SUBJECTS
|
BROWSE
|
CAREER CENTER
|
POPULAR
|
JOIN
|
LOGIN
Business Skills
|
Soft Skills
|
Basic Literacy
|
Certifications
About
|
Help
|
Privacy
|
Terms
|
Email
Search
Test your basic knowledge |
DSST Lifespan Developmental Psychology
Start Test
Study First
Subjects
:
dsst
,
psychology
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
If you are not ready to take this test, you can
study here
.
Match each statement with the correct term.
Don't refresh. All questions and answers are randomly picked and ordered every time you load a test.
This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. How is extinction best achieved?
They were not scientifically performed
Gradually through shaping
Pupil
Conception
2. Level 3 of Kohlberg's Theory of Moral Development includes which stages
Genes
Dialectical perspective
Sexual orientation
5 & 6
3. What is the scientific name for the sense of smell?
Olfactory sense
It measures a child against their peers - in that moment
Biological; Behavioral; Cognitive; Humanistic; Psychoanalytical; Structuralism; Functionalism; Nature vs. Nurture
Authoritative
4. Third step in Maslow's Hierarchy of needs in which you may want to meet needs of belongings and love through relationships
Reciprocal determinism
Response extinction
Suppression
Belonging and love
5. What is: the theory based on biology; belief that behavior and personality are linked to genetics
Biological
Because at birth cells aren't well connected (lacking in myelin - or nerve insulation)
Old-old
Family situation - the world around you - lifespan - and maturity.
6. The scientific study of words and sentences
Rationalization
Dependent variable
Semantics
Autonomic Nervous System
7. How much are the eyes developed in newborns?
A will
Phenylketonuria (PKU)
Not fully developed; but can distinguish color - track movement - and bright objects.
Depo-Provera
8. Stages of friendship: intimate
1) Gather info - 2) Generate hypothesis - 3) Test hypothesis - 4) Revise
Hurried-child
Ethics
9-15
9. When one variable increases while another variable decreases. We call this a what?
Endocrine system
Negative Correlation
Parallel play
Olfactory epithelium
10. What does STDs stand for - including AIDS and herpes?
Mentally retarded
Sexually transmitted diseases
Carl Rogers
Adolescent
11. Where nursing care is given meant to maximize the quality of life for someone who is dying
Negative Correlation
Hospice
23 pairs
Family practitioner
12. Theory by Bandura; the interaction of a person's personality - the environment - and the behavior.
The penis doesn't grow and breasts may develop.
Reciprocal determinism
Timbre
Parallel play
13. A type of conditioning in which a person associates an action with a consequence
None!!
Morality of Justice
Operant Conditioning
Positive reinforcer
14. Self-aware - recognized - defined
Family situation - the world around you - lifespan - and maturity.
Double blind
Wilhelm Wundt
Self-concept
15. What are the 8 psychological approaches?
None!!
Id
Biological; Behavioral; Cognitive; Humanistic; Psychoanalytical; Structuralism; Functionalism; Nature vs. Nurture
Rods
16. What is the name for minimum amount of something we can detect or sense?
Self-actualization - Esteem needs - Belonging and love - Safety - Physical needs
Assimilation
Creative
Absolute threshold
17. What are: chemicals designed to kill sperm?
Subjects may be dishonest w/ their answers
Crystallized intelligence
Schema
Spermicides
18. Something used to make a behavior less likely to occur - can be positive or negative
Pituitary gland
Assimilation
Punishment
Response extinction
19. 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?
Stage 1
Cross-modal perception
3-7
Obstetrician-gynecologist - family practitioner - or midwife
20. Theory that every function in the child's cultural development appears twice: first between people - then inside the child.
Conception
Carl Rogers
Middle ear
Social development or social cognition
21. What side of the N/N debate means that all children are first good; believe it is the way they are brought up that affects personality and actions?
Gender role stereotypes
Nurture
Fetal tobacco syndrome
Critical period
22. All senses report to the thalamus except for one--which?
Self-actualization - Esteem needs - Belonging and love - Safety - Physical needs
Extrinsic reinforcer
Smell
Spiritual health
23. Fourth stage in the Kubler-Ross's Stages of Dying: 'There's nothing I can do about this'
On chromosomes
Pituitary gland
Kohlberg
Preparatory Depression
24. What is the very critical period of the first 3 months in the womb?
Norplant
Three percent
Prenatal development
Carl Rogers
25. When a participant fills out a survey themselves about themselves
Correlational research
Self-report data
Toxic shock syndrome
Frontal lobe
26. How is ADHD diagnosed?
Cross-modal perception
Up to 6 months of observation by doctors
Frequency
Breast-feeding
27. How does the pupil work?
Assimilation
Opens and closes to let the correct amount of light in
Family practitioner
Rite of Passage
28. Defense mechanism: you deny your feelings and come up with ways to justify your behavior
Fetal Alcohol Syndrome
...
Rationalization
Appearance - pulse - grimace (reflex) - activity - and respiration
29. What is: growth from the head downward (head develops before rest of the body)?
Independent variable
Phenylketonuria (PKU)
Cephalocaudal
School-age Child
30. What does the right half of the brain control?
Left hand - left eye - and simple comprehension
Sound waves
Gender
Strong correlation
31. What is the transparent part in the front of the eye?
Socialization
Short attention span
Lens
Skin appearance - 'age spots' - hair
32. Who believed that the unconscious motivates our actions - through the id - ego - and superego?
Freud
Mendel
Attention Deficit Disorder and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
They were not scientifically performed
33. Extension of 'actions speak louder than words' in behavior; follow others' examples despite their words.
Gender conservation
Social learning theory
Weak correlation
Structuralism
34. Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs consists of which steps?
Amplitude
Crystallized intelligence
Self-actualization - Esteem needs - Belonging and love - Safety - Physical needs
Cesarean birth
35. The best way to teach children values is?
Six or seven months
Assimilation
Through actions - doing what you believe is correct
Obstetrician-gynecologist - family practitioner - or midwife
36. What are the five areas of Apgar Rating - with scores of 0-2 in each?
Rite of Passage
Visual cliff
Placebo effect
Appearance - pulse - grimace (reflex) - activity - and respiration
37. What are the two directions of growth in the embryo?
Sympathetic - parasympathetic - and enteric
Cephalocaudal and Proximodistal
Sweet - bitter - salty - sour
Base of the skull; size of a pea
38. What are: the principles and standards of behavior - including morals; right/wrong and having one's actions correlate with their beliefs
Ethics
Alzheimer's Disease
Norplant
Six or seven months
39. What is the medical means to terminate a pregnancy?
Abortion
Best friend
Cochlea
Autoimmune Theory
40. Stage in which whether you will be punished or not determines what is moral or not - also called the punishment and obiedience phase
Old-old
Gentle birth
Stage 1
Subject
41. What is: growth from the center (spine) outward - where vital organs form before the extremities?
Raymond Cattell
Alfred Binet
As soon as the bell was rung
Proximodistal
42. Piaget believed that the individual actively constructs knowledge about the world--what is the term for this?
Sexually transmitted diseases
Automatic
Cognitive theorist
Mental health
43. Who created structuralism?
Convergent thinking
Wilhelm Wundt
Infertility
All drugs - including over the counter - aspirin - coffee
44. 1 + 5 + 6. What is the mean?
No
4
Have more bland personalities and often difficult for them to create and maintain intimate relationships as they have a lack of emotional depth
Miscarriages or stillbirths
45. What is: dynamic blend of our experiences - heredity - environment - etc. which determines how we react to problems/issues?
Morphemes
Lewis Terman
Dizygotic twins
Personality
46. What is the simple type of learning for getting used to something?
Habituation
Bias
Gender conservation
Sudden Infant Death Syndrome
47. Who did the experiment with baby monkeys about affection and love?
Sigmund Freud
Fit in
If the mom and child have different blood types - the mom's cells can attack the baby.
Harry Harlow
48. What kind of problem can it cause when a husband and wife have different blood types?
Warning
: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in
/var/www/html/basicversity.com/show_quiz.php
on line
183
49. 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.
Belonging and love
Virginia Apgar - or Apgar Rating
Loudness
Nature vs. nurture
50. What is: the ability to group objects together on the basis of common features?
Lens
Skin appearance - 'age spots' - hair
Classification
A will