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DSST Lifespan Developmental Psychology
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. A child that is always in a hurry
Hurried-child
Naturalistic observation
Loudness
School-age Child
2. When people are followed and studied over a long period of time and checked up on at certain points
Middle childhood
Longitudinal Study
Peer group
Fontanels
3. States that infants need to form at least one strong attachment such as to a parent - in order to develop normally
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4. Teaches that when a certain action is performed - there are consequences--reinforces good behavior with extrinsic/intrinsic reinforcers
William James
Corpus callosum
Operant conditioning
Raymond Cattell
5. A lower number of the correlation coefficient - closer to the number zero shows a:
Extrinsic reinforcer
Wilhelm Wundt
Lewis Terman
Weak correlation
6. What is the name of the scientist known as the father of genetics and inheritance?
Cerebrum
Humanistic
Fit in
Mendel
7. What is the chance of a baby having PKU?
1 in 14 -000
Accommodation
...
Resilient child
8. What is the term for: a child's understanding that once you leave the room - you are not gone forever - etc.?
Gentle birth
10-14 months
Heterosexual
Object permanence
9. Second stage in the Kubler-Ross's Stages of Dying: 'This is unfair. Why me?'
All drugs - including over the counter - aspirin - coffee
Diaphragm
Anger (Emotion)
Through actions - doing what you believe is correct
10. What is: the method to prevent an egg and sperm from being able to access each other?
Stage 4
Contraception
Phenylketonuria (PKU)
Spermicides
11. What determines physical traits and is inherited from one or both parents?
Gene
The skull - dura mater membrane - arachnoid layer - and pia mater.
Sexually transmitted diseases
Condom
12. What are the four components of psychosocial health?
Stage 1
Cerebral anoxia
Spiritual - emotional - mental - and social health
Miscarriages or stillbirths
13. What is the very critical period of the first 3 months in the womb?
Sympathetic - parasympathetic - and enteric
Prenatal development
Baby Albert
Proximodistal
14. According to both Kohlberg and Piaget - the most immature reason to do something is to:
Infertility
Pituitary gland
Avoid punishment
Retina
15. Which stage of development is: Initiative vs. Guilt? (trying different roles)
Cross-modal perception
Watching their parents
Preschooler
Clinical psychologist
16. What are the three things to monitor - to measure temperament in infants?
Ethics
Irritability - social responsiveness - and activity level
Midwife
Pia mater
17. Which part of the ANS is the arousing part of the system?
Independent variable
They can be coached into learning a type of test--do better or worse - etc.
Heterosexual
Sympathetic nervous system
18. Why is autism rare in children for the first 2 1/2 years?
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19. What houses memories and controls our responses to different sensory signals?
Ivan Pavlov
Vestibular sense
Nature
The cerebrum
20. What two things make up the central nervous system?
You need two - one from each parent - to conceive.
Cornea
Brain and spinal cord
Independent variable
21. Who thought of the mind as a stream of consciousness--a flow of emotions - sensations and thoughts?
Authoritarian
4-9
Middle childhood
William James
22. What is: relating new information to something familiar
Denial (Shock)
Elaboration
Cognitive
Natural prepared childbirth
23. What is the method to find the amount that one variable changes in relation to another?
Mean
Three
The cloth monkey
Correlational research
24. What is the chance of having a boy or girl - according to Mendel's experiments in genetics?
50%
Preparatory Depression
Excitement - plateau - orgasm - and resolution phases
School-age Child
25. Level 2 of Kohlberg's Theory of Moral Development includes which stages
3 & 4
Around age two
On chromosomes
Parasympathetic
26. The best way to teach children values is?
Egocentric behavior
Through actions - doing what you believe is correct
Cognitive
Correlation coefficient
27. Parenting styles: makes few demands - hardly ever punishes
Cognitive theorist
Random assignment
Permissive
Infant
28. The ethical component of the personality and provides the moral standards by which the ego operates
Adrenal glands
Preconventional - conventional - postconventional
Regression
Super Ego
29. A reinforcer that is physical (tangible) or from the environment - like payment for work - or a prize
Sexual orientation
Natural observation
Extrinsic reinforcer
Egocentrism
30. What is being able to reproduce knowledge from memory?
Recall
Elaboration
Preconventional Morality
Self-actualization - Esteem needs - Belonging and love - Safety - Physical needs
31. Gifted children often hide gifts to ______.
The cloth monkey
Fit in
Daydreaming
Abstinence
32. What is the term for fraternal twins?
Automatic
Preconventional - conventional - postconventional
Old Age
Dizygotic twins
33. What are: vibrations in the air that we receive through the ear to be processed?
Sound waves
Injections
Neonate
Dizygotic twins
34. What is: the understanding of more advanced classification; that some sets are also sub-sets of a larger class?
Cerebrospinal fluid
Half (23)
Hospice
Class inclusion
35. The first experiment of classical conditioning was done by who?
Middle childhood
Ivan Pavlov
Mentally retarded
Operant conditioning
36. What is the main symptom of hyperactivity?
Irritability - social responsiveness - and activity level
Elaboration
Fetal death
Short attention span
37. What is the term for the death of a child under one year - for no apparent reason?
Conservation
Frequency
Midwife
Sudden Infant Death Syndrome
38. What is the rating system to judge a baby's functionality when first born?
Mendel
Virginia Apgar - or Apgar Rating
ADHD
Middle ear
39. What is: irrelevant stimuli that compete for our attention (like traffic)
Noise
The more accurate the result
If the mom and child have different blood types - the mom's cells can attack the baby.
Pituitary gland
40. What is: hatred and fear of homosexuals?
Kubler-Ross's Stages of Dying
Punishment
Homophobia
Rite of Passage
41. The negative effects of sensory deprivation (not as much attention) are more likely to _______ w/ the length of the stage.
Parallel play
Sexual identity
Genes
Increase
42. What is: areas of the body which - when touched - lead to sexual arousal?
Morality of Care
Strong correlation
Gentle birth
Erogenous zones
43. What percentage of children are affected by hyperactivity?
Timbre
Amniocentesis
Sudden Infant Death Syndrome
Three percent
44. What are the two different classifications of intelligence?
Fluid intelligence and crystal intelligence
Excitement - plateau - orgasm - and resolution phases
Explicit role instruction
Toddler
45. What is a learning disability in math - where concepts are learned one day and forgotten the next?
Irritability - social responsiveness - and activity level
Dyscalcula
Esteem needs
Spermicides
46. Which lobe is related to voluntary muscles and intelligence?
Injections
Frontal lobe
Assimilation
Half (23)
47. What side of the N/N debate means that a child will be born with whatever disposition - tastes - personality they were 'meant' to have; believe that there are bad seeds.
Esteem needs
Old Age
IUD
Nature
48. What is the clear membrane in front of the eye that protects it?
1) Gather info - 2) Generate hypothesis - 3) Test hypothesis - 4) Revise
Family situation - the world around you - lifespan - and maturity.
Cornea
Consciousness
49. What is: your interactions with others in social situations
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
Hospice
Social health
School-age Child
50. Who founded the Hierarchy of Needs theory?
Classical conditioning works more to explain reflexive or unconscious reactions - Operant conditioning works to explain elective actions and reactions
Fetal tobacco syndrome
Limbic system
Maslow