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DSST Lifespan Developmental Psychology

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1. Child's realization their sex will stay the same






2. What is the factor that always stays the same?






3. If you are A positive blood - what is that in terms of Rh factor?






4. What are the four characteristics of perception?






5. Teaches that when a certain action is performed - there are consequences--reinforces good behavior with extrinsic/intrinsic reinforcers






6. Who coined the Theory of Moral Development?






7. A type of research done inside of a lab - selected to monitor specific biological changes in individuals by using expensive and sophisticated machinery






8. What is the part in the back of the eye that includes receptors called rods and cones?






9. True or False: Kohlberg believed that you go through each step of moral development one @ a time and could not skip them.






10. What is the least developed part of a newborn (growth is not complete)?






11. What is: the fluid filled structure in the inner ear that looks like a snail?






12. What is: when the mother consumes alcohol while her babies are in the womb?






13. The process of unassociating the condition with the response






14. Removing something unpleasant from a situation - to make a behavior more likely






15. What do doctors agree is the best way to feed babies?






16. What is: the theory centered on behavior; see person as blank slate upon which impressions of experiences can be recorded.






17. What is the chance of a baby having PKU?






18. What are the four lobes of the brain?






19. Which lobe is related to body sensations?






20. Which lobe is related to voluntary muscles and intelligence?






21. What are the two different classifications of intelligence?






22. What percentage of children are affected by hyperactivity?






23. What is: the ability to group objects together on the basis of common features?






24. What is: a mix of gender identity - gender roles - and orientation; recognition of ourselves as sexual beings.






25. Read pages 22-25 for charts: Piaget's Stages of Development and Freud's Psychosexual Stages






26. When people of different ages are studied at one particular time






27. Who proposed fluid/crystallized intelligence?






28. Children that are raised on the Kibbutz are used to study the effects of what?






29. 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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30. What is: the study of substances which are harmful to prenatal development?






31. What is: an M.D. who provides comprehensive care for people of all ages?






32. What two other chemicals do the adrenal glands secrete?






33. What part of the central nervous system controls all necessary functions of the body?






34. If a test measures what is meant to measure it is considered what?






35. Rang the bell each time he fed the dog; eventually how early did the dogs start salivating?






36. What is: a state of mental balance - reconciling new experiences with new understanding






37. What is: psychological definition for having more equal personality characteristics between male&female?






38. When do children develop object permanence?






39. Gilligan believed that Kholberg's theory described the male progression which she called the what?






40. What is: the ability to associate something from one area of knowledge - and use that to determine or imagine what it is like in other aspects?






41. What is: a person's attraction to other people?






42. Who argued that classical conditioning explains some behaviors - but operant conditioning plays a much larger role?






43. Who introduced the scientific method?






44. The most direct measure of syntax in middle childhood is what?






45. In children babbling begins around age _____ - while in deaf infants babbling usually begins around several months later






46. A correlation coefficient of zero






47. What is: the difference made to one's mind by the process of assimilation?






48. A child that bounces back from a difficult situation






49. What is: hatred and fear of homosexuals?






50. If a mother catches rubella in first trimester - what is the chance that the fetus is affected?