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DSST Lifespan Developmental Psychology

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1. Child's realization their sex will stay the same
Pavlov; classical conditioning
Sound waves
Gender conservation
The brain/the cerebral cortex

2. What is the factor that always stays the same?
Constant
2
Crystallized intelligence
Infants were placed on a solid - opaque surface - and the mothers were placed at the end of the table - where the opaque ended and glass begun. The infants didn't want to cross the glass because they could see the distance between themselves and the

3. If you are A positive blood - what is that in terms of Rh factor?
Displacement
Fit in
You need two - one from each parent - to conceive.
Rh positive

4. What are the four characteristics of perception?
Adolescent Egocentrism
Vestibular sense
Nature
Automatic - selective - contextual - and creative

5. Teaches that when a certain action is performed - there are consequences--reinforces good behavior with extrinsic/intrinsic reinforcers
Operant conditioning
Epinephrine and norepinephrine
Social learning theory
Experimental group and control group

6. Who coined the Theory of Moral Development?
Half (23)
True
Psychiatrist
Kohlberg

7. A type of research done inside of a lab - selected to monitor specific biological changes in individuals by using expensive and sophisticated machinery
1 in 14 -000
Laboratory observation
3 & 4
Teratogens

8. What is the part in the back of the eye that includes receptors called rods and cones?
Denial (Shock)
Retina
Bandura
RU-486

9. True or False: Kohlberg believed that you go through each step of moral development one @ a time and could not skip them.
Ethics
Self-concept
True
Binocular cues

10. What is the least developed part of a newborn (growth is not complete)?
The brain/the cerebral cortex
Informed consent
Mental age/Chronological age - x 100
A census

11. What is: the fluid filled structure in the inner ear that looks like a snail?
Natural prepared childbirth
Cellular Theory
Recall
Cochlea

12. What is: when the mother consumes alcohol while her babies are in the womb?
Sound waves
Behavioral
Fetal alcohol syndrome
Dura mater

13. The process of unassociating the condition with the response
They can be coached into learning a type of test--do better or worse - etc.
Extinction
Rationalization
Peer group

14. Removing something unpleasant from a situation - to make a behavior more likely
Belonging and love
The meanlinkk of utterance (how long their sentences are)
Alternative - or artificial - insemination
Negative reinforcer

15. What do doctors agree is the best way to feed babies?
Convergent thinking
Breast-feeding
Abstinence
Emergency contraception

16. What is: the theory centered on behavior; see person as blank slate upon which impressions of experiences can be recorded.
Classical conditioning works more to explain reflexive or unconscious reactions - Operant conditioning works to explain elective actions and reactions
Behavioral
Alzheimer's Disease
Intestate

17. What is the chance of a baby having PKU?
Appearance - pulse - grimace (reflex) - activity - and respiration
Mental health
Cerebrum
1 in 14 -000

18. What are the four lobes of the brain?
Reciprocal determinism
Recall
The penis doesn't grow and breasts may develop.
Occipital - temporal - frontal - and parietal.

19. Which lobe is related to body sensations?
Invincibility fable
Parietal lobe
Emergency contraception
Dyslexia

20. Which lobe is related to voluntary muscles and intelligence?
Median
Have more bland personalities and often difficult for them to create and maintain intimate relationships as they have a lack of emotional depth
Infants were placed on a solid - opaque surface - and the mothers were placed at the end of the table - where the opaque ended and glass begun. The infants didn't want to cross the glass because they could see the distance between themselves and the
Frontal lobe

21. What are the two different classifications of intelligence?
Fluid intelligence and crystal intelligence
Old-old
Parallel play
Valid

22. What percentage of children are affected by hyperactivity?
12+
Three percent
Classical conditioning works more to explain reflexive or unconscious reactions - Operant conditioning works to explain elective actions and reactions
Multiple caretakers

23. What is: the ability to group objects together on the basis of common features?
Classification
Hurried-child
Mostly developed by the time of birth
Unoccupied behavior - onlooker - solitary independent (plays alone) - parallel play (plays around but not w/ others) - associative - cooperative play

24. What is: a mix of gender identity - gender roles - and orientation; recognition of ourselves as sexual beings.
Sexual identity
Emotional neglect
Kleinfelter Syndrome; male
Alzheimer's Disease

25. Read pages 22-25 for charts: Piaget's Stages of Development and Freud's Psychosexual Stages
Random assignment
Authoritative
...
Inner ear

26. When people of different ages are studied at one particular time
Cross Sectional Study
Convergent thinking
Six or seven months
Stimulus generalization

27. Who proposed fluid/crystallized intelligence?
Gerontology
Weak correlation
Raymond Cattell
Negative reinforcer

28. Children that are raised on the Kibbutz are used to study the effects of what?
Rationalization
Multiple caretakers
Loudness
Harry Harlow

29. Stages that a person goes through when they find out they have an incurable disease or find out they are going to die

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30. What is: the study of substances which are harmful to prenatal development?
Create and release chemicals into the blood
Self-concept
Teratology
Infertility

31. What is: an M.D. who provides comprehensive care for people of all ages?
Occipital lobe
Family practitioner
B.F. Skinner
Sympathetic - parasympathetic - and enteric

32. What two other chemicals do the adrenal glands secrete?
Epinephrine and norepinephrine
Preoperational stage (ages 3-6)
Authoritative
Egocentrism

33. What part of the central nervous system controls all necessary functions of the body?
The brain
Drugs - diseases (like HIV - rubella) - and pollutants (mercury - radiation - etc)
Bias
Independent variable

34. If a test measures what is meant to measure it is considered what?
Independent variable
Zygote
Gestalt psychology
Valid

35. Rang the bell each time he fed the dog; eventually how early did the dogs start salivating?
Not fully developed; but can distinguish color - track movement - and bright objects.
Teratogens
Pia mater
As soon as the bell was rung

36. What is: a state of mental balance - reconciling new experiences with new understanding
John Watson
Equilibrium
Mostly developed by the time of birth
Free morpheme

37. What is: psychological definition for having more equal personality characteristics between male&female?
Functionalism
Corpus callosum
Psychometrics
Androgynous

38. When do children develop object permanence?
Around age two
Sigmund Freud
5 & 6
Erik Erikson

39. Gilligan believed that Kholberg's theory described the male progression which she called the what?
Morality of Justice
Personality
1) Gather info - 2) Generate hypothesis - 3) Test hypothesis - 4) Revise
Classical conditioning works more to explain reflexive or unconscious reactions - Operant conditioning works to explain elective actions and reactions

40. What is: the ability to associate something from one area of knowledge - and use that to determine or imagine what it is like in other aspects?
Cross-modal perception
Harry Harlow
Independent variable
Pituitary gland

41. What is: a person's attraction to other people?
Sexual orientation
Elaboration
Gestures
Deferred imitation

42. Who argued that classical conditioning explains some behaviors - but operant conditioning plays a much larger role?
Alzheimer's Disease
Sterilization
Cognitive theorist
B.F. Skinner

43. Who introduced the scientific method?
Automatic - selective - contextual - and creative
Francis Bacon--16th century
Gerontology
Dizygotic twins

44. The most direct measure of syntax in middle childhood is what?
The meanlinkk of utterance (how long their sentences are)
Proximodistal
Dura mater
Parietal lobe

45. In children babbling begins around age _____ - while in deaf infants babbling usually begins around several months later
Six or seven months
Stage 1
Toxic shock syndrome
Encoding the information - represnting the information - and retrieving information from memory.

46. A correlation coefficient of zero
No correlation
Psychological maltreatment
As soon as the bell was rung
Authoritative

47. What is: the difference made to one's mind by the process of assimilation?
Sigmund Freud
Accommodation
Erik Erikson
Wilhelm Wundt

48. A child that bounces back from a difficult situation
Resilient child
Echolalia
Cerebral anoxia
Androgynous

49. What is: hatred and fear of homosexuals?
Class inclusion
Spermicides
Homophobia
Olfactory sense

50. If a mother catches rubella in first trimester - what is the chance that the fetus is affected?
Morality of Justice
Correlation coefficient
Experimental research
90%