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DSST Lifespan Developmental Psychology
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1. First stage in the Kubler-Ross's Stages of Dying: 'This could never happen to me. This must be a mistake'
Classification
Denial (Shock)
Babbling
Irritability - social responsiveness - and activity level
2. What is: areas of the body which - when touched - lead to sexual arousal?
2
Erogenous zones
Accommodation
You need two - one from each parent - to conceive.
3. What part of the central nervous system controls all necessary functions of the body?
Operant conditioning
Correlational research
The brain
Infertility
4. What is: attraction to the same sex?
Cerebrum
Abortion
Cesarean birth
Homosexual
5. When people are followed and studied over a long period of time and checked up on at certain points
Rite of Passage
Longitudinal Study
Six months
5
6. If you are A positive blood - what is that in terms of Rh factor?
Rh positive
Reinforcer
Gender
Teratology
7. What is: your interactions with others in social situations
Social health
Classification
Hurried-child
Preconventional Morality
8. Third stage in the Kubler-Ross's Stages of Dying: 'If you don't die I will do the following...'
Cerebrum
Bargaining
Crystallized intelligence
Contextual
9. Gilligan believed that ________ conflicted between self and other - while ________ conflicted between self and justice
Women - men
Hippocampus
Excitement - plateau - orgasm - and resolution phases
Old-old
10. Which stage of development is: Trust vs. Mistrust?
Infant
Sound waves
Regression
Depo-Provera
11. What is the medical means to terminate a pregnancy?
Nature vs. nurture
Kohlberg
Abortion
Safety
12. 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?
Olfactory epithelium
Proximodistal
Spermicides
Correlational research
13. Level 1 of Kohlberg's Theory of Moral Development includes which stages
1) Gather info - 2) Generate hypothesis - 3) Test hypothesis - 4) Revise
Gestures
Virginia Apgar - or Apgar Rating
1 & 2
14. The best way to teach children values is?
5
Stage 1
Olfactory epithelium
Through actions - doing what you believe is correct
15. What is: another form of consciousness involving very little effort; dreaming while awake or letting the mind wander?
Cross-modal perception
Autonomic Nervous System
Intrinsic reinforcer
Daydreaming
16. When something from conditioning carries over to another related area; made baby Albert afraid of all furry animals - rather than just rats
Genes
Subjects may be dishonest w/ their answers
Stimulus generalization
Olfactory epithelium
17. Children are most likely to achieve if parents:
Androgynous
Set high standards - assist along the way
As they age
Experimental research
18. What is: the way the brain organizes and gives meaning to information provided by the senses?
Fetal Alcohol Syndrome
Perception
Subjects may be dishonest w/ their answers
Experimental research
19. Types of child play in chronological order:
Sterilization
Rods
Cognitive
Unoccupied behavior - onlooker - solitary independent (plays alone) - parallel play (plays around but not w/ others) - associative - cooperative play
20. The number which occurs the most often
They can be coached into learning a type of test--do better or worse - etc.
Adolescent Egocentrism
Social development or social cognition
Mode
21. The integrator between the outer and inner worlds - as well as the id and the superego. Gives continuity and consistency to behavior by providing a personal point of reference - which relates to the events of the past and actions of the present and o
Thalamus
Ego
Automatic - selective - contextual - and creative
Behavioral
22. Believing women followed a different progression than men - she called the moral progression of the woman what?
Occipital lobe
Behavioral
Fontanels
Morality of Care
23. What disorder causes a person to have difficulty concentration - be easily distracted - or constantly in motion?
Spiritual - emotional - mental - and social health
Because at birth cells aren't well connected (lacking in myelin - or nerve insulation)
ADHD
Operant conditioning
24. What are the three different types of teratogens?
Drugs - diseases (like HIV - rubella) - and pollutants (mercury - radiation - etc)
Five
Frontal lobe
1) Gather info - 2) Generate hypothesis - 3) Test hypothesis - 4) Revise
25. 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
Egocentric behavior
Contraception
Family therapy
Stillbirth
26. Who proposed fluid/crystallized intelligence?
Bargaining
Sexually transmitted diseases
Raymond Cattell
Young Adult
27. What is the rating system to judge a baby's functionality when first born?
Mode
Ethics
Emotional neglect
Virginia Apgar - or Apgar Rating
28. Which stage of development is: Autonomy vs. Shame and Doubt (making their own decisions)
Toddler
Lens
Semantics
William James
29. Gifted children often hide gifts to ______.
Reaction Formation
Fit in
Spiritual - emotional - mental - and social health
Psychological Tests
30. How is extinction best achieved?
Stage 4
Conservation
Selective
Gradually through shaping
31. Aside from learning disabilities - what physical problem do Kleinfelter people have?
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32. Stage in which a person makes decisions according to his or her conscience; the universal ethical principal orientation; not many people ever reach this stage
Olfactory epithelium
Contraception
Stage 6
Occipital lobe
33. What is the term to describe the thinking part of health?
Parallel play
Mendel
Naturalistic observation
Mental health
34. In children babbling begins around age _____ - while in deaf infants babbling usually begins around several months later
Six or seven months
90%
Cerebral palsy
Obstetrician-gynecologist
35. Where a group of people live together and the children of all the people are raised by one or two people
Breast-feeding
Spiritual health
First trimester
Kibbutz
36. Defense mechanism: hiding the feelings and not acknowledging them
Syphillis and rubella
Suppression
Obstetrician-gynecologist
Rubella
37. What is: the period of sexual maturation?
Kibbutz
Puberty
Short attention span
A census
38. What is: the bumps on top of the tongue that contain taste buds?
Self-actualization - Esteem needs - Belonging and love - Safety - Physical needs
Drugs - diseases (like HIV - rubella) - and pollutants (mercury - radiation - etc)
Kibbutz
Papillae
39. What kind of problem can it cause when a husband and wife have different blood types?
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40. What is: T-shaped device implanted in uterus by a physician for five to ten years at a time?
Androgynous
2
IUD
9-15
41. What is the name for the two halves of the brain?
Bell would ring - then feed the dogs - Dogs would salivate when given food - Over time dogs began to salivate simply at ring of bell
Strong correlation
Daydreaming
Cerebrum
42. What is: your feelings and reactions
Appearance - pulse - grimace (reflex) - activity - and respiration
Emotional health
2
Psychoanalytical
43. What are: vibrations in the air that we receive through the ear to be processed?
Bound morpheme
Sound waves
Rubella
Wear-and-Tear Theory
44. Defense mechanism: you deny your feelings and come up with ways to justify your behavior
B.F. Skinner
Rationalization
Rubella
Hurried-child
45. When can a person's short term memory become incapacitated?
Not fully developed; but can distinguish color - track movement - and bright objects.
As they age
Harry Harlow
Lewis Terman
46. What syndrome is characterized by small stature - poor coordination - hyperactive - learning disabilities - mental retardation - or large head?
Fetal Alcohol Syndrome
Pons
Mainstreaming
Fontanels
47. A way of obtaining information about a specific type of information in which questionnaires are given out to participants who are then asked to answer the questions to the best of their ability
Six months
Explicit role instruction
Survey
Preparatory Depression
48. Stereotypes in genders; boys play with trucks and girls wear makeup - etc.
Ego
Wilhelm Wundt
Gender conservation
Explicit role instruction
49. What is: the theory to investigate the elements or 'structures' of the mind; classify structures and focus on conscious thought
Structuralism
Erik Erikson
Convergent thinking
Have more bland personalities and often difficult for them to create and maintain intimate relationships as they have a lack of emotional depth
50. Age at which children begin to share their toys and interact w/ one another - associative play
Jean Piaget
3
Consciousness
Raymond Cattell