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DSST Lifespan Developmental Psychology
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1. What is the part of the ear that includes the pinna and external auditory canal?
Toddler
Gender role stereotypes
Outer ear
Nature vs. nurture
2. What is: the difference made to one's mind by the process of assimilation?
Corpus callosum
90%
Accommodation
On chromosomes
3. What is: the gland that controls release of hormones from the gonads?
Pituitary gland
They can be coached into learning a type of test--do better or worse - etc.
Personality
Raymond Cattell
4. A set of cases of people randomly chosen from a large group to represent that large group
6-12
Sampling
Holophrase syntax
Opens and closes to let the correct amount of light in
5. What is the term for the death of a child under one year - for no apparent reason?
Full (46)
10-14 months
Mode
Sudden Infant Death Syndrome
6. How was the visual cliff study conducted?
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7. What is: attraction to both sexes?
Bisexual
Rite of Passage
Perception
Dizygotic twins
8. Who argued that classical conditioning explains some behaviors - but operant conditioning plays a much larger role?
Erik Erikson
Fetal death
Holophrase syntax
B.F. Skinner
9. When someone sees an incomplete form - they fill in the pieces and perceive it as it would be that way. What Gestalt principle is this an example of?
As soon as the bell was rung
Hour of love
Closure
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
10. What is: structures in the cerebral cortex related to memory and emotion?
Limbic system
2
Prenatal development
Vestibular sense
11. Which protective brain layer is the strongest and thickest?
6
Id - Ego - Super Ego
Dura mater
Operant conditioning
12. Those who are mentally retarded are least likely to also have WHAT condition?
Cones
Cerebral palsy
Kohlberg
Safety
13. When something from conditioning carries over to another related area; made baby Albert afraid of all furry animals - rather than just rats
Conception
Biological; Behavioral; Cognitive; Humanistic; Psychoanalytical; Structuralism; Functionalism; Nature vs. Nurture
Stimulus generalization
Gradually through shaping
14. What are the factors that influence psychosocial health?
Stage 1
Family situation - the world around you - lifespan - and maturity.
Nature vs. nurture
Rh positive
15. What syndrome is characterized by small stature - poor coordination - hyperactive - learning disabilities - mental retardation - or large head?
Midwife
Fetal Alcohol Syndrome
Resilient child
Reinforcer
16. What is a learning disability in math - where concepts are learned one day and forgotten the next?
Zygote
Middle-old
Rite of Passage
Dyscalcula
17. Extension of 'actions speak louder than words' in behavior; follow others' examples despite their words.
William James
As soon as the bell was rung
Social learning theory
Mean
18. People who are working that experience discrimination because of their age - whether too young or too old are victims of what?
Commissures
Ageism
Morality of Justice
Hypokinetic diseases
19. What does STDs stand for - including AIDS and herpes?
Autonomic Nervous System
Sexually transmitted diseases
Rite of Passage
Cognitive improvement
20. When is anoxia a problem in births?
Long labors or birth complications
Create and release chemicals into the blood
4-9
Fluid intelligence and crystal intelligence
21. What is the most popular method for giving birth?
Modeling
Six or seven months
Medicated delivery
Automatic
22. A child that is always in a hurry
Prenatal development
Social health
Gestures
Hurried-child
23. A number between +1 and -1 that measures the strength between two variables
Down syndrome
Drugs - diseases (like HIV - rubella) - and pollutants (mercury - radiation - etc)
Correlation coefficient
William James
24. Why is self-report data not as reliable as other research methods?
Gestalt psychology
Qualitative
Subjects may be dishonest w/ their answers
Displacement
25. What is the method to find the amount that one variable changes in relation to another?
Gestalt psychology
Correlational research
Six months
Family practitioner
26. Second step in Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs
In vitro fertilization
Sigmund Freud
9-15
Safety
27. What is: the theory focused on 'how' of behavior; minds are a continuous flow of information about experiences - and role is to study the mind/behavior as they adapt to the environment
Half (23)
Accommodation
Functionalism
Base of the skull; size of a pea
28. Does a somatic (body) cell have a full - or half - set of chromosomes?
Full (46)
Parasympathetic
Spiritual - emotional - mental - and social health
Stage
29. What kind of problem can it cause when a husband and wife have different blood types?
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30. Aside from learning disabilities - what physical problem do Kleinfelter people have?
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31. Who first coined self-efficacy?
Carl Rogers
Peer group
Bandura
The meanlinkk of utterance (how long their sentences are)
32. Biological theories of aging: like everything else in the world - the human body wears out
Wear-and-Tear Theory
Cesarean birth
Fluid intelligence
Avoid punishment
33. Gilligan believed that Kholberg's theory described the male progression which she called the what?
Morality of Justice
Authoritarian
Diaphragm
Not fully developed; but can distinguish color - track movement - and bright objects.
34. What is: the theory centered on studying how the mind is involved in knowing - learning - remembering - thinking; study how the mind relates to behavior
Half (23)
Assimilation
Cochlea
Cognitive
35. Which part of the ANS is the arousing part of the system?
Long labors or birth complications
Sympathetic nervous system
Punishment
Longitudinal Study
36. What are the three things to monitor - to measure temperament in infants?
Skin appearance - 'age spots' - hair
Irritability - social responsiveness - and activity level
Six months
The cloth monkey
37. When people are followed and studied over a long period of time and checked up on at certain points
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
9-15
Ego
Longitudinal Study
38. Why isn't an IQ test a good indicator for children over long periods of time?
They can be coached into learning a type of test--do better or worse - etc.
No
Conservation
10-14 months
39. What is: when the mother consumes alcohol while her babies are in the womb?
Fetal alcohol syndrome
RU-486
Epinephrine and norepinephrine
Displacement
40. If you are A positive blood - what is that in terms of Rh factor?
Self-actualization - Esteem needs - Belonging and love - Safety - Physical needs
Rh positive
Timbre
Gender
41. What are: drugs taken within three days to prevent pregnancy from instances such as no protection - or a broken condom?
Endocrine system
Emergency contraception
Developmental norm
Three
42. Which lobe is related to hearing?
Multiple caretakers
B.F. Skinner
Temporal lobe
Six months
43. How do you fix the problem of mother's cells attacking the baby's?
Injections
Mental health
Alternative - or artificial - insemination
Preoperational stage (ages 3-6)
44. Imitation of a past-observed behavior
Deferred imitation
No
Erik Erikson
Free morpheme
45. In the Harlow experiment: between the wire monkey+bottle - and cloth monkey+no bottle - which fake mother did the babies prefer?
The cloth monkey
Morality of Care
Nature
Autonomic Nervous System
46. Whatmakes a person able to see objects are they are - in 3 dimensions?
Gender role stereotypes
Depth perception
The brain/the cerebral cortex
Noise
47. Who taught women breathing procedures to get through childbirth - including panting?
Amniocentesis
Double blind
Ferdinand Lamaze
Abortion
48. What is: the ear's interpretation of a sound's frequency
Teratogens
3 & 4
Breast-feeding
Pitch
49. What is the medical term for birth of a dead baby?
Kubler-Ross's Stages of Dying
Longitudinal fissure
Stillbirth
Hypokinetic diseases
50. Children are most likely to achieve if parents:
Set high standards - assist along the way
Developmental norm
Neonate
90%