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DSST Lifespan Developmental Psychology
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1. In a kibbutz - the real parents of children may see them for one hour a day - a time referred to as the __________.
Create and release chemicals into the blood
Childhood depression
Hour of love
Increase
2. What is: the theory centered on behavior; see person as blank slate upon which impressions of experiences can be recorded.
Independent variable
Behavioral
Phenylketonuria (PKU)
Babbling
3. People who are working that experience discrimination because of their age - whether too young or too old are victims of what?
Natural prepared childbirth
Ageism
Id
Gender conservation
4. Usually has a doctoral degree in psychology plus an internship; cannot prescribe medicine.
Clinical psychologist
Endocrine system
Classical conditioning works more to explain reflexive or unconscious reactions - Operant conditioning works to explain elective actions and reactions
Toxic shock syndrome
5. What is: generalizations about each gender - such as that men are aggressive and logical - and women are nurturing and emotional
Wilhelm Wundt
99%
Sublimation
Gender role stereotypes
6. What are the four characteristics of perception?
Dyscalcula
Sigmund Freud
Automatic - selective - contextual - and creative
Socialization
7. What do endocrine glands do?
Autoimmune Theory
Norplant
Sigmund Freud
Create and release chemicals into the blood
8. What is the variable that the experimenter controls?
Sympathetic - parasympathetic - and enteric
Independent variable
Rods
Short attention span
9. What is the most popular method for giving birth?
Erik Erikson
Automatic
Lewis Terman
Medicated delivery
10. What do children in early language development not understand?
Women - men
Miscarriages or stillbirths
Half (23)
Figurative language
11. What is a disease also called German measles?
Sampling
Rubella
Nature
The infant wants to be in proximity of the person who cares for them as a form of self-preservation. If a child feels that their caregiver is nearby and attentive - they feel confident to explore their surroundings. If not - they feel anxious and ove
12. Individual sounds w/ in a word
Phonemes
Classical conditioning
Zone of Proximal Development
Response extinction
13. What is the name for the bundles of axons - used to communicate between the two halves of brain?
Commissures
Informed consent
Contextual
Creative
14. What is the opening of the iris - which looks black?
Sexual identity
Bell would ring - then feed the dogs - Dogs would salivate when given food - Over time dogs began to salivate simply at ring of bell
Heterosexual
Pupil
15. What is: the number of full wavelengths that pass through a point in a given amount of time
Frequency
The penis doesn't grow and breasts may develop.
Sound waves
Psychiatrist
16. What is the name for the 'crack' in the middle of the brain halves?
Alfred Binet
Multiple caretakers
Longitudinal fissure
Self-report data
17. First development of language; pre-speech
Cooing
Reciprocal determinism
Heterosexual
Humanistic Theorists
18. First step in Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs such as food water and shelter
Physical needs
Celibacy
Qualitative
Clinical psychologist
19. What are: the principles and standards of behavior - including morals; right/wrong and having one's actions correlate with their beliefs
Echolalia
Ethics
6
Adolescent
20. What is: not being involved in a sexual relationship?
Base of the skull; size of a pea
Authoritative
Celibacy
Natural prepared childbirth
21. What are the two directions of growth in the embryo?
Three percent
Parallel play
Cephalocaudal and Proximodistal
Middle childhood
22. Sigmund Freud's analysis of human personality and subconscious drives features three main components including:
Super Ego
Id - Ego - Super Ego
Negative Correlation
Cesarean birth
23. According to both Kohlberg and Piaget - the most immature reason to do something is to:
Bargaining
Id
Perception
Avoid punishment
24. A higher number of the correlation coefficient closer to the number one shows a:
Childhood depression
Strong correlation
Sublimation
Mostly developed by the time of birth
25. Which stage of development is: Autonomy vs. Shame and Doubt (making their own decisions)
6
Fetal alcohol syndrome
Around age two
Toddler
26. What is the medical means to terminate a pregnancy?
Abortion
Pia mater
Mode
Cerebral palsy
27. What does the left half of the brain control?
The right hand - right eye - and speech
Kibbutz
Family situation - the world around you - lifespan - and maturity.
Loudness
28. Which part of the ANS is the arousing part of the system?
Sympathetic nervous system
Temporal lobe
Babbling
Id - Ego - Super Ego
29. What is: another form of consciousness involving very little effort; dreaming while awake or letting the mind wander?
Daydreaming
Denial (Shock)
1 & 2
The cloth monkey
30. Gilligan believed that Kholberg's theory described the male progression which she called the what?
Three percent
Obstetrician-gynecologist
1) Gather info - 2) Generate hypothesis - 3) Test hypothesis - 4) Revise
Morality of Justice
31. 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
Phonemes
Up to 6 months of observation by doctors
Norplant
32. Second development of language - still pre-speech; repetition of meaningful sounds
Babbling
Occipital lobe
Dizygotic twins
B.F. Skinner
33. What are the three different areas of the Autonomic Nervous System?
Equilibrium
Sympathetic - parasympathetic - and enteric
Negative reinforcer
Self-actualization - Esteem needs - Belonging and love - Safety - Physical needs
34. Stages of friendship: one way assistance
4-9
Constant
Fetal death
Adolescent
35. What are the four stages of sexual response?
Psychoanalytical
Excitement - plateau - orgasm - and resolution phases
Schema
IUD
36. What percentage of children are affected by hyperactivity?
Absolute threshold
Three percent
It measures a child against their peers - in that moment
Morality of Justice
37. What do doctors agree is the best way to feed babies?
Preconventional - conventional - postconventional
Organ of corti
Automatic - selective - contextual - and creative
Breast-feeding
38. Time at which most children begin to speak actual words
4-9
Psychometrics
Epinephrine and norepinephrine
10-14 months
39. Parenting styles: 'because I say so'--more prevalent in lower-class families
The brain stem
Authoritarian
If the mom and child have different blood types - the mom's cells can attack the baby.
Double blind
40. The integrator between the outer and inner worlds - as well as the id and the superego. Gives continuity and consistency to behavior by providing a personal point of reference - which relates to the events of the past and actions of the present and o
Ego
99%
Breast-feeding
Thalamus
41. What is: the period of sexual maturation?
Teratology
Cephalocaudal and Proximodistal
Puberty
Fetal death
42. Whatmakes a person able to see objects are they are - in 3 dimensions?
The cerebrum
Depth perception
Pitch
Fontanels
43. What is: the difference made to one's mind by the process of assimilation?
Negative reinforcer
Kleinfelter Syndrome; male
Closure
Accommodation
44. Which receptor is used for color vision?
Cones
4-9
Breast-feeding
Depo-Provera
45. What is the drug to cause an abortion in the first 9 weeks of pregnancy?
RU-486
Dependent variable
Injections
Personality
46. What is: the process by which a society identifies its expectations?
Intestate
No
Self-actualization
Socialization
47. Experiment when none of the doctors - researchers - and participants know who is getting the real drug
Old Age
Double blind
Stage 2
Mental health
48. Dying w/o a will
Appearance - pulse - grimace (reflex) - activity - and respiration
Super Ego
Absolute threshold
Intestate
49. Where a group of people live together and the children of all the people are raised by one or two people
Esteem needs
The Premack Principle
Punishment
Kibbutz
50. After how many cigarettes will the fetus definitely have problems--with a 50% greater risk of childhood cancer?
Crystallized intelligence
If the mom and child have different blood types - the mom's cells can attack the baby.
Five
Six months