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DSST Lifespan Developmental Psychology
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1. What is the term for: a child's understanding that once you leave the room - you are not gone forever - etc.?
Object permanence
Rh positive
Mental health
Recognition
2. What is the method in which a variable and constant are use to test theories?
Homophobia
Autoimmune Theory
Gender role stereotypes
Experimental research
3. When people are followed and studied over a long period of time and checked up on at certain points
Convergent thinking
Middle ear
1 in 14 -000
Longitudinal Study
4. When can a person's short term memory become incapacitated?
Hypokinetic diseases
As they age
William James
Mendel
5. What is: dynamic blend of our experiences - heredity - environment - etc. which determines how we react to problems/issues?
Alzheimer's Disease
You need two - one from each parent - to conceive.
Personality
The right hand - right eye - and speech
6. What is the name of the largest commissure?
Preschooler
Quantitative
On chromosomes
Corpus callosum
7. Who did the experiment with baby monkeys about affection and love?
Vygotsky
No
Androgynous
Harry Harlow
8. What is the part in the back of the eye that includes receptors called rods and cones?
Retina
Pupil
Positive reinforcer
Lewis Terman
9. The number which occurs the most often
Full (46)
Gender roles
Self-actualization - Esteem needs - Belonging and love - Safety - Physical needs
Mode
10. What is: the amount of pressure produced by a sound wave - measured in decibels?
Emergency contraception
Amplitude
Stage 3
Fluid intelligence and crystal intelligence
11. A number between +1 and -1 that measures the strength between two variables
Correlation coefficient
Amplitude
Carl Rogers
Cephalocaudal and Proximodistal
12. 1 + 5 + 6. What is the mean?
Hypothalamus
Women - men
Multiple caretakers
4
13. Who introduced the scientific method?
Francis Bacon--16th century
Preparatory Depression
Avoid punishment
Socialization
14. Fourth development of language
Telegraphic speech
Reinforcer
Longitudinal Study
Biological; Behavioral; Cognitive; Humanistic; Psychoanalytical; Structuralism; Functionalism; Nature vs. Nurture
15. People who are working that experience discrimination because of their age - whether too young or too old are victims of what?
Carl Rogers
Ageism
Peer group
Functionalism
16. 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.
17. Which thought process is: a set of steps is followed to come to a correct answer; used in academic (math/science) settings?
Naturalistic observation
Convergent thinking
Best friend
Old-old
18. What are: general term for the reproductive organs in a male or female?
Toddler
Gonads
Best friend
Condom
19. Stages that a person goes through when they find out they have an incurable disease or find out they are going to die
20. Does a gamete (reproductive) cell have full or half set of chromosomes?
Childhood depression
Smell
Half (23)
Stage 5
21. What is: the ability to associate something from one area of knowledge - and use that to determine or imagine what it is like in other aspects?
Cross-modal perception
Slowed growth - body/face malfunctions - nervous system disorders - mental retardation.
Self-actualization - Esteem needs - Belonging and love - Safety - Physical needs
Conservation
22. Putting disabled students w/ normal students
Base of the skull; size of a pea
Double blind
Mainstreaming
Puberty
23. What controls breathing and heart rate?
Pituitary gland
Long labors or birth complications
Pons
Medicated delivery
24. What is the conception alternative where semen is deposited into the body via a thin tube?
Nature
Mode
Alternative - or artificial - insemination
Esteem needs
25. Used to show links between people - events - actions - behaviors - etc. while not determining the caus - rather is linked to statistics
Correlation Research
Automatic
Morphemes
Gonads
26. What is the method to find the amount that one variable changes in relation to another?
Stage 2
Irritability - social responsiveness - and activity level
Conception
Correlational research
27. Which receptor is used for color vision?
Independent variable
Egocentrism
Humanistic Theorists
Cones
28. Usually has a doctoral degree in psychology plus an internship; cannot prescribe medicine.
Recognition
Social learning theory
Clinical psychologist
Accommodation
29. What are the different types of caregivers for pregnancy?
Rods
Obstetrician-gynecologist - family practitioner - or midwife
Toxic shock syndrome
School-age Child
30. When does language development begin?
50%
Six months
Commissures
Prenatal development
31. What is: the process by which a society identifies its expectations?
Gestalt psychology
Socialization
The skull - dura mater membrane - arachnoid layer - and pia mater.
Sublimation
32. Is there currently a cure for Alzheimer's disease?
Dialectical perspective
No
Genetic Mutation
Stage 3
33. What are areas in a baby's skull where cartilage hasn't yet hardened into bone?
Fontanels
Personality
Left hand - left eye - and simple comprehension
Toxic shock syndrome
34. Defense mechanism: hiding the feelings and not acknowledging them
Old-old
Suppression
Punishment
Babbling
35. Dying w/o a will
Reciprocal determinism
Dizygotic twins
Intestate
Correlation Research
36. What is the chance of a baby having PKU?
99%
5
1 in 14 -000
Maslow
37. What is: an experienced practitioner who can attend pregnancies and deliveries?
Old Age
Midwife
Neonate
Norplant
38. A higher number of the correlation coefficient closer to the number one shows a:
Androgynous
Cooing
Strong correlation
Prenatal development
39. What is a common learning disability in reading?
Ethics
Dyslexia
Short attention span
Cerebrospinal fluid
40. Who created the first scientific psychology laboratory?
Dependent variable
1 & 2
Wilhelm Wundt
Cornea
41. A morpheme that can be a word on its own
Obstetrician-gynecologist
Skin appearance - 'age spots' - hair
Free morpheme
Rite of Passage
42. What purpose do fontanels have?
43. Believed each person had an idea of a 'perfect person' and tried to work towards being like that person as much as possible - believing that people needed to become 'fully functioning' individuals
Papillae
Carl Rogers
Rubella
Maslow
44. Level 2 of Kohlberg's Theory of Moral Development includes which stages
Celibacy
Harry Harlow
3 & 4
Median
45. True or False: Kohlberg believed that you go through each step of moral development one @ a time and could not skip them.
Long labors or birth complications
Closure
Cross-modal perception
True
46. What do doctors agree is the best way to feed babies?
6
Clinical psychologist
Breast-feeding
50%
47. What are the two directions of growth in the embryo?
Cerebrospinal fluid
Cephalocaudal and Proximodistal
Positive Correlation
Stage 2
48. According to both Kohlberg and Piaget - the most immature reason to do something is to:
Mendel
Adolescent Egocentrism
Avoid punishment
Toddler
49. What is: the fluid filled structure in the inner ear that looks like a snail?
Inner ear
Cochlea
Contextual
Divergent thinking
50. Who thought of the mind as a stream of consciousness--a flow of emotions - sensations and thoughts?
Adolescent
Hypothalamus
William James
Oral contraceptives