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DSST Lifespan Developmental Psychology
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1. What kind of childbirth did Dr. Grantly Dick Read start teaching?
Natural prepared childbirth
Placebo effect
Cross-modal perception
Pavlov; classical conditioning
2. What is the simple type of learning for getting used to something?
Oral contraceptives
Habituation
Babbling
1 in 14 -000
3. Removing something unpleasant from a situation - to make a behavior more likely
Negative reinforcer
Harry Harlow
6
Experimental research
4. Believing women followed a different progression than men - she called the moral progression of the woman what?
Morality of Care
Sublimation
Limbic system
Social learning theory
5. When a participant starts to feel the effects of the drug but is actually taking a sugar pill or placebo
Placebo effect
Independent variable
Auditory System
Natural observation
6. A child that bounces back from a difficult situation
Auditory System
Adolescent
Resilient child
...
7. What are the three parts of memory?
Encoding the information - represnting the information - and retrieving information from memory.
Gradually through shaping
Sudden Infant Death Syndrome
Six months
8. A medical doctor with a degree who specializes in psychotherapy - who can prescribe drugs
Psychiatrist
Best friend
Equilibrium
Stage 6
9. Biological theories of aging: like everything else in the world - the human body wears out
Attention Deficit Disorder and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
Social development or social cognition
Sexual orientation
Wear-and-Tear Theory
10. Age at which most children will identify specific 'best-friends'
Wilhelm Wundt
Gender identity
Placebo effect
10
11. Which stage of development is: Identity vs. Role Confusion? (who am I)
Obstetrician-gynecologist
Adolescent
The more accurate the result
Lewis Terman
12. Defense mechanism: a type of displacement - a redirection of the feeling into a socially productive activity
Set high standards - assist along the way
Sublimation
Neonate
Lens
13. What is: sheath of thin latex designed to catch sperm upon ejaculation?
Erogenous zones
Harry Harlow
Response extinction
Condom
14. Self-esteem begins forming in:
Middle childhood
Kohlberg
Contraception
Cross-modal perception
15. 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
Increase
Kubler-Ross's Stages of Dying
Permissive
16. Defense mechanism: transferring your thoughts and feelings onto others
Mentally retarded
Automatic - selective - contextual - and creative
Projection
Pitch
17. Why isn't an IQ test a good indicator for children over long periods of time?
The brain
3 & 4
Baby Albert
They can be coached into learning a type of test--do better or worse - etc.
18. What is: the debate between whether a child is born a bad seed--with whatever disposition/tastes/personality they were meant to have; or that a child is born good - with their upbringing affecting their later personality and actions.
Nature vs. nurture
Ego
5 & 6
The cerebrum
19. What is: the belief that you are the center of the universe and everything revolves around you - and the inability to see the world as someone else does and adapt to it.
Vygotsky
Sublimation
Lewis Terman
Egocentrism
20. Third step in Maslow's Hierarchy of needs in which you may want to meet needs of belongings and love through relationships
Gilligan
Belonging and love
Pitch
3 & 4
21. What thought process is supported by the example that: infants are given an object to hold - and then can recognize by sight the object.
Longitudinal Study
Cross-modal perception
Schema
Rods
22. The variable in which the researcher has direct control over
As soon as the bell was rung
Object permanence
Alzheimer's Disease
Independent variable
23. The best way to teach children values is?
Through actions - doing what you believe is correct
Id - Ego - Super Ego
Mentally retarded
Cesarean birth
24. What is: expression of your maleness or femaleness on a daily basis?
Elaboration
Drugs - diseases (like HIV - rubella) - and pollutants (mercury - radiation - etc)
Gender roles
Authoritarian
25. Dying w/o a will
Cross-modal perception
Intestate
Automatic - selective - contextual - and creative
Hollow phrases
26. Anything which makes a behavior more likely to occur
Reinforcer
Sterilization
Socialization
Raymond Cattell
27. What is the main symptom of hyperactivity?
Celibacy
Self-efficacy
Naturalistic observation
Short attention span
28. What is: irrelevant stimuli that compete for our attention (like traffic)
Phenylketonuria (PKU)
RU-486
You need two - one from each parent - to conceive.
Noise
29. Individual sounds w/ in a word
Phonemes
Sweet - bitter - salty - sour
Gestures
Cesarean birth
30. Which stage of development is: Autonomy vs. Shame and Doubt (making their own decisions)
Toddler
Mainstreaming
Conception
Young-old
31. What is: the theory centered on studying how the mind is involved in knowing - learning - remembering - thinking; study how the mind relates to behavior
Operation
Cognitive
Appearance - pulse - grimace (reflex) - activity - and respiration
Homophobia
32. What disorder causes a person to have difficulty concentration - be easily distracted - or constantly in motion?
Pupil
Zone of Proximal Development
ADHD
5
33. What is the transparent part in the front of the eye?
Divergent thinkers
Equilibrium
The more accurate the result
Lens
34. What is the name for the two halves of the brain?
Psychoanalytic theory
Cerebrum
Cerebral anoxia
Sound waves
35. What is: your thoughts - beliefs - attitudes - and values
Mental health
Childhood depression
Jean Piaget
Gender roles
36. Self-aware - recognized - defined
Depo-Provera
Self-concept
Rubella
John Watson
37. The most direct measure of syntax in middle childhood is what?
The meanlinkk of utterance (how long their sentences are)
Erik Erikson
Cephalocaudal and Proximodistal
Abstinence
38. What is the variable that the experiment is trying to test?
Hurried-child
Sexually transmitted diseases
Dependent variable
It measures a child against their peers - in that moment
39. 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?
Phonemes
Laboratory observation
Closure
Nature vs. nurture
40. 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
Operant conditioning
Cones
Peer group
Egocentric behavior
41. Gilligan believed that Kholberg's theory described the male progression which she called the what?
Pia mater
Accommodation
Left hand - left eye - and simple comprehension
Morality of Justice
42. Parenting styles: respects individually - but tries to instill social values
Increase
If the mom and child have different blood types - the mom's cells can attack the baby.
Authoritative
Classical conditioning
43. What is the characteristic that: you may be more interested in a person - rather than what she is saying?
Dyscalcula
True
Selective
Osteoporosis
44. What glands affect the mood - energy level - and stress?
Adrenal glands
Behavioral
Visual cliff
Organ of corti
45. Does a somatic (body) cell have a full - or half - set of chromosomes?
Fontanels
Stage 2
Median
Full (46)
46. What is: the theory focused on 'how' of behavior; minds are a continuous flow of information about experiences - and role is to study the mind/behavior as they adapt to the environment
Old Age
Functionalism
Psychological maltreatment
Behaviorism
47. Babies are rewarded with food/attention with they say 'mama' etc - so they continue to say those words and learn new ones; what idea does this theory follow?
Operant conditioning
Homophobia
The posterior (back) fontanel: within two months of birth. The anterior (front) fontanel: by the child's 2nd birthday.
Up to 6 months of observation by doctors
48. 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
Holophrase syntax
Equilibrium
Cognitive improvement
Pons
49. Children are most likely to achieve if parents:
Operant conditioning
Social aspect of language
Obstetrician-gynecologist - family practitioner - or midwife
Set high standards - assist along the way
50. What is: attraction to the opposite sex?
Occipital lobe
Heterosexual
Epinephrine and norepinephrine
Through actions - doing what you believe is correct
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