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DSST Lifespan Developmental Psychology
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1. A person who uses ______ has a stated position - but also acknowledges that it may change over time.
Operation
Cognitive improvement
Gender roles
Dialectical perspective
2. Usually has a doctoral degree in psychology plus an internship; cannot prescribe medicine.
50%
Long labors or birth complications
Quantitative
Clinical psychologist
3. Which protective brain layer is mostly blood vessels?
Pia mater
Sound waves
The penis doesn't grow and breasts may develop.
Informed consent
4. What is the name for the 'crack' in the middle of the brain halves?
Acceptance
Accommodation
Binocular cues
Longitudinal fissure
5. What are the three parts of memory?
Virginia Apgar - or Apgar Rating
Bandura
Encoding the information - represnting the information - and retrieving information from memory.
Classical conditioning
6. Children learn and form their conscience and thoughts of what is acceptable behavior from what?
Bias
Cerebral anoxia
Watching their parents
Preschooler
7. Stage in which you do what is right in order to gain status or approval from other people or society; 'good boy-good girl' orientation
Stage 3
Assimilation
Valid
They were not scientifically performed
8. What 4 main problems do fetal alcohol syndrome cause?
Toddler
Slowed growth - body/face malfunctions - nervous system disorders - mental retardation.
Around age two
Regression
9. When does language development begin?
Toxic shock syndrome
Subject
Biological; Behavioral; Cognitive; Humanistic; Psychoanalytical; Structuralism; Functionalism; Nature vs. Nurture
Six months
10. What is the most extreme outcome of a woman drinking during her pregnancy?
Divergent thinking
Stage 5
Fetal death
Displacement
11. What is the transparent part in the front of the eye?
Recall
Thalamus
Dependent variable
Lens
12. What are: general term for the reproductive organs in a male or female?
Amplitude
Gonads
Sigmund Freud
Operant conditioning
13. What is: the theory centered on studying how the mind is involved in knowing - learning - remembering - thinking; study how the mind relates to behavior
Three percent
Cognitive
Social aspect of language
Limbic system
14. Theory that every function in the child's cultural development appears twice: first between people - then inside the child.
John Bowlby's Attachment Theory
Social development or social cognition
Operation
Obstetrician-gynecologist
15. Parenting styles: 'because I say so'--more prevalent in lower-class families
Anger (Emotion)
Irritability - social responsiveness - and activity level
Authoritarian
Proximodistal
16. Contains the psychic content related to the primitive instincts of the body - notably sex and aggression - functioning entirely according to the pleasure-pain principle - seeking either immediate fulfillment or settling for a compromise fulfillment
Informed consent
The posterior (back) fontanel: within two months of birth. The anterior (front) fontanel: by the child's 2nd birthday.
Olfactory sense
Id
17. What is: the moment an ovum/egg is fertilized by sperm?
Conception
Laboratory observation
Emotional health
Ivan Pavlov
18. Level 2 of Kohlberg's Theory of Moral Development includes which stages
They can be coached into learning a type of test--do better or worse - etc.
3 & 4
Mental health
Preconventional - conventional - postconventional
19. Where a group of people live together and the children of all the people are raised by one or two people
The brain
They were not scientifically performed
Kibbutz
Genes
20. Extension of 'actions speak louder than words' in behavior; follow others' examples despite their words.
Operant conditioning
Biological
Classical conditioning
Social learning theory
21. 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
Mental health
Valid
Stage 1
Functionalism
22. Aside from learning disabilities - what physical problem do Kleinfelter people have?
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23. What is the most dangerous trimester for the fetus (in regard to drug/alcohol use)?
First trimester
Visual cliff
Content validity
Pons
24. What is the least developed part of a newborn (growth is not complete)?
The brain/the cerebral cortex
Developmental norm
Genes
Double blind
25. What are the five areas of Apgar Rating - with scores of 0-2 in each?
Gender role stereotypes
Abortion
Cross Sectional Study
Appearance - pulse - grimace (reflex) - activity - and respiration
26. What is the name of the scientist known as the father of genetics and inheritance?
Assimilation
Mendel
Stage 5
Kohlberg
27. Removing something unpleasant from a situation - to make a behavior more likely
Negative reinforcer
Pituitary gland
Maslow
Alzheimer's Disease
28. Also called learning theory - based on the principle of observing and correcting behavior
Babbling
Mentally retarded
The cerebrum
Behaviorism
29. After how many cigarettes will the fetus definitely have problems--with a 50% greater risk of childhood cancer?
Negative reinforcer
Cerebellum
Contraception
Five
30. What is the ring of muscles that makes up the colored part of the eye?
Iris
Morality of Care
Ivan Pavlov
Zone of Proximal Development
31. What is: your feelings and reactions
Developmental norm
Emotional health
Gender identity
Homophobia
32. What is the chance of having a boy or girl - according to Mendel's experiments in genetics?
Free morpheme
50%
Harry Harlow
Sterilization
33. What is: when a child can't be conceived via the usual method?
Sublimation
Outer ear
Infertility
Subjects may be dishonest w/ their answers
34. What is: sheath of thin latex designed to catch sperm upon ejaculation?
Egocentric behavior
Oral contraceptives
Divergent thinking
Condom
35. How much are the eyes developed in newborns?
Stage 2
Not fully developed; but can distinguish color - track movement - and bright objects.
Depth perception
Kibbutz
36. Babies are rewarded with food/attention with they say 'mama' etc - so they continue to say those words and learn new ones; what idea does this theory follow?
Lewis Terman
Humanistic Theorists
Operant conditioning
Fontanels
37. What is the name of the largest commissure?
Occipital lobe
Cerebral cortex
Corpus callosum
Fetal Alcohol Syndrome
38. How is extinction best achieved?
Midwife
Gradually through shaping
Creative
Closure
39. What is being able to reproduce knowledge from memory?
Medicated delivery
Operant conditioning
Cephalocaudal
Recall
40. What is: generalizations about each gender - such as that men are aggressive and logical - and women are nurturing and emotional
Gender role stereotypes
3
Functionalism
Natural observation
41. What is the clear membrane in front of the eye that protects it?
No
Cornea
Bandura
Cognitive improvement
42. What most-extreme fate does syphillis often cause in infants?
Kleinfelter Syndrome; male
Hour of love
Miscarriages or stillbirths
Jean Piaget
43. Defense mechanism: transferring your thoughts and feelings onto others
Placebo effect
Monozygotic twins
Projection
Virginia Apgar - or Apgar Rating
44. When do the two fontanels harden?
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45. What is: attraction to both sexes?
Bisexual
Create and release chemicals into the blood
William James
Epinephrine and norepinephrine
46. The ethical component of the personality and provides the moral standards by which the ego operates
Operant conditioning
Super Ego
The posterior (back) fontanel: within two months of birth. The anterior (front) fontanel: by the child's 2nd birthday.
Harry Harlow
47. 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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48. What is a disease also called German measles?
Belonging and love
Dyslexia
Temporal lobe
Rubella
49. Self-aware - recognized - defined
Self-concept
Preschooler
Gradually through shaping
Retina
50. What do physicians recommend to prevent SIDS?
Random assignment
Recognition
Put babies on their backs to sleep - and not have anything extra (toys - pillows etc) in the bed or crib.
Anger (Emotion)