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DSST Lifespan Developmental Psychology
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1. What are areas in a baby's skull where cartilage hasn't yet hardened into bone?
Social health
50%
Fontanels
Francis Bacon--16th century
2. Level 2 of Kohlberg's Theory of Moral Development includes which stages
Classical conditioning works more to explain reflexive or unconscious reactions - Operant conditioning works to explain elective actions and reactions
Cornea
Fontanels
3 & 4
3. What is: generalizations about each gender - such as that men are aggressive and logical - and women are nurturing and emotional
99%
Weak correlation
Occipital - temporal - frontal - and parietal.
Gender role stereotypes
4. What is the factor that always stays the same?
Excitement - plateau - orgasm - and resolution phases
Constant
Childhood depression
Punishment
5. Those who are mentally retarded are least likely to also have WHAT condition?
Self-actualization - Esteem needs - Belonging and love - Safety - Physical needs
Cerebral palsy
Anger (Emotion)
Virginia Apgar - or Apgar Rating
6. Piaget believed that the individual actively constructs knowledge about the world--what is the term for this?
Cognitive
Clinical psychologist
Cognitive theorist
Hour of love
7. What two other chemicals do the adrenal glands secrete?
Cones
The more accurate the result
Self-actualization - Esteem needs - Belonging and love - Safety - Physical needs
Epinephrine and norepinephrine
8. Cultural bias not generally known across all subcultures
Down syndrome
Gerontology
Psychometrics
Subjects may be dishonest w/ their answers
9. What is a specific period in development when a certain event has the greatest impact? (For example - a certain period of time when a young bird can learn to fly)
Humanistic
Sterilization
Critical period
Freud
10. Types of child play in chronological order:
As soon as the bell was rung
Fluid intelligence
Unoccupied behavior - onlooker - solitary independent (plays alone) - parallel play (plays around but not w/ others) - associative - cooperative play
Stillbirth
11. Categories of old age: 75-84
Middle-old
Survey
Full (46)
Longitudinal fissure
12. What is the approach that assumes people organize their perceptions by patterns?
Unoccupied behavior - onlooker - solitary independent (plays alone) - parallel play (plays around but not w/ others) - associative - cooperative play
Gestalt psychology
Social development or social cognition
Independent variable
13. What is the white part of the eye that protects and manages the shape of the eye?
As they age
Selera
Gene
Medicated delivery
14. 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
Wear-and-Tear Theory
Erogenous zones
90%
15. Children that are raised on the Kibbutz will often:
On chromosomes
The more accurate the result
Pitch
Have more bland personalities and often difficult for them to create and maintain intimate relationships as they have a lack of emotional depth
16. A number between +1 and -1 that measures the strength between two variables
The meanlinkk of utterance (how long their sentences are)
Correlation coefficient
Cognitive
Autism
17. What is the simple type of learning for getting used to something?
Habituation
Response extinction
Independent variable
Cross-modal perception
18. What is: term used to describe a person's belief that they can perform a task successfully?
Sexual identity
Preparatory Depression
Self-efficacy
Old Age
19. How is ADHD diagnosed?
Up to 6 months of observation by doctors
Monocular cues
50%
Dyslexia
20. What is: psychological definition for having more equal personality characteristics between male&female?
Sigmund Freud
Fetal death
Cross Sectional Study
Androgynous
21. Self-aware - recognized - defined
Self-concept
Put babies on their backs to sleep - and not have anything extra (toys - pillows etc) in the bed or crib.
Morality of Justice
Biological
22. Who created the first scientific psychology laboratory?
Developmental norm
None!!
Wilhelm Wundt
Medicated delivery
23. Who taught women breathing procedures to get through childbirth - including panting?
Ferdinand Lamaze
Sexual identity
Deferred imitation
Pituitary gland
24. What are the four layers that protect the brain?
The skull - dura mater membrane - arachnoid layer - and pia mater.
Crystallized intelligence
Loudness
2
25. Stage in which you see the right action as what satisfies your personal needs; a person becomes aware of two different viewpoints
Divergent thinking
In vitro fertilization
Fetal death
Stage 2
26. Environment in which two (or more) children sit side by side - or near each other - and play without interacting with the other child or trying to influence them in any way. Most children engage in this type of enviornment.
Midwife
Mental health
Developmental norm
Parallel play
27. When people are followed and studied over a long period of time and checked up on at certain points
Free morpheme
Rh positive
Commissures
Longitudinal Study
28. What side of the N/N debate means that a child will be born with whatever disposition - tastes - personality they were 'meant' to have; believe that there are bad seeds.
12+
Depth perception
Nature
Explicit role instruction
29. What is the conception alternative where fertilization of the egg is done outside the body - and then transferred back into the body?
Fetal alcohol syndrome
Hospice
Object permanence
In vitro fertilization
30. What is the part of the ear that includes the eardrum - anvil - and stirrup?
Middle ear
Opens and closes to let the correct amount of light in
Attention Deficit Disorder and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
Excitement - plateau - orgasm - and resolution phases
31. Who believed that the unconscious motivates our actions - through the id - ego - and superego?
1 in 14 -000
Freud
Egocentrism
Androgynous
32. What is: a mix of gender identity - gender roles - and orientation; recognition of ourselves as sexual beings.
Sexual identity
Rationalization
Humanistic
The cerebrum
33. What is the part in the back of the eye that includes receptors called rods and cones?
Operant conditioning
Retina
Contextual
Iris
34. What is the medical term for birth of a dead baby?
Put babies on their backs to sleep - and not have anything extra (toys - pillows etc) in the bed or crib.
Semantics
No correlation
Stillbirth
35. Parenting styles: respects individually - but tries to instill social values
John Bowlby's Attachment Theory
Gentle birth
Zygote
Authoritative
36. What do endocrine glands do?
Binocular cues
Create and release chemicals into the blood
Zygote
The brain
37. Defined as diseases which are either related to or caused by a sedentary lifestyle - in other words - caused by the lack of regular exercise or activity
Hypokinetic diseases
Social learning theory
Holophrase syntax
Mode
38. What is the conception alternative where semen is deposited into the body via a thin tube?
Olfactory epithelium
Multiple caretakers
Left hand - left eye - and simple comprehension
Alternative - or artificial - insemination
39. What is the study done to show that infants have depth perception?
Resilient child
Abortion
Through actions - doing what you believe is correct
Visual cliff
40. What is: located in the limbic system - with primary function to store memories?
Monozygotic twins
Hippocampus
Sexual orientation
Outer ear
41. Who introduced the scientific method?
Francis Bacon--16th century
Emotional health
Puberty
Longitudinal fissure
42. 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?
Autism
Morality of Justice
Assimilation
Fontanels
43. Aside from learning disabilities - what physical problem do Kleinfelter people have?
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44. Children are most likely to achieve if parents:
Qualitative
2
Psychoanalytical
Set high standards - assist along the way
45. Defense mechanism: feelings are redirected to someone else
Displacement
Survey
Put babies on their backs to sleep - and not have anything extra (toys - pillows etc) in the bed or crib.
Gestures
46. Who developed the theory of social development?
Vygotsky
Gene
Valid
Content validity
47. What are the two directions of growth in the embryo?
Cephalocaudal and Proximodistal
Frequency
Excitement - plateau - orgasm - and resolution phases
Obstetrician-gynecologist - family practitioner - or midwife
48. Biological theories of aging: the number of cells that have problems or mutations that increase w/ age
Biological; Behavioral; Cognitive; Humanistic; Psychoanalytical; Structuralism; Functionalism; Nature vs. Nurture
Encoding the information - represnting the information - and retrieving information from memory.
Genetic Mutation
Irritability - social responsiveness - and activity level
49. What is when the baby is born in a pool or bath with dim lights?
Spiritual - emotional - mental - and social health
Down syndrome
Gentle birth
Baby Albert
50. What is the opening of the iris - which looks black?
Wilhelm Wundt
Suppression
Pupil
Correlation coefficient