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DSST Lifespan Developmental Psychology
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Child's realization their sex will stay the same
Amniocentesis
Gender conservation
Adolescent
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
2. Defense mechanism in which complete rejection of the feeling or situation
Wear-and-Tear Theory
Cerebral cortex
Wilhelm Wundt
Denial
3. What are: the principles and standards of behavior - including morals; right/wrong and having one's actions correlate with their beliefs
Subjects may be dishonest w/ their answers
Frequency
Visual cliff
Ethics
4. Which stage of development is: Ego Integrity vs. Despair? (what they have done with their life)
Epinephrine and norepinephrine
Old Age
Sound waves
Norplant
5. What two diseases - when caught early in the pregnancy - are most dangerous to the fetus?
90%
Creative
Syphillis and rubella
Social development or social cognition
6. Piaget believed that the individual actively constructs knowledge about the world--what is the term for this?
Cognitive theorist
All drugs - including over the counter - aspirin - coffee
Hypokinetic diseases
Echolalia
7. What sends commands to all other parts of the body?
Classical conditioning
Equilibrium
Middle ear
The brain stem
8. What are: chemicals designed to kill sperm?
Anger (Emotion)
Multiple caretakers
Hypothalamus
Spermicides
9. What is the term for identical twins?
Monozygotic twins
Commissures
Middle ear
Gerontology
10. How was the visual cliff study conducted?
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11. 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
The brain stem
Carl Rogers
Divergent thinkers
Morality of Care
12. What is: the theory to investigate the elements or 'structures' of the mind; classify structures and focus on conscious thought
Genetic Mutation
Attention Deficit Disorder and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
Prenatal development
Structuralism
13. How is extinction best achieved?
Middle-age Adult
Gradually through shaping
Abstinence
Olfactory sense
14. What is the most extreme outcome of a woman drinking during her pregnancy?
Extinction
Esteem needs
Cross Sectional Study
Fetal death
15. What is the study done to show that infants have depth perception?
Visual cliff
Id
Pavlov; classical conditioning
The cerebrum
16. Age at with children start feeling a fear of the dark - which can be strong and appear suddenly
Mentally retarded
Divergent thinking
Stage 5
6
17. Self-esteem begins forming in:
Carl Rogers
Cerebral cortex
Middle childhood
Regression
18. All other variables w/in an experiment that researchers do not have control over
Humanistic Theorists
Dependent variable
Diaphragm
Cornea
19. If a mother catches rubella in first trimester - what is the chance that the fetus is affected?
90%
Noise
Anger (Emotion)
Convergent thinking
20. What is the transparent part in the front of the eye?
Infant
Lens
Genes
Nurture
21. Who developed the theory of social development?
Esteem needs
Proximodistal
Medicated delivery
Vygotsky
22. What is the middle number in a set of data called?
Median
Breast-feeding
Cesarean birth
Syphillis and rubella
23. A disorder where the bones are weakened and become porous - like a sponge
Osteoporosis
Binocular cues
All drugs - including over the counter - aspirin - coffee
Bell would ring - then feed the dogs - Dogs would salivate when given food - Over time dogs began to salivate simply at ring of bell
24. Third development of language
Equilibrium
Hollow phrases
Regression
Kleinfelter Syndrome; male
25. What are the three things to monitor - to measure temperament in infants?
Irritability - social responsiveness - and activity level
Best friend
Occipital - temporal - frontal - and parietal.
Cones
26. What is: the realization that objects stay the same even when they are made to look different?
Conservation
Cerebral anoxia
Norplant
Stillbirth
27. What is: a child (especially preschool age) doesn't take into consideration other people's needs--their perceptions are limited to their own point of view
Half (23)
Egocentric behavior
Stage 3
Classification
28. 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)
Olfactory epithelium
Syphillis and rubella
Operation
Accommodation
29. Removing something unpleasant from a situation - to make a behavior more likely
Convergent thinking
Negative reinforcer
Zygote
4-9
30. Who founded the Hierarchy of Needs theory?
Alternative - or artificial - insemination
Egocentric behavior
Personality
Maslow
31. Who thought of the mind as a stream of consciousness--a flow of emotions - sensations and thoughts?
William James
Chomsky
Recognition
Social learning theory
32. What is the ability to identify correctly something encountered before?
Cephalocaudal
Psychometrics
Recognition
Displacement
33. One's wishes for the distribution of one's property and possessions after death
Sympathetic nervous system
True
Mendel
A will
34. What is: the moment an ovum/egg is fertilized by sperm?
Diaphragm
Conception
Maslow
Middle childhood
35. How many different theories of language development are there?
Socialization
Three
Convergent thinking
Anger (Emotion)
36. Stereotypes in genders; boys play with trucks and girls wear makeup - etc.
Content validity
Explicit role instruction
Cesarean birth
Operant conditioning
37. What is the variable that the experimenter controls?
Fit in
Dizygotic twins
Independent variable
Parietal lobe
38. What is the method of surgical delivery?
Bias
Cesarean birth
Constant
Selective
39. Who introduced the scientific method?
Functionalism
Long labors or birth complications
Francis Bacon--16th century
Base of the skull; size of a pea
40. What is: the theory that all people are inherently good and motivated to achieve their full potential
Emotional neglect
Norplant
Humanistic
Bell would ring - then feed the dogs - Dogs would salivate when given food - Over time dogs began to salivate simply at ring of bell
41. 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.
Celibacy
Kleinfelter Syndrome; male
None!!
Invincibility fable
42. The study of the aging process
Punishment
Monocular cues
Ageism
Gerontology
43. Stages of friendship: Momentary playmates
All drugs - including over the counter - aspirin - coffee
Conservation
Super Ego
3-7
44. What is: growth from the head downward (head develops before rest of the body)?
The brain
Conservation
Cephalocaudal
Three
45. Which protective brain layer is mostly blood vessels?
Emergency contraception
Pia mater
Figurative language
Visual cliff
46. Who was the psychoanalyst who documented stages of emotional growth in regards to babies?
Erik Erikson
Conservation
William James
Ferdinand Lamaze
47. What is: the belief that you are the center of the universe and everything revolves around you - and the inability to see the world as someone else does and adapt to it.
Egocentrism
Depo-Provera
Women - men
Dialectical perspective
48. Rogers and Maslow are both:
Because at birth cells aren't well connected (lacking in myelin - or nerve insulation)
Hurried-child
Humanistic Theorists
Response extinction
49. What is the characteristic that: you may be more interested in a person - rather than what she is saying?
Visual cliff
Informed consent
Selective
Pitch
50. When people of different ages are studied at one particular time
Ivan Pavlov
Cross Sectional Study
Stage 4
Hollow phrases