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DSST Lifespan Developmental Psychology
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. What types of drugs can hurt a developing fetus if taken by the mother?
Esteem needs
Positive Correlation
Retina
All drugs - including over the counter - aspirin - coffee
2. When a researcher observes and studies subjects w/o interacting or interfering w/ them
Echolalia
Autoerotic behavior
Naturalistic observation
Dialectical perspective
3. When can a person's short term memory become incapacitated?
Three percent
As they age
Limbic system
Gerontology
4. Observing someone's behavior and basing our own behavior on it
Modeling
Dependent variable
Social learning theory
Hypothalamus
5. Something used to make a behavior less likely to occur - can be positive or negative
Opens and closes to let the correct amount of light in
Laboratory observation
Crystallized intelligence
Punishment
6. What is the main difference between classical and operant conditioning?
Accommodation
Authoritative
Morality of Care
Classical conditioning works more to explain reflexive or unconscious reactions - Operant conditioning works to explain elective actions and reactions
7. Which stage of development is: Initiative vs. Guilt? (trying different roles)
Super Ego
Preschooler
Fetal tobacco syndrome
Preoperational stage (ages 3-6)
8. Putting disabled students w/ normal students
Obstetrician-gynecologist - family practitioner - or midwife
Critical period
Mainstreaming
Dialectical perspective
9. What is being able to reproduce knowledge from memory?
Irritability - social responsiveness - and activity level
Cerebral palsy
Recall
Biological; Behavioral; Cognitive; Humanistic; Psychoanalytical; Structuralism; Functionalism; Nature vs. Nurture
10. Which stage of development is: Ego Integrity vs. Despair? (what they have done with their life)
Attention Deficit Disorder and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
Raymond Cattell
Old Age
Nature
11. Theory that every function in the child's cultural development appears twice: first between people - then inside the child.
Adrenal glands
Social development or social cognition
Visual cliff
Spermicides
12. 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?
Explicit role instruction
Childhood depression
Closure
Babbling
13. According to both Kohlberg and Piaget - the most immature reason to do something is to:
Stillbirth
Bargaining
Avoid punishment
Gradually through shaping
14. What are the four areas of taste that taste-buds recognize?
Corpus callosum
Independent variable
Sweet - bitter - salty - sour
Rite of Passage
15. How is ADHD diagnosed?
Stage 2
Classification
Up to 6 months of observation by doctors
A will
16. Child's realization their sex will stay the same
They were not scientifically performed
Rationalization
Left hand - left eye - and simple comprehension
Gender conservation
17. Level 2 of Kohlberg's Theory of Moral Development includes which stages
Commissures
3 & 4
Gonads
Habituation
18. What is the most extreme outcome of a woman drinking during her pregnancy?
Self-esteem
Mode
Fetal death
Independent variable
19. Visible signs of aging include:
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20. The name most associated with operant conditioning is who?
Psychiatrist
B.F. Skinner
Elaboration
William James
21. Stage in which a person is concerned w/ how their action might affect society; the social contract orientation
Habituation
Stage 5
Reinforcer
Nature
22. What is: another form of consciousness involving very little effort; dreaming while awake or letting the mind wander?
Daydreaming
Natural prepared childbirth
Preconventional Morality
Morality of Care
23. Why did studies used by Piaget and Freud lead to wrong conclusions?
Visual cliff
They were not scientifically performed
Infertility
...
24. How do you fix the problem of mother's cells attacking the baby's?
Endocrine system
Francis Bacon--16th century
Short attention span
Injections
25. What is: growth from the head downward (head develops before rest of the body)?
Wilhelm Wundt
Assimilation
Maslow
Cephalocaudal
26. What is: long lasting contraceptive where six capsules are injected in a woman's arm?
Norplant
Depo-Provera
Gonads
Alzheimer's Disease
27. When people are followed and studied over a long period of time and checked up on at certain points
Longitudinal Study
Egocentric behavior
Carl Rogers
Nurture
28. What is: when a child can't be conceived via the usual method?
Classical conditioning
10-14 months
Old Age
Infertility
29. Defense mechanism: feelings are redirected to someone else
Three
Displacement
On chromosomes
Stage 5
30. What is the perception characteristic that: if you have heard a movie is scary - you might be more inclined to get scared?
Automatic - selective - contextual - and creative
Hypothalamus
Reciprocal determinism
Contextual
31. What is the term for fraternal twins?
The Premack Principle
Physical needs
Carl Rogers
Dizygotic twins
32. Age at which most children will identify specific 'best-friends'
10
12+
School-age Child
Pons
33. Which stage of development is: Identity vs. Role Confusion? (who am I)
Emergency contraception
The penis doesn't grow and breasts may develop.
Adolescent
Rods
34. What is the main relay station for incoming sensory signals to the cerebral cortex - and outgoing motor signals from it?
Five
Stage 1
Divergent thinkers
Thalamus
35. What is: a state of mental balance - reconciling new experiences with new understanding
Osteoporosis
5 & 6
Equilibrium
Hollow phrases
36. What is: the understanding of more advanced classification; that some sets are also sub-sets of a larger class?
Up to 6 months of observation by doctors
Class inclusion
Mendel
Perception
37. What is: dynamic blend of our experiences - heredity - environment - etc. which determines how we react to problems/issues?
4
Personality
Self-actualization - Esteem needs - Belonging and love - Safety - Physical needs
Three percent
38. Which protective brain layer is the strongest and thickest?
Fetal tobacco syndrome
Dura mater
Social development or social cognition
As they age
39. What is the part of the ear that includes the eardrum - anvil - and stirrup?
Esteem needs
Sound waves
A will
Middle ear
40. What is: the theory based on biology; belief that behavior and personality are linked to genetics
Biological
Slowed growth - body/face malfunctions - nervous system disorders - mental retardation.
Preoperational stage (ages 3-6)
Correlation Research
41. What is the factor that always stays the same?
Constant
3-7
Autonomic Nervous System
Anger (Emotion)
42. What is: the way the brain organizes and gives meaning to information provided by the senses?
Sound waves
Perception
The brain stem
5
43. The most direct measure of syntax in middle childhood is what?
Irritability - social responsiveness - and activity level
The meanlinkk of utterance (how long their sentences are)
Old-old
Fetal tobacco syndrome
44. Why is autism rare in children for the first 2 1/2 years?
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45. What is: a permanent facility control done through surgical procedures?
Socialization
All drugs - including over the counter - aspirin - coffee
Sterilization
Fluid intelligence and crystal intelligence
46. Who believed that children's thinking doesn't develop smoothly - but instead certain points where it 'takes off' and transitions into new areas?
Short attention span
Nature
Jean Piaget
Reciprocal determinism
47. What is: an experienced practitioner who can attend pregnancies and deliveries?
Midwife
The more accurate the result
90%
Breast-feeding
48. What is the middle number in a set of data called?
It measures a child against their peers - in that moment
Rubella
Spiritual health
Median
49. Self-esteem begins forming in:
Intrinsic reinforcer
Mostly developed by the time of birth
Visual cliff
Middle childhood
50. How was the visual cliff study conducted?
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