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DSST Lifespan Developmental Psychology
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1. Which thought process is: many ideas are brainstormed to explore many possible solutions; used in creative settings?
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
Personality
Cerebral cortex
Divergent thinking
2. First development of language; pre-speech
Cross Sectional Study
Cochlea
Ivan Pavlov
Cooing
3. What is: focusing attention on a small amount of information?
Family therapy
Six months
Selective attention
Freud
4. What gland releases hormones that regulate hormone secretions of other glands?
Pituitary gland
Pons
Cerebrum
Dizygotic twins
5. What is: the difference made to one's mind by the process of assimilation?
Organ of corti
Accommodation
Bell would ring - then feed the dogs - Dogs would salivate when given food - Over time dogs began to salivate simply at ring of bell
Depo-Provera
6. Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs consists of which steps?
Self-actualization - Esteem needs - Belonging and love - Safety - Physical needs
Dependent variable
Socialization
Francis Bacon--16th century
7. What are the three different areas of the Autonomic Nervous System?
Independent variable
Sympathetic - parasympathetic - and enteric
Extinction
Preconventional Morality
8. What is: long lasting contraceptive where six capsules are injected in a woman's arm?
4-9
Norplant
Self-efficacy
Selective attention
9. What is: the type of thought related to numerical and intellectual puzzles--with both quick & creative responses?
3-7
Skin appearance - 'age spots' - hair
Convergent thinking
Fluid intelligence
10. What is the approach that assumes people organize their perceptions by patterns?
Gestalt psychology
Virginia Apgar - or Apgar Rating
Puberty
Opens and closes to let the correct amount of light in
11. What is: irrelevant stimuli that compete for our attention (like traffic)
Create and release chemicals into the blood
Noise
William James
Young-old
12. What are: the harmful substances to a developing fetus?
6
Independent variable
Emergency contraception
Teratogens
13. What is the sense that gives information about balance and body movement? (if your body is moving - tilting - etc.)
Vestibular sense
Modeling
The meanlinkk of utterance (how long their sentences are)
Infertility
14. A term used in research used to describe something measurable usually expressed as a number
Young-old
Safety
Quantitative
Sexually transmitted diseases
15. What is: your feelings and reactions
Neonate
Super Ego
Emotional health
The posterior (back) fontanel: within two months of birth. The anterior (front) fontanel: by the child's 2nd birthday.
16. What is the white part of the eye that protects and manages the shape of the eye?
Fetal death
Cut in half
Selera
The right hand - right eye - and speech
17. A higher number of the correlation coefficient closer to the number one shows a:
Unoccupied behavior - onlooker - solitary independent (plays alone) - parallel play (plays around but not w/ others) - associative - cooperative play
Egocentric behavior
Weak correlation
Strong correlation
18. What are: vibrations in the air that we receive through the ear to be processed?
Wilhelm Wundt
Sound waves
Stage 1
Egocentric behavior
19. A system which uses operant conditioning to make less probable actions more likely to occur by using more probable actions as reinforcers
Gestures
The Premack Principle
Stage 6
Alternative - or artificial - insemination
20. A baby repeating what you just said
90%
Echolalia
3-7
Conceive at younger ages
21. What is the chance of having a boy or girl - according to Mendel's experiments in genetics?
Resilient child
50%
Cognitive improvement
Rh positive
22. Categories of old age: 85+
Old-old
Physical needs
Cut in half
Visual cliff
23. Second stage in the Kubler-Ross's Stages of Dying: 'This is unfair. Why me?'
Anger (Emotion)
Dyscalcula
Middle childhood
Selective
24. What are the four components of psychosocial health?
Operant conditioning
Raymond Cattell
Spiritual - emotional - mental - and social health
Excitement - plateau - orgasm - and resolution phases
25. Something pleasant used to make a behavior more likely
Median
Half (23)
Positive reinforcer
5
26. Defense mechanism: transferring your thoughts and feelings onto others
Emotional neglect
Automatic
Projection
Cephalocaudal
27. Which stage of development is: Identity vs. Role Confusion? (who am I)
Naturalistic observation
Adolescent
The skull - dura mater membrane - arachnoid layer - and pia mater.
Hollow phrases
28. What is: the realization that objects stay the same even when they are made to look different?
Conservation
Humanistic Theorists
Cooing
Accommodation
29. What do children in early language development not understand?
Natural observation
Figurative language
Social learning theory
The Montessori Method
30. What does the right half of the brain control?
Cornea and lens
Explicit role instruction
Sublimation
Left hand - left eye - and simple comprehension
31. What is: a permanent facility control done through surgical procedures?
Heterosexual
Psychoanalytical
Denial
Sterilization
32. What are the factors that influence psychosocial health?
Vestibular sense
5 & 6
Injections
Family situation - the world around you - lifespan - and maturity.
33. What is a fertilized ovum or egg?
Olfactory sense
Zygote
Mental health
Avoid punishment
34. What is: growth from the head downward (head develops before rest of the body)?
Bell would ring - then feed the dogs - Dogs would salivate when given food - Over time dogs began to salivate simply at ring of bell
No
3 & 4
Cephalocaudal
35. A morpheme that must be w/ a word
Autism
3
B.F. Skinner
Bound morpheme
36. In a case study - a single individual called a _____ is intensely studied
Mainstreaming
Fetal tobacco syndrome
Gender roles
Subject
37. What is: the way the brain organizes and gives meaning to information provided by the senses?
Papillae
Peer group
Perception
Strong correlation
38. What is the conception alternative where semen is deposited into the body via a thin tube?
Psychiatrist
Alternative - or artificial - insemination
Recall
Divergent thinkers
39. Visible signs of aging include:
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40. Defense mechanism in which complete rejection of the feeling or situation
Psychoanalytic theory
Denial
Gestalt psychology
Qualitative
41. A reinforcer that comes from within the individual--something emotional.
Physical needs
Cochlea
Cut in half
Intrinsic reinforcer
42. What do doctors agree is the best way to feed babies?
A will
Equilibrium
Full (46)
Breast-feeding
43. Which thought process is: a set of steps is followed to come to a correct answer; used in academic (math/science) settings?
They can be coached into learning a type of test--do better or worse - etc.
Parietal lobe
Habituation
Convergent thinking
44. What is: the period of sexual maturation?
Puberty
23 pairs
Cerebral cortex
Psychoanalytical
45. What are the two parts responsible for bending light and focusing it in the back of the eye?
Cornea and lens
Laboratory observation
None!!
Loudness
46. How much are the eyes developed in newborns?
Longitudinal fissure
Cochlea
Not fully developed; but can distinguish color - track movement - and bright objects.
Babbling
47. Which lobe is related to body sensations?
Parietal lobe
Intestate
Because at birth cells aren't well connected (lacking in myelin - or nerve insulation)
Fetal tobacco syndrome
48. Who created functionalism?
Object permanence
Harry Harlow
Virginia Apgar - or Apgar Rating
William James
49. What syndrome happens when a woman smokes while pregnant?
Fetal tobacco syndrome
Abstinence
Family therapy
Bargaining
50. The final stage of Maslow's Hierarchy of needs. A stage you may never actually meet.
Self-actualization
Middle ear
Absolute threshold
Preschooler