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DSST Lifespan Developmental Psychology
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1. All other variables w/in an experiment that researchers do not have control over
Brain and spinal cord
Dependent variable
Wilhelm Wundt
Conservation
2. What are the three different types of teratogens?
Drugs - diseases (like HIV - rubella) - and pollutants (mercury - radiation - etc)
Intrinsic reinforcer
Vestibular sense
Rods
3. What is the term for oxygen deficiency to the brain?
Slowed growth - body/face malfunctions - nervous system disorders - mental retardation.
ADHD
Cerebral anoxia
Divergent thinking
4. A disorder where the bones are weakened and become porous - like a sponge
John Watson
Osteoporosis
4
Preconventional - conventional - postconventional
5. When a participant fills out a survey themselves about themselves
The Montessori Method
Bargaining
Self-report data
Stage 2
6. A reinforcer that comes from within the individual--something emotional.
Subject
Toxic shock syndrome
The cerebrum
Intrinsic reinforcer
7. What are the four areas of taste that taste-buds recognize?
Infertility
Autoimmune Theory
Sweet - bitter - salty - sour
Authoritative
8. What is the sense that gives information about balance and body movement? (if your body is moving - tilting - etc.)
The penis doesn't grow and breasts may develop.
Vestibular sense
Natural observation
12+
9. Level 1 of Kohlberg's Theory of Moral Development
Preconventional Morality
Parasympathetic
Mental health
Projection
10. What does STDs stand for - including AIDS and herpes?
Structuralism
Resilient child
Women - men
Sexually transmitted diseases
11. What do physicians recommend to prevent SIDS?
Fontanels
Binocular cues
Obstetrician-gynecologist
Put babies on their backs to sleep - and not have anything extra (toys - pillows etc) in the bed or crib.
12. Who did the study between stimulus and response with dogs; and what did he discover?
Closure
Family situation - the world around you - lifespan - and maturity.
Iris
Pavlov; classical conditioning
13. A number between +1 and -1 that measures the strength between two variables
Auditory System
Autoerotic behavior
Mental age/Chronological age - x 100
Correlation coefficient
14. What glands affect the mood - energy level - and stress?
Adrenal glands
99%
Sympathetic - parasympathetic - and enteric
The right hand - right eye - and speech
15. What is the term for the death of a child under one year - for no apparent reason?
Hippocampus
Subject
Sudden Infant Death Syndrome
Organ of corti
16. What is: the tone color or perceptual quality of a sound?
Psychiatrist
3 & 4
Parasympathetic
Timbre
17. Who conducted a longitudinal study of smart kids - resulting that they become happy adults?
10
Cesarean birth
Lewis Terman
Social health
18. Which thought process is a creative process?
Cerebral palsy
Convergent thinking
Divergent thinking
Egocentrism
19. What is: the theory based on biology; belief that behavior and personality are linked to genetics
Biological
90%
Puberty
Morality of Justice
20. What is a sometimes-fatal disease occuring from the excessive use of tampons - or leaving a diaphragm in - for longer than prescribed time?
Amplitude
Pons
Kohlberg
Toxic shock syndrome
21. What is: a mix of gender identity - gender roles - and orientation; recognition of ourselves as sexual beings.
Sexual identity
Cross-modal perception
Experimental research
Dependent variable
22. What is the least developed part of a newborn (growth is not complete)?
Class inclusion
Cross Sectional Study
Informed consent
The brain/the cerebral cortex
23. Dying w/o a will
Cerebrospinal fluid
Intrinsic reinforcer
Intestate
Ethics
24. When does language development begin?
Six months
Semantics
Medicated delivery
Convergent thinking
25. Defense mechanism in which complete rejection of the feeling or situation
Excitement - plateau - orgasm - and resolution phases
Self-actualization - Esteem needs - Belonging and love - Safety - Physical needs
Smell
Denial
26. A morpheme that can be a word on its own
Erogenous zones
Cornea and lens
Free morpheme
Object permanence
27. What controls breathing and heart rate?
Cognitive
Spiritual health
Pons
Cooing
28. Disagreed w/ Kohlberg's Theory of Moral Development because his subjects were mainly male
Gilligan
Dura mater
Egocentrism
In vitro fertilization
29. What is the rating system to judge a baby's functionality when first born?
The brain stem
Daydreaming
Behaviorism
Virginia Apgar - or Apgar Rating
30. What is the name for the awareness of external and internal events?
Consciousness
Psychiatrist
Cochlea
Fetal Alcohol Syndrome
31. What is the main difference between classical and operant conditioning?
Osteoporosis
Clinical psychologist
Put babies on their backs to sleep - and not have anything extra (toys - pillows etc) in the bed or crib.
Classical conditioning works more to explain reflexive or unconscious reactions - Operant conditioning works to explain elective actions and reactions
32. Second development of language - still pre-speech; repetition of meaningful sounds
Babbling
Operation
They were not scientifically performed
Anger (Emotion)
33. There are usually two groups in an experiment - titled:
Median
Jean Piaget
Half (23)
Experimental group and control group
34. In children babbling begins around age _____ - while in deaf infants babbling usually begins around several months later
Sterilization
Six or seven months
William James
Semantics
35. Something pleasant used to make a behavior more likely
Cerebral anoxia
Set high standards - assist along the way
Belonging and love
Positive reinforcer
36. A signal to society that certain rules have changed - this person is no longer a child
Negative reinforcer
Classical conditioning works more to explain reflexive or unconscious reactions - Operant conditioning works to explain elective actions and reactions
Rite of Passage
Divergent thinking
37. What is the method to find the amount that one variable changes in relation to another?
Epinephrine and norepinephrine
Classical conditioning works more to explain reflexive or unconscious reactions - Operant conditioning works to explain elective actions and reactions
B.F. Skinner
Correlational research
38. Level 2 of Kohlberg's Theory of Moral Development includes which stages
Unoccupied behavior - onlooker - solitary independent (plays alone) - parallel play (plays around but not w/ others) - associative - cooperative play
Old-old
Attention Deficit Disorder and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
3 & 4
39. Theory that every function in the child's cultural development appears twice: first between people - then inside the child.
Genes
Social development or social cognition
Rationalization
Young-old
40. What types of drugs can hurt a developing fetus if taken by the mother?
Put babies on their backs to sleep - and not have anything extra (toys - pillows etc) in the bed or crib.
Esteem needs
All drugs - including over the counter - aspirin - coffee
Recognition
41. Children that are raised on the Kibbutz are used to study the effects of what?
Multiple caretakers
Genetic Mutation
Humanistic Theorists
RU-486
42. What is: structures in the cerebral cortex related to memory and emotion?
Limbic system
Bell would ring - then feed the dogs - Dogs would salivate when given food - Over time dogs began to salivate simply at ring of bell
Hurried-child
Lewis Terman
43. Who created functionalism?
Lewis Terman
Acceptance
William James
Injections
44. The smallest unit of a word which has meaning - may be bound or free
Preoperational stage (ages 3-6)
Psychiatrist
Morphemes
3 & 4
45. In the Harlow experiment: between the wire monkey+bottle - and cloth monkey+no bottle - which fake mother did the babies prefer?
Allow the skull's plates of bone to shift or flex - making childbirth easier.
The cloth monkey
Cognitive improvement
Babbling
46. How many PAIRS of chromosomes do body cells have?
Pia mater
...
Fetal Alcohol Syndrome
23 pairs
47. What two diseases - when caught early in the pregnancy - are most dangerous to the fetus?
Dyscalcula
Homosexual
Syphillis and rubella
Humanistic
48. What is the chance of having a boy or girl - according to Mendel's experiments in genetics?
Egocentrism
Watching their parents
50%
Medicated delivery
49. Why is self-report data not as reliable as other research methods?
Olfactory sense
Opens and closes to let the correct amount of light in
Subjects may be dishonest w/ their answers
Homophobia
50. Categories of old age: 65-74
Cones
Young-old
Daydreaming
Olfactory sense