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DSST Lifespan Developmental Psychology
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1. Anything which makes a behavior more likely to occur
3
Placebo effect
More Knowledgeable Other (MKO)
Reinforcer
2. States that infants need to form at least one strong attachment such as to a parent - in order to develop normally
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3. What is: generalizations about each gender - such as that men are aggressive and logical - and women are nurturing and emotional
Gender role stereotypes
Punishment
Self-concept
Ivan Pavlov
4. What is: focusing attention on a small amount of information?
Response extinction
Cerebrum
Egocentrism
Selective attention
5. Who taught women breathing procedures to get through childbirth - including panting?
Correlation Research
Dependent variable
Ferdinand Lamaze
Cellular Theory
6. What is: the theory focused on the individual's unconscious motivations?
Psychoanalytical
John Watson
5
Deferred imitation
7. How is IQ calculated?
Mental age/Chronological age - x 100
Id
Independent variable
Self-efficacy
8. Theory that every function in the child's cultural development appears twice: first between people - then inside the child.
Oral contraceptives
...
Bisexual
Social development or social cognition
9. What syndrome occurs when someone two X and one Y chromosome...and what gender does this make?
As soon as the bell was rung
Kleinfelter Syndrome; male
Excitement - plateau - orgasm - and resolution phases
Stage 5
10. Deaf children will often be more proficient at communicating through _______ than do hearing infants - often being able to sign at ten months old
Content validity
Stage 3
Mean
Gestures
11. Where a group of people live together and the children of all the people are raised by one or two people
Kibbutz
More Knowledgeable Other (MKO)
Abortion
Closure
12. What does the left half of the brain control?
The right hand - right eye - and speech
Functionalism
B.F. Skinner
Preoperational stage (ages 3-6)
13. Defense mechanism: hiding the feelings and not acknowledging them
Suppression
Bandura
Social learning theory
Object permanence
14. Biological theories of aging: as our bodies age - our immune systems become less effective at fighting disease - stress - etc.
Modeling
Autoimmune Theory
Daydreaming
B.F. Skinner
15. A collection of data from all cases or people in the chosen set
Socialization
A census
Avoid punishment
Reaction Formation
16. Does a gamete (reproductive) cell have full or half set of chromosomes?
Half (23)
Gestures
On chromosomes
Bell would ring - then feed the dogs - Dogs would salivate when given food - Over time dogs began to salivate simply at ring of bell
17. Is there currently a cure for Alzheimer's disease?
Obstetrician-gynecologist - family practitioner - or midwife
Cognitive
Echolalia
No
18. Cultural bias not generally known across all subcultures
Psychometrics
Phenylketonuria (PKU)
Emergency contraception
Stage 5
19. Categories of old age: 85+
Stage 1
1 & 2
More Knowledgeable Other (MKO)
Old-old
20. The name most associated with operant conditioning is who?
B.F. Skinner
Timbre
Clinical psychologist
Divergent thinking
21. What is the term for fraternal twins?
Corpus callosum
Conservation
4
Dizygotic twins
22. What disorder causes a person to have difficulty concentration - be easily distracted - or constantly in motion?
Safety
Cochlea
Sampling
ADHD
23. What is the term for identical twins?
Cerebral anoxia
Critical period
Monozygotic twins
Ivan Pavlov
24. What is the conception alternative where fertilization of the egg is done outside the body - and then transferred back into the body?
In vitro fertilization
Correlational research
Dura mater
Inner ear
25. Which part of the ANS is the arousing part of the system?
9-15
Sympathetic nervous system
Preconventional - conventional - postconventional
Endocrine system
26. What is: sexual self-stimulation or masturbation?
Equilibrium
Biological; Behavioral; Cognitive; Humanistic; Psychoanalytical; Structuralism; Functionalism; Nature vs. Nurture
Thalamus
Autoerotic behavior
27. A type of research done inside of a lab - selected to monitor specific biological changes in individuals by using expensive and sophisticated machinery
Psychological maltreatment
The more accurate the result
Pons
Laboratory observation
28. The ethical component of the personality and provides the moral standards by which the ego operates
Stage 4
Super Ego
More Knowledgeable Other (MKO)
Socialization
29. Stages of friendship: two way - fair weathered
Random assignment
Informed consent
Pituitary gland
6-12
30. Biological theories of aging: we only have a certain number of cells - which are programmed to only replicate so many times before they are finished and the body begins to deteriorate
Endocrine system
Cellular Theory
Holophrase syntax
Women - men
31. What is: a statistical measure of typical scores for categories of information?
Babbling
Displacement
Neonate
Developmental norm
32. In the Harlow experiment: between the wire monkey+bottle - and cloth monkey+no bottle - which fake mother did the babies prefer?
Mental health
Inner ear
Classification
The cloth monkey
33. Defense mechanism in which complete rejection of the feeling or situation
Denial
Mean
Biological
1 in 14 -000
34. Fourth stage in the Kubler-Ross's Stages of Dying: 'There's nothing I can do about this'
Timbre
Preparatory Depression
Psychological maltreatment
Stage 4
35. What is: the method to prevent an egg and sperm from being able to access each other?
Mental health
Contraception
Operation
Preparatory Depression
36. Who created the first scientific psychology laboratory?
Wilhelm Wundt
Alternative - or artificial - insemination
Sexual orientation
True
37. What is: the type of thought that has to do with factual information--trivia - vocabulary - science - history?
The Montessori Method
Norplant
Crystallized intelligence
Diaphragm
38. Stage in which you see the right action as what satisfies your personal needs; a person becomes aware of two different viewpoints
Fluid intelligence
Stage 2
Kohlberg
Sigmund Freud
39. 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
Biological
William James
The brain stem
40. What part of the central nervous system controls all necessary functions of the body?
The brain
Carl Rogers
Parasympathetic
William James
41. What is another name for a sound wave's amplitude?
Condom
Loudness
Jean Piaget
Intestate
42. What is the perception characteristic that: you don't have to think about it for it to happen?
Gender
Infant
Automatic
Retina
43. What is the term for lack of responsiveness to other people?
Autism
Phonemes
Adolescent
Cerebral anoxia
44. How do you fix the problem of mother's cells attacking the baby's?
Injections
Gender conservation
True
Amniocentesis
45. Individual sounds w/ in a word
Spermicides
Figurative language
Phonemes
Preoperational stage (ages 3-6)
46. Types of child play in chronological order:
Gender
Unoccupied behavior - onlooker - solitary independent (plays alone) - parallel play (plays around but not w/ others) - associative - cooperative play
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
Fluid intelligence
47. What is: expression of your maleness or femaleness on a daily basis?
Gender roles
Stage 6
Mental health
Extinction
48. What determines physical traits and is inherited from one or both parents?
Thalamus
Gene
Cellular Theory
Subject
49. How does the pupil work?
3 & 4
Bias
Pons
Opens and closes to let the correct amount of light in
50. List the levels (in order) of Kohlberg's Theory of Moral Development
Limbic system
Abstinence
Preconventional - conventional - postconventional
Selective