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DSST Lifespan Developmental Psychology
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. What is: hatred and fear of homosexuals?
Homophobia
2
Sampling
Operant Conditioning
2. By the time they reach middle childhood - most girls will identify with one and only one _______.
4-9
Response extinction
Best friend
5 & 6
3. Who thought of the mind as a stream of consciousness--a flow of emotions - sensations and thoughts?
Sweet - bitter - salty - sour
William James
Cognitive theorist
Authoritarian
4. What do doctors agree is the best way to feed babies?
Breast-feeding
Psychometrics
Loudness
Young Adult
5. What are the two parts responsible for bending light and focusing it in the back of the eye?
Infants were placed on a solid - opaque surface - and the mothers were placed at the end of the table - where the opaque ended and glass begun. The infants didn't want to cross the glass because they could see the distance between themselves and the
Cooing
Cornea and lens
Family situation - the world around you - lifespan - and maturity.
6. A morpheme that must be w/ a word
Organ of corti
Bound morpheme
Bisexual
Social health
7. Categories of old age: 75-84
Young-old
Middle-old
Kohlberg
Rubella
8. Parenting styles: 'because I say so'--more prevalent in lower-class families
Full (46)
Authoritarian
Set high standards - assist along the way
Dependent variable
9. How many different theories of language development are there?
Three
Fetal Alcohol Syndrome
Stage 2
Automatic - selective - contextual - and creative
10. What fluid covers the brain - and is used to transport chemicals and regulate pressure?
Stage 3
On chromosomes
Spiritual - emotional - mental - and social health
Cerebrospinal fluid
11. A signal to society that certain rules have changed - this person is no longer a child
Proximodistal
Rite of Passage
Teratogens
Nature vs. nurture
12. Which receptor is more sensitive to light - but is not used to view color?
Dyslexia
Drugs - diseases (like HIV - rubella) - and pollutants (mercury - radiation - etc)
Thalamus
Rods
13. Age at which children begin to share their toys and interact w/ one another - associative play
Full (46)
Deferred imitation
3
Selective attention
14. What is the term to describe the thinking part of health?
Id
23 pairs
Mental health
Independent variable
15. What is: a person's attraction to other people?
Rubella
Sexual orientation
Self-efficacy
Mental health
16. Which lobe is related to vision?
Structuralism
Midwife
Watching their parents
Occipital lobe
17. 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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18. Applied when a test measures something more than one facet
Stimulus generalization
Androgynous
Cerebellum
Content validity
19. What is: attraction to both sexes?
Social aspect of language
B.F. Skinner
Content validity
Bisexual
20. Categories of old age: 65-74
Preconventional - conventional - postconventional
Kubler-Ross's Stages of Dying
Young-old
Temporal lobe
21. What are the three things to monitor - to measure temperament in infants?
Reciprocal determinism
Irritability - social responsiveness - and activity level
Anger (Emotion)
Safety
22. What is: an M.D. who provides comprehensive care for people of all ages?
B.F. Skinner
Psychoanalytic theory
The Premack Principle
Family practitioner
23. Level 1 of Kohlberg's Theory of Moral Development includes which stages
The meanlinkk of utterance (how long their sentences are)
3
1 & 2
Contextual
24. What is the name for depth perception cues made with both eyes?
Biological
Clinical psychologist
All drugs - including over the counter - aspirin - coffee
Binocular cues
25. Who introduced the scientific method?
Francis Bacon--16th century
Mode
Classical conditioning
Have more bland personalities and often difficult for them to create and maintain intimate relationships as they have a lack of emotional depth
26. Which lobe is related to voluntary muscles and intelligence?
Excitement - plateau - orgasm - and resolution phases
Frontal lobe
The brain
Extinction
27. Gilligan believed that ________ conflicted between self and other - while ________ conflicted between self and justice
Biological; Behavioral; Cognitive; Humanistic; Psychoanalytical; Structuralism; Functionalism; Nature vs. Nurture
Women - men
Family situation - the world around you - lifespan - and maturity.
Resilient child
28. What is the perception characteristic that: if you have heard a movie is scary - you might be more inclined to get scared?
Because at birth cells aren't well connected (lacking in myelin - or nerve insulation)
Contextual
Id
Regression
29. What is: sheath of thin latex designed to catch sperm upon ejaculation?
Gentle birth
Mendel
Belonging and love
Condom
30. If a mother catches rubella in first trimester - what is the chance that the fetus is affected?
Extrinsic reinforcer
Preconventional Morality
90%
Appearance - pulse - grimace (reflex) - activity - and respiration
31. Observing someone's behavior and basing our own behavior on it
9-15
Clinical psychologist
Modeling
Pupil
32. Experiment when none of the doctors - researchers - and participants know who is getting the real drug
50%
Avoid punishment
Invincibility fable
Double blind
33. A chronic condition that deteriorates the nerve fibers in the brain controlling memory - speech - and personality. Early symptoms including personality changes - lack of interest in activities - and change in sleep patterns.
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34. What is: attraction to the same sex?
Classical conditioning
Binocular cues
Homosexual
Sampling
35. Disagreed w/ Kohlberg's Theory of Moral Development because his subjects were mainly male
Cross-modal perception
Gilligan
Nurture
Short attention span
36. What is: your feelings and reactions
Operation
Suppression
Homosexual
Emotional health
37. What is the term for the death of a child under one year - for no apparent reason?
Id - Ego - Super Ego
Sudden Infant Death Syndrome
Left hand - left eye - and simple comprehension
Gonads
38. Stages of friendship: autonomous - interdependent
Selera
Mentally retarded
12+
Self-concept
39. Imitation of a past-observed behavior
Deferred imitation
Emotional health
Gestalt psychology
Alternative - or artificial - insemination
40. Who created the first scientific psychology laboratory?
Wilhelm Wundt
Experimental research
Homophobia
Conception
41. What is: the process of working something out in your head; shows the difference between young children (act and try things out) and older (can do things in their heads)
Iris
They were not scientifically performed
Operation
3-7
42. Level 2 of Kohlberg's Theory of Moral Development includes which stages
Automatic
3 & 4
Suppression
Binocular cues
43. A baby repeating what you just said
The brain/the cerebral cortex
Morality of Care
Drugs - diseases (like HIV - rubella) - and pollutants (mercury - radiation - etc)
Echolalia
44. Which part of the ANS is the calming part of the system?
Cut in half
Parasympathetic
Perception
Kibbutz
45. Which protective brain layer is mostly blood vessels?
Cooing
Diaphragm
Pia mater
Cerebral anoxia
46. What percent of children in kindergarten are immunized?
As soon as the bell was rung
99%
Women - men
Preoperational stage (ages 3-6)
47. What is: structures in the cerebral cortex related to memory and emotion?
Humanistic
Cellular Theory
Independent variable
Limbic system
48. Visible signs of aging include:
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49. Environment in which two (or more) children sit side by side - or near each other - and play without interacting with the other child or trying to influence them in any way. Most children engage in this type of enviornment.
Operation
Parallel play
Figurative language
Erogenous zones
50. How much are the eyes developed in newborns?
Not fully developed; but can distinguish color - track movement - and bright objects.
Placebo effect
Androgynous
Ego