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DSST Lifespan Developmental Psychology
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1. What controls breathing and heart rate?
Short attention span
Self-concept
Abstinence
Pons
2. If a test measures what is meant to measure it is considered what?
...
Neonate
Valid
Pupil
3. What is: the process by which a society identifies its expectations?
Neonate
Encoding the information - represnting the information - and retrieving information from memory.
Socialization
It measures a child against their peers - in that moment
4. What fluid covers the brain - and is used to transport chemicals and regulate pressure?
Cerebrospinal fluid
Sexual orientation
Displacement
Bargaining
5. What is: a period in a child's development in which he/she is capable of understanding some things but not others
Stage
Commissures
...
ADHD
6. What is the term to describe the thinking part of health?
Mental health
Base of the skull; size of a pea
Frontal lobe
Subject
7. Stages of friendship: Momentary playmates
Parasympathetic
Independent variable
3-7
Cones
8. What do children in early language development not understand?
Morality of Care
Figurative language
Absolute threshold
Thalamus
9. Where a group of people live together and the children of all the people are raised by one or two people
The Premack Principle
Half (23)
Kibbutz
True
10. Four steps of the scientific method include:
Olfactory epithelium
Gestalt psychology
Norplant
1) Gather info - 2) Generate hypothesis - 3) Test hypothesis - 4) Revise
11. Which stage of development is: Ego Integrity vs. Despair? (what they have done with their life)
Response extinction
Dialectical perspective
Old Age
Francis Bacon--16th century
12. Final stage in the Kubler-Ross's Stages of Dying: 'I'm ready'
Zone of Proximal Development
Middle ear
Free morpheme
Acceptance
13. What is: your sense of being a man or woman as defined by society?
Mental health
Psychoanalytical
As they age
Gender
14. What are the two directions of growth in the embryo?
Cephalocaudal and Proximodistal
Conservation
5 & 6
Gerontology
15. The larger the sample:
Three percent
The more accurate the result
Ivan Pavlov
The meanlinkk of utterance (how long their sentences are)
16. What is the white part of the eye that protects and manages the shape of the eye?
Selera
Full (46)
Papillae
Cephalocaudal
17. What is the method in which a variable and constant are use to test theories?
The brain/the cerebral cortex
Experimental research
Bias
Skin appearance - 'age spots' - hair
18. When do children develop object permanence?
10-14 months
Mental health
Reinforcer
Around age two
19. 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
Carl Rogers
Egocentric behavior
Conservation
Genetic Mutation
20. The process of unassociating the condition with the response
The brain
Psychometrics
Extinction
Organ of corti
21. The best way to teach children values is?
Temporal lobe
Through actions - doing what you believe is correct
Depth perception
Rationalization
22. What is the method to find the amount that one variable changes in relation to another?
Family situation - the world around you - lifespan - and maturity.
Correlational research
Virginia Apgar - or Apgar Rating
Echolalia
23. The repetition of certain syllables
Babbling
Family practitioner
1) Gather info - 2) Generate hypothesis - 3) Test hypothesis - 4) Revise
Emotional health
24. What is the name of the scientist known as the father of genetics and inheritance?
Gestalt psychology
Outer ear
Skin appearance - 'age spots' - hair
Mendel
25. What is: your feelings and reactions
Qualitative
Emotional health
Subject
Androgynous
26. What are: chemicals designed to kill sperm?
Spermicides
As soon as the bell was rung
Contraception
Parasympathetic
27. Believing women followed a different progression than men - she called the moral progression of the woman what?
Morality of Care
Lewis Terman
Stage 3
The right hand - right eye - and speech
28. What is: the process by which a person takes material into their mind from the environment - which may mean changing sensory evidence to make it fit?
Strong correlation
10
Assimilation
Olfactory sense
29. A medical doctor with a degree who specializes in psychotherapy - who can prescribe drugs
Encoding the information - represnting the information - and retrieving information from memory.
Infertility
Psychiatrist
Convergent thinking
30. What purpose do fontanels have?
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31. What is the part in the back of the eye that includes receptors called rods and cones?
Maslow
Mental health
Genetic Mutation
Retina
32. In children babbling begins around age _____ - while in deaf infants babbling usually begins around several months later
Six or seven months
Self-efficacy
Create and release chemicals into the blood
Median
33. What is: your interactions with others in social situations
Sigmund Freud
Gender roles
Syphillis and rubella
Social health
34. Who did the study between stimulus and response with dogs; and what did he discover?
Alternative - or artificial - insemination
Pavlov; classical conditioning
Suppression
Androgynous
35. What is: when the mother consumes alcohol while her babies are in the womb?
Fetal alcohol syndrome
Long labors or birth complications
1 in 14 -000
Young-old
36. The study of the aging process
Infertility
Gerontology
Cognitive improvement
Modeling
37. A number between +1 and -1 that measures the strength between two variables
Correlation coefficient
Pituitary gland
Women - men
Contextual
38. What is: the study of substances which are harmful to prenatal development?
William James
Mental health
Chomsky
Teratology
39. Who conducted a longitudinal study of smart kids - resulting that they become happy adults?
Lewis Terman
Modeling
Cephalocaudal and Proximodistal
Autoerotic behavior
40. A communication style in which single words are used to communicate - typical of toddlers learning to speak - for example 'give' or 'mama'. The meaning is still understood even though complete sentences are not used
Young-old
Cornea
Slowed growth - body/face malfunctions - nervous system disorders - mental retardation.
Holophrase syntax
41. Rang the bell each time he fed the dog; eventually how early did the dogs start salivating?
Medicated delivery
As soon as the bell was rung
Mode
Hollow phrases
42. When people of different ages are studied at one particular time
Hollow phrases
Cross Sectional Study
Raymond Cattell
Binocular cues
43. What is: long lasting contraceptive where six capsules are injected in a woman's arm?
Toddler
Kibbutz
Norplant
10-14 months
44. A lower number of the correlation coefficient - closer to the number zero shows a:
The skull - dura mater membrane - arachnoid layer - and pia mater.
The brain
Weak correlation
Perception
45. What is the most popular method for giving birth?
Pituitary gland
Amplitude
Medicated delivery
Social aspect of language
46. Therapy that involves the whole family
Family therapy
Because at birth cells aren't well connected (lacking in myelin - or nerve insulation)
Holophrase syntax
Autoimmune Theory
47. Which protective brain layer is the strongest and thickest?
Dura mater
The right hand - right eye - and speech
The posterior (back) fontanel: within two months of birth. The anterior (front) fontanel: by the child's 2nd birthday.
Anger (Emotion)
48. 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
Nature vs. nurture
Ego
Amplitude
Gender role stereotypes
49. 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
Stage 6
Sexually transmitted diseases
Rubella
Fetal death
50. What is: irrelevant stimuli that compete for our attention (like traffic)
Egocentric behavior
Operant Conditioning
Sublimation
Noise
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