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DSST Lifespan Developmental Psychology

Subjects : dsst, psychology
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. What is: attraction to the opposite sex?






2. What is being able to reproduce knowledge from memory?






3. The ethical component of the personality and provides the moral standards by which the ego operates






4. First step in Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs such as food water and shelter






5. What is: the theory centered on behavior; see person as blank slate upon which impressions of experiences can be recorded.






6. Where are genes carried?






7. What is: the difference made to one's mind by the process of assimilation?






8. What is the simple type of learning for getting used to something?






9. What is the ability to identify correctly something encountered before?






10. What is: the understanding of more advanced classification; that some sets are also sub-sets of a larger class?






11. Rang the bell each time he fed the dog; eventually how early did the dogs start salivating?






12. 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.






13. A type of research done inside of a lab - selected to monitor specific biological changes in individuals by using expensive and sophisticated machinery






14. Stage in which whether you will be punished or not determines what is moral or not - also called the punishment and obiedience phase






15. What is: the process of working something out in your head; shows the difference between young children (act and try things out) and older (can do things in their heads)






16. Dying w/o a will






17. A person who uses ______ has a stated position - but also acknowledges that it may change over time.






18. Who coined the Theory of Moral Development?






19. What is the chance of having a boy or girl - according to Mendel's experiments in genetics?






20. Anything which makes a behavior more likely to occur






21. 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.






22. Who created the first scientific psychology laboratory?






23. What is: when a person or animal responds to a neutral stimulus with a meaningful one






24. What is the rating system to judge a baby's functionality when first born?






25. What is the white part of the eye that protects and manages the shape of the eye?






26. Fourth stage in the Kubler-Ross's Stages of Dying: 'There's nothing I can do about this'






27. Experiment when none of the doctors - researchers - and participants know who is getting the real drug






28. What is the part in the back of the eye that includes receptors called rods and cones?






29. What is the ring of muscles that makes up the colored part of the eye?






30. What is the perception characteristic that: you don't have to think about it for it to happen?






31. What houses memories and controls our responses to different sensory signals?






32. List the levels (in order) of Kohlberg's Theory of Moral Development






33. True or False: Kohlberg believed that you go through each step of moral development one @ a time and could not skip them.






34. Rogers and Maslow are both:






35. Which lobe is related to vision?






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






37. What most-extreme fate does syphillis often cause in infants?






38. Parenting styles: respects individually - but tries to instill social values






39. What determines physical traits and is inherited from one or both parents?






40. What are the two different classifications of intelligence?






41. A baby repeating what you just said






42. Age at which most children will identify specific 'best-friends'






43. What is the name for the bundles of axons - used to communicate between the two halves of brain?






44. Which receptor is more sensitive to light - but is not used to view color?






45. An environment where children live and attend school






46. The scientific study of words and sentences






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






48. What is: the most developed - and largest (80%) - part of the brain?






49. Child's realization their sex will stay the same






50. How much alcohol is the safe amount to consume during pregnancy?