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DSST Lifespan Developmental Psychology
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1. What is: the ability to group objects together on the basis of common features?
Abortion
Classification
Semantics
Infertility
2. The negative effects of sensory deprivation (not as much attention) are more likely to _______ w/ the length of the stage.
Sexual identity
Autonomic Nervous System
Increase
The Montessori Method
3. What is the term for low IQ and mental age of about 4 years old?
Mentally retarded
The cloth monkey
5
Short attention span
4. What is a common learning disability in reading?
Biological
Dyslexia
Negative Correlation
Down syndrome
5. What do children in early language development not understand?
Accommodation
Figurative language
Autoerotic behavior
Longitudinal Study
6. True or False: Kohlberg believed that you go through each step of moral development one @ a time and could not skip them.
Maslow
True
Increase
Absolute threshold
7. Piaget believed that the individual actively constructs knowledge about the world--what is the term for this?
Selective attention
Family therapy
Middle childhood
Cognitive theorist
8. Children that are raised on the Kibbutz will often:
Have more bland personalities and often difficult for them to create and maintain intimate relationships as they have a lack of emotional depth
1 in 14 -000
Cross-modal perception
Freud
9. What is: sexual self-stimulation or masturbation?
Elaboration
Preschooler
Autoerotic behavior
Automatic - selective - contextual - and creative
10. Theory by Bandura; the interaction of a person's personality - the environment - and the behavior.
Authoritative
Reciprocal determinism
First trimester
Creative
11. Contains the psychic content related to the primitive instincts of the body - notably sex and aggression - functioning entirely according to the pleasure-pain principle - seeking either immediate fulfillment or settling for a compromise fulfillment
Gender identity
Increase
Socialization
Id
12. Pavlovs famous classical conditioning dog experiment.
Toddler
Bell would ring - then feed the dogs - Dogs would salivate when given food - Over time dogs began to salivate simply at ring of bell
Ethics
Three percent
13. Child's realization their sex will stay the same
Gender role stereotypes
Gender conservation
Abstinence
Classical conditioning works more to explain reflexive or unconscious reactions - Operant conditioning works to explain elective actions and reactions
14. Biological theories of aging: like everything else in the world - the human body wears out
Operant conditioning
Independent variable
Wear-and-Tear Theory
Safety
15. Level 1 of Kohlberg's Theory of Moral Development includes which stages
Extinction
1 & 2
Autoerotic behavior
Strong correlation
16. What are: vibrations in the air that we receive through the ear to be processed?
Mental health
Gradually through shaping
Sound waves
In vitro fertilization
17. Age at with children start feeling a fear of the dark - which can be strong and appear suddenly
6
No correlation
Socialization
The more accurate the result
18. What is: the type of thought that has to do with factual information--trivia - vocabulary - science - history?
Cornea
Positive Correlation
Crystallized intelligence
Emotional health
19. In children babbling begins around age _____ - while in deaf infants babbling usually begins around several months later
Up to 6 months of observation by doctors
Classical conditioning works more to explain reflexive or unconscious reactions - Operant conditioning works to explain elective actions and reactions
99%
Six or seven months
20. What is the name for the two halves of the brain?
B.F. Skinner
Cerebrum
Medicated delivery
Rh positive
21. A lower number of the correlation coefficient - closer to the number zero shows a:
Correlational research
Three percent
Weak correlation
Pituitary gland
22. When does language development begin?
3 & 4
Fetal alcohol syndrome
Six months
Temporal lobe
23. Which lobe is related to voluntary muscles and intelligence?
Cerebrospinal fluid
Miscarriages or stillbirths
Mentally retarded
Frontal lobe
24. Defense mechanism: Turning a feeling into the exact opposite feeling
Cesarean birth
Rubella
Correlation coefficient
Reaction Formation
25. Those who are mentally retarded are least likely to also have WHAT condition?
Proximodistal
Cerebral palsy
Sympathetic nervous system
Stage 1
26. Believing women followed a different progression than men - she called the moral progression of the woman what?
Experimental research
Mostly developed by the time of birth
Morality of Care
Crystallized intelligence
27. John Bowlby felt that attachment held evolutionary purpose. Explain
Thalamus
The brain/the cerebral cortex
Fontanels
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
28. If a test measures what is meant to measure it is considered what?
Figurative language
Because at birth cells aren't well connected (lacking in myelin - or nerve insulation)
Valid
Hospice
29. Imitation of a past-observed behavior
Deferred imitation
Positive Correlation
Nurture
Psychological maltreatment
30. What is the name for depth perception cues made with both eyes?
Binocular cues
The meanlinkk of utterance (how long their sentences are)
Cerebrospinal fluid
Bandura
31. Categories of old age: 75-84
Middle-old
Conservation
Telegraphic speech
Attention Deficit Disorder and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
32. How do you fix the problem of mother's cells attacking the baby's?
Habituation
Injections
Cerebral anoxia
Adolescent Egocentrism
33. What is: a state of mental balance - reconciling new experiences with new understanding
Condom
Natural prepared childbirth
Gerontology
Equilibrium
34. Age at which children begin to share their toys and interact w/ one another - associative play
Super Ego
3
Cornea
Parallel play
35. What is: structures in the cerebral cortex related to memory and emotion?
Occipital lobe
Limbic system
Pia mater
Intrinsic reinforcer
36. What is the white part of the eye that protects and manages the shape of the eye?
Laboratory observation
Reaction Formation
The cloth monkey
Selera
37. What is: sheath of thin latex designed to catch sperm upon ejaculation?
Condom
Rods
Contraception
Middle ear
38. What is the characteristic that: you may be more interested in a person - rather than what she is saying?
Selective
Middle-old
Osteoporosis
Teratogens
39. What is: the study of substances which are harmful to prenatal development?
Pupil
Teratology
Teratogens
Personality
40. What section of the nervous system is responsible for the 'fight or flight' response?
Permissive
Sigmund Freud
Cerebrospinal fluid
Autonomic Nervous System
41. How is extinction best achieved?
Gene
Humanistic Theorists
Spiritual health
Gradually through shaping
42. What are the three parts of memory?
Pituitary gland
Natural prepared childbirth
Invincibility fable
Encoding the information - represnting the information - and retrieving information from memory.
43. Which protective brain layer is mostly blood vessels?
Mental health
Middle childhood
Sterilization
Pia mater
44. Which part of the ANS is the calming part of the system?
Gilligan
The more accurate the result
Parasympathetic
Mendel
45. Means that the participants must know the content of the experiment and be warned of any risk or harm
Encoding the information - represnting the information - and retrieving information from memory.
Informed consent
The cloth monkey
Conception
46. What is the chance of having a boy or girl - according to Mendel's experiments in genetics?
50%
Auditory System
Modeling
A census
47. Which stage of development is: Autonomy vs. Shame and Doubt (making their own decisions)
Gentle birth
Dialectical perspective
Stage 3
Toddler
48. What is: not being involved in a sexual relationship?
Resilient child
Spermicides
Clinical psychologist
Celibacy
49. Is there currently a cure for Alzheimer's disease?
No
Classical conditioning
Mostly developed by the time of birth
Semantics
50. Defense mechanism: hiding the feelings and not acknowledging them
Down syndrome
Ageism
Long labors or birth complications
Suppression