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DSST Lifespan Developmental Psychology
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1. When a participant fills out a survey themselves about themselves
Create and release chemicals into the blood
Rationalization
4-9
Self-report data
2. 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
Self-actualization
Stage 3
Modeling
Operant conditioning
3. Once the disease strikes - an individual w/ Alzheimer's disease usually has their life expectancy is:
Authoritarian
Babbling
Cut in half
Lens
4. Which protective brain layer is mostly blood vessels?
Self-esteem
A will
Independent variable
Pia mater
5. Which part of the ANS is the arousing part of the system?
Convergent thinking
Sympathetic nervous system
Alfred Binet
Psychological Tests
6. In the Harlow experiment: between the wire monkey+bottle - and cloth monkey+no bottle - which fake mother did the babies prefer?
In vitro fertilization
Six months
The cloth monkey
Cerebral cortex
7. Third step in Maslow's Hierarchy of needs in which you may want to meet needs of belongings and love through relationships
Fetal death
On chromosomes
Belonging and love
Cognitive theorist
8. What syndrome is characterized by small stature - poor coordination - hyperactive - learning disabilities - mental retardation - or large head?
Fetal Alcohol Syndrome
Bound morpheme
Down syndrome
Multiple caretakers
9. What is: your thoughts - beliefs - attitudes - and values
Authoritative
Spiritual health
Cognitive
Mental health
10. A communication style in which single words are used to communicate - typical of toddlers learning to speak - for example 'give' or 'mama'. The meaning is still understood even though complete sentences are not used
Telegraphic speech
Hospice
Holophrase syntax
Frontal lobe
11. What is: the debate between whether a child is born a bad seed--with whatever disposition/tastes/personality they were meant to have; or that a child is born good - with their upbringing affecting their later personality and actions.
3 & 4
Bound morpheme
Cut in half
Nature vs. nurture
12. What is the term for: a child's understanding that once you leave the room - you are not gone forever - etc.?
Object permanence
Ivan Pavlov
1 & 2
5 & 6
13. A medical doctor with a degree who specializes in psychotherapy - who can prescribe drugs
Laboratory observation
Psychiatrist
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
The Montessori Method
14. Children are most likely to achieve if parents:
Monocular cues
Set high standards - assist along the way
Morphemes
The Montessori Method
15. What is: your interactions with others in social situations
Organ of corti
Middle ear
Spiritual - emotional - mental - and social health
Social health
16. What is: the gland that controls release of hormones from the gonads?
Subjects may be dishonest w/ their answers
Stimulus generalization
Family practitioner
Pituitary gland
17. Why isn't an IQ test a good indicator for children over long periods of time?
Osteoporosis
Alternative - or artificial - insemination
They can be coached into learning a type of test--do better or worse - etc.
Selective
18. When can a person's short term memory become incapacitated?
Dialectical perspective
Family situation - the world around you - lifespan - and maturity.
Homophobia
As they age
19. What is: a mix of gender identity - gender roles - and orientation; recognition of ourselves as sexual beings.
Mental health
Sexual identity
10-14 months
The posterior (back) fontanel: within two months of birth. The anterior (front) fontanel: by the child's 2nd birthday.
20. Types of child play in chronological order:
Quantitative
True
Cerebral palsy
Unoccupied behavior - onlooker - solitary independent (plays alone) - parallel play (plays around but not w/ others) - associative - cooperative play
21. Why is autism rare in children for the first 2 1/2 years?
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22. The larger the sample:
Miscarriages or stillbirths
Median
Sympathetic nervous system
The more accurate the result
23. One's wishes for the distribution of one's property and possessions after death
Teratogens
Habituation
Independent variable
A will
24. What is: the bumps on top of the tongue that contain taste buds?
Rationalization
Acceptance
Celibacy
Papillae
25. Which thought process is a creative process?
Divergent thinking
Random assignment
Negative reinforcer
Biological
26. What is the variable that the experimenter controls?
Outer ear
Subject
3
Independent variable
27. What regulates internal temperature - eating - sleeping - drinking - emotions - and sexual activity?
Hypothalamus
10-14 months
Sympathetic nervous system
Down syndrome
28. Experiment when none of the doctors - researchers - and participants know who is getting the real drug
Survey
Punishment
Double blind
Fetal alcohol syndrome
29. A lower number of the correlation coefficient - closer to the number zero shows a:
Weak correlation
Raymond Cattell
Set high standards - assist along the way
Pituitary gland
30. Parenting styles: 'because I say so'--more prevalent in lower-class families
Long labors or birth complications
Authoritarian
Id
Syphillis and rubella
31. What is: structures in the cerebral cortex related to memory and emotion?
Contextual
Psychological Tests
Limbic system
Informed consent
32. 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?
Operant conditioning
Convergent thinking
Contextual
Preparatory Depression
33. What are: chemicals designed to kill sperm?
Wear-and-Tear Theory
Quantitative
Chomsky
Spermicides
34. Where are genes carried?
Family therapy
Old Age
Automatic - selective - contextual - and creative
On chromosomes
35. What is: located in the limbic system - with primary function to store memories?
Hippocampus
Kibbutz
Cut in half
Accommodation
36. Fourth step in Maslow's Hierarchy of needs in which you begin to think about you self-esteem and how you feel as a person
Clinical psychologist
Morality of Care
Olfactory epithelium
Esteem needs
37. What is: sheath of thin latex designed to catch sperm upon ejaculation?
Condom
Correlational research
Personality
Content validity
38. Is there currently a cure for Alzheimer's disease?
Hippocampus
Contraception
Papillae
No
39. Who believed that the unconscious motivates our actions - through the id - ego - and superego?
Thalamus
Freud
Sudden Infant Death Syndrome
Cognitive improvement
40. We smell when airborne molecules of an odor reach tiny receptor cells in the top of the nasal cavity; what is the name of this receptor area?
Positive Correlation
Olfactory epithelium
True
More Knowledgeable Other (MKO)
41. What are the factors that influence psychosocial health?
Family situation - the world around you - lifespan - and maturity.
Convergent thinking
Dependent variable
Authoritarian
42. What is the perception characteristic that: you don't have to think about it for it to happen?
Spiritual - emotional - mental - and social health
Automatic
Unoccupied behavior - onlooker - solitary independent (plays alone) - parallel play (plays around but not w/ others) - associative - cooperative play
Family situation - the world around you - lifespan - and maturity.
43. What is: generalizations about each gender - such as that men are aggressive and logical - and women are nurturing and emotional
The cerebrum
Slowed growth - body/face malfunctions - nervous system disorders - mental retardation.
Gender role stereotypes
Zone of Proximal Development
44. What is the middle number in a set of data called?
Placebo effect
Median
Occipital - temporal - frontal - and parietal.
Hour of love
45. 1 + 5 + 6. What is the mean?
Valid
4
Zone of Proximal Development
Placebo effect
46. What is: irrelevant stimuli that compete for our attention (like traffic)
Left hand - left eye - and simple comprehension
Noise
1 & 2
Echolalia
47. What is when the baby is born in a pool or bath with dim lights?
Wilhelm Wundt
Corpus callosum
Gentle birth
Cerebral palsy
48. Defense mechanism in which complete rejection of the feeling or situation
Amniocentesis
Through actions - doing what you believe is correct
Echolalia
Denial
49. A test that gives information about a participant including standardized tests such as aptitude - interest - and personality tests
The cloth monkey
Psychological Tests
Kubler-Ross's Stages of Dying
Outer ear
50. What is the name for the bundles of axons - used to communicate between the two halves of brain?
Amplitude
Wear-and-Tear Theory
Occipital - temporal - frontal - and parietal.
Commissures