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DSST Lifespan Developmental Psychology
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1. What is: the gland that controls release of hormones from the gonads?
Rods
Pituitary gland
First trimester
No correlation
2. What is the very critical period of the first 3 months in the womb?
Prenatal development
Resilient child
23 pairs
Auditory System
3. What is: sexual self-stimulation or masturbation?
Unoccupied behavior - onlooker - solitary independent (plays alone) - parallel play (plays around but not w/ others) - associative - cooperative play
The posterior (back) fontanel: within two months of birth. The anterior (front) fontanel: by the child's 2nd birthday.
Autoerotic behavior
Six months
4. What is: the part of the ear inside the cochlea; contains sensors that change energy into impulses to be decoded by the brain?
Kibbutz
Organ of corti
Fetal Alcohol Syndrome
Excitement - plateau - orgasm - and resolution phases
5. Teaches that when a certain action is performed - there are consequences--reinforces good behavior with extrinsic/intrinsic reinforcers
Operant conditioning
Reaction Formation
Irritability - social responsiveness - and activity level
Parallel play
6. If a mother catches rubella in first trimester - what is the chance that the fetus is affected?
Nature
Skin appearance - 'age spots' - hair
90%
Frequency
7. What is the conception alternative where fertilization of the egg is done outside the body - and then transferred back into the body?
Dialectical perspective
Contraception
In vitro fertilization
Psychiatrist
8. The final stage of Maslow's Hierarchy of needs. A stage you may never actually meet.
Self-actualization
Social development or social cognition
Dizygotic twins
Extinction
9. What is: dynamic blend of our experiences - heredity - environment - etc. which determines how we react to problems/issues?
Breast-feeding
Humanistic
Because at birth cells aren't well connected (lacking in myelin - or nerve insulation)
Personality
10. What determines physical traits and is inherited from one or both parents?
The brain stem
Gene
The Montessori Method
Cooing
11. List the levels (in order) of Kohlberg's Theory of Moral Development
Preconventional - conventional - postconventional
Young-old
B.F. Skinner
Semantics
12. How does the pupil work?
Reaction Formation
90%
Opens and closes to let the correct amount of light in
Maslow
13. Defense mechanism: you deny your feelings and come up with ways to justify your behavior
Bell would ring - then feed the dogs - Dogs would salivate when given food - Over time dogs began to salivate simply at ring of bell
Cerebral anoxia
Francis Bacon--16th century
Rationalization
14. What is: the process by which a society identifies its expectations?
Socialization
Hypokinetic diseases
Classical conditioning works more to explain reflexive or unconscious reactions - Operant conditioning works to explain elective actions and reactions
Inner ear
15. What percent of children in kindergarten are immunized?
Genetic Mutation
99%
Freud
23 pairs
16. Child's realization their sex will stay the same
Down syndrome
Regression
Family practitioner
Gender conservation
17. Not physical abuse but when the child feels rejected or feels failure
5
Psychological maltreatment
Naturalistic observation
Retina
18. Stages of friendship: intimate
Parietal lobe
Baby Albert
9-15
Rubella
19. What are the four characteristics of perception?
Automatic - selective - contextual - and creative
Cerebral palsy
Self-concept
Alternative - or artificial - insemination
20. What side of the N/N debate means that all children are first good; believe it is the way they are brought up that affects personality and actions?
Monozygotic twins
Natural observation
Nurture
4-9
21. Believed each person had an idea of a 'perfect person' and tried to work towards being like that person as much as possible - believing that people needed to become 'fully functioning' individuals
Vestibular sense
Cerebellum
Carl Rogers
Longitudinal fissure
22. Which part of the ANS is the calming part of the system?
Parasympathetic
4-9
It measures a child against their peers - in that moment
Inner ear
23. What is: the type of thought that has to do with factual information--trivia - vocabulary - science - history?
It measures a child against their peers - in that moment
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
Suppression
Crystallized intelligence
24. A reinforcer that comes from within the individual--something emotional.
Cesarean birth
5
Rods
Intrinsic reinforcer
25. All other variables w/in an experiment that researchers do not have control over
3 & 4
Dependent variable
Socialization
Olfactory epithelium
26. When do children develop object permanence?
Rite of Passage
Alternative - or artificial - insemination
Quantitative
Around age two
27. John Bowlby felt that attachment held evolutionary purpose. Explain
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
Id - Ego - Super Ego
Qualitative
Nurture
28. Age at which children begin to share their toys and interact w/ one another - associative play
Social health
Contextual
Stage 3
3
29. Age at which most children will identify specific 'best-friends'
50%
4
10
IUD
30. Who was the psychoanalyst who documented stages of emotional growth in regards to babies?
Erik Erikson
Five
Medicated delivery
Psychological maltreatment
31. When is anoxia a problem in births?
Auditory System
Long labors or birth complications
Explicit role instruction
5 & 6
32. What is the term for the death of a child under one year - for no apparent reason?
Classical conditioning
Monocular cues
Positive Correlation
Sudden Infant Death Syndrome
33. When people are followed and studied over a long period of time and checked up on at certain points
Divergent thinking
Longitudinal Study
Elaboration
Preschooler
34. What system is made up of the hypothalamus and other glands?
Contraception
Morality of Justice
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
Endocrine system
35. What part of the central nervous system controls all necessary functions of the body?
Gentle birth
Injections
The brain
Cognitive
36. How can parents avoid down syndrome in their children?
Conceive at younger ages
Babbling
Accommodation
Preparatory Depression
37. In children babbling begins around age _____ - while in deaf infants babbling usually begins around several months later
Adolescent Egocentrism
Six or seven months
Survey
Reinforcer
38. Usually has a doctoral degree in psychology plus an internship; cannot prescribe medicine.
Clinical psychologist
Valid
Proximodistal
Gender roles
39. Who did the study between stimulus and response with dogs; and what did he discover?
Kleinfelter Syndrome; male
Telegraphic speech
Hippocampus
Pavlov; classical conditioning
40. What is: a permanent facility control done through surgical procedures?
B.F. Skinner
Personality
Psychometrics
Sterilization
41. Visible signs of aging include:
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42. Defense mechanism in which complete rejection of the feeling or situation
Wilhelm Wundt
Denial
Adolescent
Visual cliff
43. Fourth stage in the Kubler-Ross's Stages of Dying: 'There's nothing I can do about this'
Conceive at younger ages
Gender identity
Preparatory Depression
All drugs - including over the counter - aspirin - coffee
44. What is: term used to describe a person's belief that they can perform a task successfully?
Self-efficacy
They can be coached into learning a type of test--do better or worse - etc.
Cesarean birth
RU-486
45. What syndrome occurs when someone two X and one Y chromosome...and what gender does this make?
Random assignment
Cornea
Stage 2
Kleinfelter Syndrome; male
46. What is the name for minimum amount of something we can detect or sense?
10-14 months
Absolute threshold
Gilligan
Operant conditioning
47. How was the visual cliff study conducted?
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48. What are the five areas of Apgar Rating - with scores of 0-2 in each?
Appearance - pulse - grimace (reflex) - activity - and respiration
Wear-and-Tear Theory
50%
Holophrase syntax
49. What are: vibrations in the air that we receive through the ear to be processed?
Sound waves
Monozygotic twins
Naturalistic observation
Erik Erikson
50. In a child - can be expressed as 'nobody likes me'
Childhood depression
Adrenal glands
It measures a child against their peers - in that moment
Psychiatrist