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DSST Lifespan Developmental Psychology
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. What is the chance of a baby having PKU?
1 in 14 -000
Parallel play
Equilibrium
Old-old
2. What is the term for oxygen deficiency to the brain?
Laboratory observation
Jean Piaget
Stage 5
Cerebral anoxia
3. What are: general term for the reproductive organs in a male or female?
Convergent thinking
Extrinsic reinforcer
Gonads
2
4. How does the pupil work?
Opens and closes to let the correct amount of light in
Reciprocal determinism
On chromosomes
Structuralism
5. A system which uses operant conditioning to make less probable actions more likely to occur by using more probable actions as reinforcers
Toxic shock syndrome
Self-efficacy
The Premack Principle
Clinical psychologist
6. What is the characteristic that: you fill in areas that we do not have complete information about?
Unoccupied behavior - onlooker - solitary independent (plays alone) - parallel play (plays around but not w/ others) - associative - cooperative play
Creative
Cerebral palsy
Spiritual health
7. What is another term for the system of hearing?
Hour of love
Auditory System
Semantics
Autism
8. Defense mechanism: hiding the feelings and not acknowledging them
Suppression
Depo-Provera
Esteem needs
Contraception
9. What do physicians recommend to prevent SIDS?
10-14 months
Suppression
Put babies on their backs to sleep - and not have anything extra (toys - pillows etc) in the bed or crib.
Best friend
10. When do children develop object permanence?
Around age two
Emergency contraception
Subjects may be dishonest w/ their answers
Kohlberg
11. Which stage of development is: Industry vs. Inferiority? (working with others)
Pons
School-age Child
90%
Puberty
12. What is a sometimes-fatal disease occuring from the excessive use of tampons - or leaving a diaphragm in - for longer than prescribed time?
Toxic shock syndrome
Cross-modal perception
Cerebellum
Medicated delivery
13. What is: attraction to the opposite sex?
Gestalt psychology
Fetal death
Heterosexual
Condom
14. Defense mechanism: feelings are redirected to someone else
Behavioral
5 & 6
Displacement
Endocrine system
15. What glands affect the mood - energy level - and stress?
Independent variable
Habituation
Adrenal glands
Spiritual health
16. What is: the bumps on top of the tongue that contain taste buds?
Papillae
Sweet - bitter - salty - sour
Brain and spinal cord
5
17. Stages of friendship: two way - fair weathered
6-12
Schema
IUD
10-14 months
18. What is: a person's attraction to other people?
Sexual orientation
Fetal tobacco syndrome
Classical conditioning
Selective attention
19. When something from conditioning carries over to another related area; made baby Albert afraid of all furry animals - rather than just rats
Cross-modal perception
Best friend
Stimulus generalization
Opens and closes to let the correct amount of light in
20. What is: attraction to the same sex?
Classical conditioning
Occipital lobe
Homosexual
Experimental group and control group
21. People who are working that experience discrimination because of their age - whether too young or too old are victims of what?
Ageism
Babbling
Lewis Terman
Stage 4
22. What is: the theory based on biology; belief that behavior and personality are linked to genetics
Denial
Gerontology
Chomsky
Biological
23. Stage in which you see the right action as what satisfies your personal needs; a person becomes aware of two different viewpoints
Not fully developed; but can distinguish color - track movement - and bright objects.
Stage 2
Parallel play
Attention Deficit Disorder and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
24. The process of unassociating the condition with the response
...
Creative
Divergent thinking
Extinction
25. Age at which children begin to share their toys and interact w/ one another - associative play
3
Divergent thinking
Hollow phrases
6
26. In a child - can be expressed as 'nobody likes me'
Psychological Tests
Up to 6 months of observation by doctors
A census
Childhood depression
27. Theory that every function in the child's cultural development appears twice: first between people - then inside the child.
Social development or social cognition
Longitudinal Study
Independent variable
Daydreaming
28. What is: the representation in the mind of a set of perceptions - ideas - and actions - which go together
Schema
9-15
Alzheimer's Disease
Alfred Binet
29. What is the name of the largest commissure?
Rubella
Corpus callosum
John Watson
Adolescent
30. A medical doctor with a degree who specializes in psychotherapy - who can prescribe drugs
Mean
Psychiatrist
The Premack Principle
Permissive
31. What is: the period of sexual maturation?
Developmental norm
Puberty
Social health
Egocentrism
32. Cultural bias not generally known across all subcultures
Sexual orientation
They were not scientifically performed
Psychometrics
Depth perception
33. There are usually two groups in an experiment - titled:
Experimental group and control group
Monocular cues
Stage
Hour of love
34. What is the enzyme deficiency that can cause mental retardation without treatment?
Best friend
Neonate
Puberty
Phenylketonuria (PKU)
35. What purpose do fontanels have?
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36. Which protective brain layer is the strongest and thickest?
Celibacy
Psychiatrist
Dura mater
Classification
37. Parenting styles: respects individually - but tries to instill social values
Fetal alcohol syndrome
In vitro fertilization
Breast-feeding
Authoritative
38. How many PAIRS of chromosomes do body cells have?
23 pairs
Erik Erikson
Permissive
Humanistic Theorists
39. What part of the central nervous system controls all necessary functions of the body?
The brain
Gilligan
Dyslexia
Monocular cues
40. What are the two different classifications of intelligence?
Fluid intelligence and crystal intelligence
Daydreaming
Down syndrome
Adrenal glands
41. Age at which most children will identify specific 'best-friends'
10
Parallel play
Timbre
Morality of Justice
42. What is the rating system to judge a baby's functionality when first born?
Absolute threshold
Babbling
RU-486
Virginia Apgar - or Apgar Rating
43. A higher number of the correlation coefficient closer to the number one shows a:
Strong correlation
1 in 14 -000
Fit in
Telegraphic speech
44. What is the main relay station for incoming sensory signals to the cerebral cortex - and outgoing motor signals from it?
Belonging and love
Free morpheme
B.F. Skinner
Thalamus
45. What is: attraction to both sexes?
Occipital lobe
Bisexual
Hypothalamus
Stimulus generalization
46. What is: a statistical measure of typical scores for categories of information?
Consciousness
Best friend
Developmental norm
Mentally retarded
47. What is: the theory focused on the individual's unconscious motivations?
23 pairs
4
Psychoanalytical
A census
48. Rogers and Maslow are both:
Humanistic Theorists
Absolute threshold
Classical conditioning works more to explain reflexive or unconscious reactions - Operant conditioning works to explain elective actions and reactions
Stimulus generalization
49. What is the term for the death of a child under one year - for no apparent reason?
Carl Rogers
Behavioral
The posterior (back) fontanel: within two months of birth. The anterior (front) fontanel: by the child's 2nd birthday.
Sudden Infant Death Syndrome
50. What is: a state of mental balance - reconciling new experiences with new understanding
Babbling
Equilibrium
John Watson
Around age two