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DSST Lifespan Developmental Psychology

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1. What is: hatred and fear of homosexuals?






2. What do endocrine glands do?






3. When does language development begin?






4. An environment where children live and attend school






5. What is: when a sample is taken from the fluid in the amniotic sac - to be tested for diseases or genetic traits?






6. Which part of the ANS is the arousing part of the system?






7. What is: growth from the center (spine) outward - where vital organs form before the extremities?






8. Age at which children begin to share their toys and interact w/ one another - associative play






9. The first experiment of classical conditioning was done by who?






10. What is: the way the brain organizes and gives meaning to information provided by the senses?






11. What is the method in which a variable and constant are use to test theories?






12. What is: any pill designed to prevent pregnancy?






13. Who did the study between stimulus and response with dogs; and what did he discover?






14. Categories of old age: 75-84






15. When someone sees an incomplete form - they fill in the pieces and perceive it as it would be that way. What Gestalt principle is this an example of?






16. What is the variable that the experiment is trying to test?






17. Does a somatic (body) cell have a full - or half - set of chromosomes?






18. Used to show links between people - events - actions - behaviors - etc. while not determining the caus - rather is linked to statistics






19. What is: the theory focused on the individual's unconscious motivations?






20. Who argued that classical conditioning explains some behaviors - but operant conditioning plays a much larger role?






21. Why does a gamete have a half set of chromosomes?






22. Read pages 22-25 for charts: Piaget's Stages of Development and Freud's Psychosexual Stages






23. How is ADHD diagnosed?






24. Disagreed w/ Kohlberg's Theory of Moral Development because his subjects were mainly male






25. Level 2 of Kohlberg's Theory of Moral Development includes which stages






26. Method that teaches children to realized their full potential.






27. What system is made up of the hypothalamus and other glands?






28. 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?






29. Applied when a test measures something more than one facet






30. What is the study done to show that infants have depth perception?






31. Who believed that the unconscious motivates our actions - through the id - ego - and superego?






32. What is: an M.D. who provides comprehensive care for people of all ages?






33. Types of child play in chronological order:






34. Children that are raised on the Kibbutz are used to study the effects of what?






35. When a participant fills out a survey themselves about themselves






36. 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






37. What is: term for how much someone values and respects themselves?






38. A baby repeating what you just said






39. What is the conception alternative where semen is deposited into the body via a thin tube?






40. What is: expression of your maleness or femaleness on a daily basis?






41. Is there currently a cure for Alzheimer's disease?






42. What is: the process by which a society identifies its expectations?






43. A reinforcer that comes from within the individual--something emotional.






44. 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






45. Which stage of development is: Initiative vs. Guilt? (trying different roles)






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






47. Who made the first IQ test?






48. Children are most likely to achieve if parents:






49. What is: sexual self-stimulation or masturbation?






50. 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.