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DSST Lifespan Developmental Psychology
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1. What houses memories and controls our responses to different sensory signals?
Sampling
Adolescent
The cerebrum
Esteem needs
2. The larger the sample:
Limbic system
The more accurate the result
Morality of Justice
Preschooler
3. What is the perception characteristic that: if you have heard a movie is scary - you might be more inclined to get scared?
3
Full (46)
Contextual
Experimental group and control group
4. Defense mechanism in which complete rejection of the feeling or situation
Denial
Breast-feeding
Irritability - social responsiveness - and activity level
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
5. What are the five areas of Apgar Rating - with scores of 0-2 in each?
Dyslexia
Adrenal glands
Appearance - pulse - grimace (reflex) - activity - and respiration
Cerebellum
6. What is: a mix of gender identity - gender roles - and orientation; recognition of ourselves as sexual beings.
Sexual identity
Mental health
Safety
Reinforcer
7. Which protective brain layer is the strongest and thickest?
A will
Independent variable
Sterilization
Dura mater
8. What is a fertilized ovum or egg?
Operant Conditioning
Creative
3
Zygote
9. What is the main symptom of hyperactivity?
Gender roles
Short attention span
Psychometrics
Rubella
10. Who was the psychoanalyst who documented stages of emotional growth in regards to babies?
Jean Piaget
Perception
ADHD
Erik Erikson
11. Stage in which whether you will be punished or not determines what is moral or not - also called the punishment and obiedience phase
Stage 1
Psychiatrist
Fetal alcohol syndrome
Naturalistic observation
12. What are the four characteristics of perception?
Watching their parents
Automatic - selective - contextual - and creative
Resilient child
Elaboration
13. Also called learning theory - based on the principle of observing and correcting behavior
Alfred Binet
Wilhelm Wundt
Behaviorism
Emergency contraception
14. What are: drugs taken within three days to prevent pregnancy from instances such as no protection - or a broken condom?
Gender role stereotypes
Emergency contraception
Gentle birth
Wilhelm Wundt
15. How many different theories of language development are there?
Down syndrome
Three
Timbre
12+
16. 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
Esteem needs
Syphillis and rubella
Sweet - bitter - salty - sour
Three
17. What is the term for identical twins?
Bound morpheme
Norplant
Wilhelm Wundt
Monozygotic twins
18. 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
Extinction
Half (23)
Ego
Random assignment
19. Id - Ego - and Super Ego were all founded by who?
Sigmund Freud
Hurried-child
Toxic shock syndrome
Kibbutz
20. Children that are raised on the Kibbutz will often:
Conception
Harry Harlow
Have more bland personalities and often difficult for them to create and maintain intimate relationships as they have a lack of emotional depth
Intrinsic reinforcer
21. All senses report to the thalamus except for one--which?
Structuralism
Hippocampus
Thalamus
Smell
22. What syndrome is characterized by small stature - poor coordination - hyperactive - learning disabilities - mental retardation - or large head?
Denial
Mean
Fetal Alcohol Syndrome
Miscarriages or stillbirths
23. Defense mechanism: you deny your feelings and come up with ways to justify your behavior
Have more bland personalities and often difficult for them to create and maintain intimate relationships as they have a lack of emotional depth
Id
Papillae
Rationalization
24. Gifted children often hide gifts to ______.
Gender
Fit in
Physical needs
Absolute threshold
25. What is: structures in the cerebral cortex related to memory and emotion?
2
Limbic system
It measures a child against their peers - in that moment
Natural prepared childbirth
26. The average of a data set
Down syndrome
Mean
Inner ear
3 & 4
27. What is the name of the scientist known as the father of genetics and inheritance?
Gilligan
Mendel
Punishment
Figurative language
28. What is the simple type of learning for getting used to something?
Figurative language
Anger (Emotion)
Habituation
None!!
29. Where nursing care is given meant to maximize the quality of life for someone who is dying
Not fully developed; but can distinguish color - track movement - and bright objects.
Hospice
Gender
Have more bland personalities and often difficult for them to create and maintain intimate relationships as they have a lack of emotional depth
30. The number which occurs the most often
Chomsky
Mode
Toddler
Zygote
31. Self-esteem begins forming in:
Kubler-Ross's Stages of Dying
Conception
Infertility
Middle childhood
32. First stage in the Kubler-Ross's Stages of Dying: 'This could never happen to me. This must be a mistake'
Cesarean birth
Noise
Denial (Shock)
Depth perception
33. Aside from learning disabilities - what physical problem do Kleinfelter people have?
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34. Which of these diseases can cause miscarriage - stillbirth - heart defects - deafness - and other problems?
Critical period
Rubella
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
Egocentric behavior
35. What is: expression of your maleness or femaleness on a daily basis?
Stillbirth
William James
Gender roles
Not fully developed; but can distinguish color - track movement - and bright objects.
36. Who thought of the mind as a stream of consciousness--a flow of emotions - sensations and thoughts?
Hollow phrases
Naturalistic observation
William James
Echolalia
37. The best way to teach children values is?
Through actions - doing what you believe is correct
Stage 6
Gonads
Sweet - bitter - salty - sour
38. In children babbling begins around age _____ - while in deaf infants babbling usually begins around several months later
Autism
Kibbutz
Rite of Passage
Six or seven months
39. What is: the elated feeling adolescents have - that they are immune to risks - mortality and probability; false sense of security thinking they will never fall or get caught.
Cross Sectional Study
Invincibility fable
Jean Piaget
Self-actualization
40. Why did studies used by Piaget and Freud lead to wrong conclusions?
They were not scientifically performed
Natural prepared childbirth
Behavioral
Gestures
41. What is the variable that the experimenter controls?
Independent variable
Behaviorism
...
Timbre
42. How much is hearing developed in neonates?
Zygote
Reinforcer
Middle-age Adult
Mostly developed by the time of birth
43. What coordinates all movements and muscles?
Conception
Selective
Cerebellum
Displacement
44. What is: growth from the center (spine) outward - where vital organs form before the extremities?
Consciousness
Proximodistal
Avoid punishment
Bell would ring - then feed the dogs - Dogs would salivate when given food - Over time dogs began to salivate simply at ring of bell
45. If a mother catches rubella in first trimester - what is the chance that the fetus is affected?
90%
Family therapy
Crystallized intelligence
Cochlea
46. Stage in which you do what is right in order to gain status or approval from other people or society; 'good boy-good girl' orientation
Unoccupied behavior - onlooker - solitary independent (plays alone) - parallel play (plays around but not w/ others) - associative - cooperative play
Accommodation
Stage 3
Not fully developed; but can distinguish color - track movement - and bright objects.
47. Why are IQ scores only accurate for short periods of time?
Cornea and lens
Self-actualization
It measures a child against their peers - in that moment
...
48. What is the term for lack of responsiveness to other people?
Inner ear
10-14 months
Autism
Habituation
49. What is: the fluid filled structure in the inner ear that looks like a snail?
Cochlea
Long labors or birth complications
Mentally retarded
Gilligan
50. Stages of friendship: intimate
They were not scientifically performed
9-15
Peer group
Conceive at younger ages
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