the mind is involved in knowing - learning - remembering - thinking; study how the mind relates to behavior
Response extinction
Cognitive
Deferred imitation
Autonomic Nervous System
32. Recent research supports that children learn from listening to their parents talk to them in 'baby talk'; which aspect of language is this?
Functionalism
Freud
Accommodation
Social aspect of language
33. Second stage in the Kubler-Ross's Stages of Dying: 'This is unfair. Why me?'
Androgynous
Positive Correlation
Fetal tobacco syndrome
Anger (Emotion)
34. What is: the type of thought that has to do with factual information--trivia - vocabulary - science - history?
Conservation
9-15
John Watson
Crystallized intelligence
35. What is: sheath of thin latex designed to catch sperm upon ejaculation?
Subjects may be dishonest w/ their answers
Harry Harlow
Through actions - doing what you believe is correct
Condom
36. What are: chemicals designed to kill sperm?
Fetal tobacco syndrome
Phonemes
Lens
Spermicides
37. Stages of friendship: Momentary playmates
Childhood depression
Bargaining
Random assignment
3-7
38. What is the perception characteristic that: if you have heard a movie is scary - you might be more inclined to get scared?
The skull - dura mater membrane - arachnoid layer - and pia mater.
Contextual
Physical needs
Habituation
39. What is another name for a newborn?
Sound waves
Contextual
Neonate
Biological; Behavioral; Cognitive; Humanistic; Psychoanalytical; Structuralism; Functionalism; Nature vs. Nurture
40. The best way to teach children values is?
Through actions - doing what you believe is correct
Loudness
Behavioral
Negative reinforcer
41. The process of unassociating the condition with the response
Fluid intelligence
Fetal Alcohol Syndrome
Extinction
Hour of love
42. What is the medical means to terminate a pregnancy?
Stage 5
Abortion
Gerontology
Median
43. When can a person's short term memory become incapacitated?
As they age
Cerebrospinal fluid
Correlation Research
23 pairs
44. Which stage of development is: Initiative vs. Guilt? (trying different roles)
Sudden Infant Death Syndrome
No correlation
Preschooler
Infertility
45. Types of child play in chronological order:
Androgynous
Gestalt psychology
Unoccupied behavior - onlooker - solitary independent (plays alone) - parallel play (plays around but not w/ others) - associative - cooperative play
Sexual orientation
46. A method of modifying behavior - by ignoring the behavior so you don't have the response
Response extinction
True
Full (46)
Young-old
47. Which stage of development is: Industry vs. Inferiority? (working with others)
Infertility
Alzheimer's Disease
School-age Child
Class inclusion
48. What two things make up the central nervous system?
Cones
Pia mater
Brain and spinal cord
Cerebellum
49. 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.
Through actions - doing what you believe is correct
Divergent thinkers
Invincibility fable
Cerebrum
50. What thought process is supported by the example that: infants are given an object to hold - and then can recognize by sight the object.
Social aspect of language
Brain and spinal cord
Cross-modal perception
Sexually transmitted diseases