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DSST Lifespan Developmental Psychology
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1. What is: your thoughts about what gives life purpose--the meaning of life - religion
Allow the skull's plates of bone to shift or flex - making childbirth easier.
Regression
Spiritual health
Correlation Research
2. What is: small device to block access to the uterus; left in place with spermicide for 6-8 hours - in order to kill any remaining sperm?
Sympathetic nervous system
None!!
Diaphragm
Gender
3. What is caused by one extra chromosome in the number 21?
Down syndrome
Cross Sectional Study
Correlational research
Alzheimer's Disease
4. A type of conditioning in which a person associates an action with a consequence
Automatic
The penis doesn't grow and breasts may develop.
Clinical psychologist
Operant Conditioning
5. What is: growth from the center (spine) outward - where vital organs form before the extremities?
Norplant
Proximodistal
Denial
9-15
6. When can a person's short term memory become incapacitated?
Psychoanalytical
Sampling
Wear-and-Tear Theory
As they age
7. What are the two different classifications of intelligence?
Three percent
Median
It measures a child against their peers - in that moment
Fluid intelligence and crystal intelligence
8. Level 3 of Kohlberg's Theory of Moral Development includes which stages
5 & 6
Morality of Care
Irritability - social responsiveness - and activity level
Biological
9. What is the chance of having a boy or girl - according to Mendel's experiments in genetics?
Middle ear
Cross Sectional Study
Lewis Terman
50%
10. Piaget believed that the individual actively constructs knowledge about the world--what is the term for this?
Cognitive theorist
Accommodation
Fluid intelligence
Preoperational stage (ages 3-6)
11. What is: attraction to both sexes?
Structuralism
Pavlov; classical conditioning
Bisexual
Sympathetic - parasympathetic - and enteric
12. What is: a person's attraction to other people?
Kohlberg
Sexual orientation
Resilient child
Lewis Terman
13. Self-aware - recognized - defined
Holophrase syntax
Cross Sectional Study
Creative
Self-concept
14. Where are genes carried?
On chromosomes
Down syndrome
Explicit role instruction
Perception
15. What are: general term for the reproductive organs in a male or female?
Base of the skull; size of a pea
Gonads
Psychological maltreatment
Authoritarian
16. What is the clear membrane in front of the eye that protects it?
Appearance - pulse - grimace (reflex) - activity - and respiration
Cornea
Kubler-Ross's Stages of Dying
Miscarriages or stillbirths
17. What is the most popular method for giving birth?
Medicated delivery
Contraception
Teratogens
Bell would ring - then feed the dogs - Dogs would salivate when given food - Over time dogs began to salivate simply at ring of bell
18. What is: the theory centered on behavior; see person as blank slate upon which impressions of experiences can be recorded.
Behavioral
Subject
Excitement - plateau - orgasm - and resolution phases
The Montessori Method
19. What is the part of the ear that includes the oval window - cochlea - and organ of Corti?
Natural observation
Inner ear
Operant Conditioning
Stage 2
20. When people w/in an experiment are assigned to a group randomly
6
Free morpheme
Random assignment
Constant
21. What is: a period in a child's development in which he/she is capable of understanding some things but not others
Psychiatrist
Papillae
Stage
Sigmund Freud
22. What is: the theory that all people are inherently good and motivated to achieve their full potential
Humanistic
Contextual
Syphillis and rubella
Six months
23. Is there currently a cure for Alzheimer's disease?
Cesarean birth
Wilhelm Wundt
No
Erik Erikson
24. Age at which children begin to share their toys and interact w/ one another - associative play
The meanlinkk of utterance (how long their sentences are)
3
4-9
Classical conditioning
25. Which thought process is a creative process?
2
Stage 3
Emotional neglect
Divergent thinking
26. What is: growth from the head downward (head develops before rest of the body)?
Alfred Binet
Biological
Subjects may be dishonest w/ their answers
Cephalocaudal
27. What attention disorders also interfere with the learning process?
Fetal alcohol syndrome
Attention Deficit Disorder and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
Convergent thinking
In vitro fertilization
28. How do you fix the problem of mother's cells attacking the baby's?
Autoerotic behavior
Cochlea
Injections
Fit in
29. What thought process characterizes creative - gifted - or advanced children?
Divergent thinkers
Gender conservation
Longitudinal fissure
Babbling
30. Did a longitudinal study that showed that smart kids are happy adults
Unoccupied behavior - onlooker - solitary independent (plays alone) - parallel play (plays around but not w/ others) - associative - cooperative play
Median
No correlation
Lewis Terman
31. When do the two fontanels harden?
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32. Categories of old age: 75-84
3-7
Middle-old
Teratogens
Nature
33. 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?
Infants were placed on a solid - opaque surface - and the mothers were placed at the end of the table - where the opaque ended and glass begun. The infants didn't want to cross the glass because they could see the distance between themselves and the
Operant conditioning
90%
Free morpheme
34. What are the four components of psychosocial health?
Gradually through shaping
Spiritual - emotional - mental - and social health
Appearance - pulse - grimace (reflex) - activity - and respiration
Conservation
35. In the Harlow experiment: between the wire monkey+bottle - and cloth monkey+no bottle - which fake mother did the babies prefer?
Monozygotic twins
Francis Bacon--16th century
Hippocampus
The cloth monkey
36. What kind of childbirth did Dr. Grantly Dick Read start teaching?
Pavlov; classical conditioning
Occipital lobe
Natural prepared childbirth
Gonads
37. A child that is always in a hurry
Hurried-child
Homosexual
Cerebral palsy
Classical conditioning
38. The final stage of Maslow's Hierarchy of needs. A stage you may never actually meet.
The Montessori Method
Mentally retarded
Acceptance
Self-actualization
39. Does a somatic (body) cell have a full - or half - set of chromosomes?
Full (46)
Family practitioner
Gestures
Mendel
40. What two other chemicals do the adrenal glands secrete?
Epinephrine and norepinephrine
Hypokinetic diseases
Selective attention
Sudden Infant Death Syndrome
41. The awareness of being a male or female
Authoritarian
Create and release chemicals into the blood
Three percent
Gender identity
42. Defense mechanism in which complete rejection of the feeling or situation
The Montessori Method
Five
Strong correlation
Denial
43. Removing something unpleasant from a situation - to make a behavior more likely
Negative reinforcer
Social learning theory
Physical needs
Gene
44. 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
6-12
Hypokinetic diseases
Cornea and lens
The cerebrum
45. What disorder causes a person to have difficulty concentration - be easily distracted - or constantly in motion?
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
Visual cliff
ADHD
...
46. Who made the first IQ test?
Alfred Binet
6
Operant conditioning
Occipital - temporal - frontal - and parietal.
47. In a child - can be expressed as 'nobody likes me'
Rite of Passage
Childhood depression
Object permanence
Recall
48. Defense mechanism: Turning a feeling into the exact opposite feeling
Reaction Formation
Papillae
Gender role stereotypes
Experimental group and control group
49. 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
Id
Independent variable
Lewis Terman
Noise
50. What is the transparent part in the front of the eye?
Behavioral
Positive reinforcer
Fetal death
Lens