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DSST Lifespan Developmental Psychology
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1. What syndrome is characterized by small stature - poor coordination - hyperactive - learning disabilities - mental retardation - or large head?
Fetal Alcohol Syndrome
4-9
Sexual identity
Six or seven months
2. What is: a child (especially preschool age) doesn't take into consideration other people's needs--their perceptions are limited to their own point of view
Longitudinal fissure
Egocentric behavior
Gender
Up to 6 months of observation by doctors
3. How do you fix the problem of mother's cells attacking the baby's?
Injections
Best friend
Nature vs. nurture
...
4. A term used to describe something similar in structure or organization
Qualitative
Clinical psychologist
Sweet - bitter - salty - sour
Homophobia
5. What is the ring of muscles that makes up the colored part of the eye?
Cerebellum
Iris
The cerebrum
Operant conditioning
6. What is a learning disability in math - where concepts are learned one day and forgotten the next?
B.F. Skinner
5 & 6
Quantitative
Dyscalcula
7. What is the main symptom of hyperactivity?
Sexual orientation
Middle childhood
Self-esteem
Short attention span
8. What is: the amount of pressure produced by a sound wave - measured in decibels?
Convergent thinking
Strong correlation
Amplitude
Social development or social cognition
9. What determines physical traits and is inherited from one or both parents?
Stillbirth
Intestate
Gene
Fetal death
10. A reinforcer that is physical (tangible) or from the environment - like payment for work - or a prize
Extrinsic reinforcer
Proximodistal
Fluid intelligence and crystal intelligence
Dyslexia
11. What is the chance of a baby having PKU?
Absolute threshold
Cephalocaudal
Family situation - the world around you - lifespan - and maturity.
1 in 14 -000
12. Fourth step in Maslow's Hierarchy of needs in which you begin to think about you self-esteem and how you feel as a person
Adolescent
Erik Erikson
Stage 3
Esteem needs
13. Which stage of development is: Initiative vs. Guilt? (trying different roles)
Adolescent Egocentrism
Kubler-Ross's Stages of Dying
Preschooler
Fontanels
14. What is: another form of consciousness involving very little effort; dreaming while awake or letting the mind wander?
Watching their parents
Skin appearance - 'age spots' - hair
Autonomic Nervous System
Daydreaming
15. Gilligan believed that Kholberg's theory described the male progression which she called the what?
Morality of Justice
3-7
Excitement - plateau - orgasm - and resolution phases
Mean
16. Does a gamete (reproductive) cell have full or half set of chromosomes?
Half (23)
Rationalization
Excitement - plateau - orgasm - and resolution phases
Figurative language
17. 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
Selective
Stage 6
Cross-modal perception
Carl Rogers
18. Third element: There is a gap between what the child can do with help - and what they can do on their own; shows when a child has finally learned it
Classical conditioning
Stage 3
Denial (Shock)
Zone of Proximal Development
19. What is: the part of the ear inside the cochlea; contains sensors that change energy into impulses to be decoded by the brain?
Organ of corti
Independent variable
Osteoporosis
Endocrine system
20. Who argued that classical conditioning explains some behaviors - but operant conditioning plays a much larger role?
Daydreaming
B.F. Skinner
Spiritual - emotional - mental - and social health
Pituitary gland
21. Stage in which whether you will be punished or not determines what is moral or not - also called the punishment and obiedience phase
Alfred Binet
Preschooler
Pitch
Stage 1
22. Sigmund Freud's analysis of human personality and subconscious drives features three main components including:
Gradually through shaping
Id - Ego - Super Ego
Biological; Behavioral; Cognitive; Humanistic; Psychoanalytical; Structuralism; Functionalism; Nature vs. Nurture
Condom
23. What are areas in a baby's skull where cartilage hasn't yet hardened into bone?
Pavlov; classical conditioning
Fontanels
Weak correlation
Gonads
24. What are the factors that influence psychosocial health?
Family situation - the world around you - lifespan - and maturity.
Half (23)
Accommodation
Monocular cues
25. Biological theories of aging: as our bodies age - our immune systems become less effective at fighting disease - stress - etc.
Sexual identity
Avoid punishment
Autoimmune Theory
Thalamus
26. 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.
Lewis Terman
Cerebrospinal fluid
On chromosomes
Nature
27. A method of modifying behavior - by ignoring the behavior so you don't have the response
Fluid intelligence
Dependent variable
Have more bland personalities and often difficult for them to create and maintain intimate relationships as they have a lack of emotional depth
Response extinction
28. A type of conditioning in which a person associates an action with a consequence
Bandura
Operant Conditioning
Morality of Care
Stage
29. What is: the process by which a society identifies its expectations?
Parallel play
Socialization
Fetal alcohol syndrome
23 pairs
30. What is: when a sample is taken from the fluid in the amniotic sac - to be tested for diseases or genetic traits?
Amniocentesis
Gilligan
Preparatory Depression
Teratogens
31. Who proposed fluid/crystallized intelligence?
Raymond Cattell
Structuralism
Gestures
No
32. Defense mechanism: feelings are redirected to someone else
Crystallized intelligence
Displacement
Around age two
Inner ear
33. 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?
Psychoanalytical
Visual cliff
Nurture
Opens and closes to let the correct amount of light in
34. How much alcohol is the safe amount to consume during pregnancy?
Correlation Research
Monocular cues
Bias
None!!
35. In a kibbutz - the real parents of children may see them for one hour a day - a time referred to as the __________.
Cornea
Hour of love
Have more bland personalities and often difficult for them to create and maintain intimate relationships as they have a lack of emotional depth
Stage 4
36. Visible signs of aging include:
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37. In the Harlow experiment: between the wire monkey+bottle - and cloth monkey+no bottle - which fake mother did the babies prefer?
Excitement - plateau - orgasm - and resolution phases
The cloth monkey
Dura mater
Response extinction
38. How much are the eyes developed in newborns?
Family practitioner
...
Raymond Cattell
Not fully developed; but can distinguish color - track movement - and bright objects.
39. We smell when airborne molecules of an odor reach tiny receptor cells in the top of the nasal cavity; what is the name of this receptor area?
Childhood depression
First trimester
Dependent variable
Olfactory epithelium
40. Piaget believed that the individual actively constructs knowledge about the world--what is the term for this?
Naturalistic observation
Papillae
Cognitive theorist
Ageism
41. What is: the theory centered on behavior; see person as blank slate upon which impressions of experiences can be recorded.
Hollow phrases
Absolute threshold
Behavioral
Avoid punishment
42. What is: a period in a child's development in which he/she is capable of understanding some things but not others
Cephalocaudal and Proximodistal
Three
Reciprocal determinism
Stage
43. What fluid covers the brain - and is used to transport chemicals and regulate pressure?
School-age Child
Middle childhood
Pituitary gland
Cerebrospinal fluid
44. Which thought process is: many ideas are brainstormed to explore many possible solutions; used in creative settings?
Independent variable
Divergent thinking
Self-actualization - Esteem needs - Belonging and love - Safety - Physical needs
Laboratory observation
45. What are the different types of caregivers for pregnancy?
Freud
Obstetrician-gynecologist - family practitioner - or midwife
Cerebral anoxia
Pitch
46. What is: growth from the head downward (head develops before rest of the body)?
Preoperational stage (ages 3-6)
Cerebrum
Rods
Cephalocaudal
47. What is: an M.D. who provides comprehensive care for people of all ages?
Fetal Alcohol Syndrome
Permissive
Cones
Family practitioner
48. One's wishes for the distribution of one's property and possessions after death
Thalamus
Modeling
Habituation
A will
49. The process of unassociating the condition with the response
Extinction
More Knowledgeable Other (MKO)
Phonemes
Papillae
50. Who did the study between stimulus and response with dogs; and what did he discover?
Displacement
Clinical psychologist
Pavlov; classical conditioning
Mental age/Chronological age - x 100