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DSST Lifespan Developmental Psychology
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1. How many different theories of language development are there?
Three
Retina
Convergent thinking
Hospice
2. What are: general term for the reproductive organs in a male or female?
Rh positive
Have more bland personalities and often difficult for them to create and maintain intimate relationships as they have a lack of emotional depth
Gonads
The meanlinkk of utterance (how long their sentences are)
3. The larger the sample:
Egocentric behavior
50%
The more accurate the result
Lens
4. Does a somatic (body) cell have a full - or half - set of chromosomes?
Full (46)
Genetic Mutation
Family practitioner
Monocular cues
5. What is: the elated feeling adolescents have - that they are immune to risks - mortality and probability; false sense of security thinking they will never fall or get caught.
John Bowlby's Attachment Theory
Cut in half
Invincibility fable
Cornea
6. First stage in the Kubler-Ross's Stages of Dying: 'This could never happen to me. This must be a mistake'
Denial (Shock)
Timbre
Gestalt psychology
Dependent variable
7. What is the term for lack of responsiveness to other people?
The cloth monkey
Autism
Wilhelm Wundt
Infant
8. When do the two fontanels harden?
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9. A lower number of the correlation coefficient - closer to the number zero shows a:
Retina
Set high standards - assist along the way
Weak correlation
Denial (Shock)
10. What is the name of the scientist known as the father of genetics and inheritance?
Six or seven months
Mendel
Celibacy
Authoritative
11. Self-aware - recognized - defined
Self-concept
Id - Ego - Super Ego
6
Erogenous zones
12. Who developed the theory of social development?
Stage
A will
Vygotsky
No
13. Recent research supports that children learn from listening to their parents talk to them in 'baby talk'; which aspect of language is this?
The posterior (back) fontanel: within two months of birth. The anterior (front) fontanel: by the child's 2nd birthday.
Mental age/Chronological age - x 100
Social aspect of language
Classical conditioning
14. What is: a person's attraction to other people?
Syphillis and rubella
Cellular Theory
Echolalia
Sexual orientation
15. Stage in which you see the right action as what satisfies your personal needs; a person becomes aware of two different viewpoints
Dura mater
Sigmund Freud
Stage 2
Stillbirth
16. Pavlovs famous classical conditioning dog experiment.
Bell would ring - then feed the dogs - Dogs would salivate when given food - Over time dogs began to salivate simply at ring of bell
Classical conditioning works more to explain reflexive or unconscious reactions - Operant conditioning works to explain elective actions and reactions
The Montessori Method
1 & 2
17. What is the enzyme deficiency that can cause mental retardation without treatment?
Phenylketonuria (PKU)
Projection
Autonomic Nervous System
1) Gather info - 2) Generate hypothesis - 3) Test hypothesis - 4) Revise
18. What is the method to find the amount that one variable changes in relation to another?
Correlational research
Gestalt psychology
Stage 5
Independent variable
19. True or False: Kohlberg believed that you go through each step of moral development one @ a time and could not skip them.
Best friend
Dura mater
True
Schema
20. What is caused by one extra chromosome in the number 21?
Displacement
Down syndrome
Gerontology
Wilhelm Wundt
21. How many PAIRS of chromosomes do body cells have?
Amplitude
23 pairs
Free morpheme
Stimulus generalization
22. Four steps of the scientific method include:
Closure
Rods
Gene
1) Gather info - 2) Generate hypothesis - 3) Test hypothesis - 4) Revise
23. What is: generalizations about each gender - such as that men are aggressive and logical - and women are nurturing and emotional
...
In vitro fertilization
Gender role stereotypes
A will
24. Categories of old age: 85+
Self-report data
Old-old
Selective
Because at birth cells aren't well connected (lacking in myelin - or nerve insulation)
25. Who argued that if psychology was a true science - then psychologists should only study what they could see and measure (behaviorist theory)?
Self-concept
Kleinfelter Syndrome; male
John Watson
Midwife
26. Theory by Bandura; the interaction of a person's personality - the environment - and the behavior.
If the mom and child have different blood types - the mom's cells can attack the baby.
Phonemes
Epinephrine and norepinephrine
Reciprocal determinism
27. When a participant fills out a survey themselves about themselves
Self-report data
Mental age/Chronological age - x 100
Skin appearance - 'age spots' - hair
Sympathetic nervous system
28. A reinforcer that is physical (tangible) or from the environment - like payment for work - or a prize
Gene
Timbre
Extrinsic reinforcer
Safety
29. Defense mechanism: Turning a feeling into the exact opposite feeling
Divergent thinkers
Hour of love
A census
Reaction Formation
30. What is: the way the brain organizes and gives meaning to information provided by the senses?
Perception
Wilhelm Wundt
Organ of corti
Negative Correlation
31. What do children in early language development not understand?
The posterior (back) fontanel: within two months of birth. The anterior (front) fontanel: by the child's 2nd birthday.
Figurative language
Gender roles
Wilhelm Wundt
32. What is the main difference between classical and operant conditioning?
Sterilization
Opens and closes to let the correct amount of light in
Erik Erikson
Classical conditioning works more to explain reflexive or unconscious reactions - Operant conditioning works to explain elective actions and reactions
33. Which receptor is used for color vision?
Regression
Jean Piaget
Gestures
Cones
34. What are the two parts responsible for bending light and focusing it in the back of the eye?
Rationalization
Cornea and lens
Daydreaming
Maslow
35. According to both Kohlberg and Piaget - the most immature reason to do something is to:
Spiritual health
Fontanels
Avoid punishment
Cerebral palsy
36. What is: a progesterone shot given every three months?
Closure
Dyslexia
Depo-Provera
Holophrase syntax
37. Gilligan believed that Kholberg's theory described the male progression which she called the what?
Morality of Justice
Attention Deficit Disorder and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
Holophrase syntax
6
38. Biological theories of aging: as our bodies age - our immune systems become less effective at fighting disease - stress - etc.
The Premack Principle
The cloth monkey
Ageism
Autoimmune Theory
39. What is the variable that the experimenter controls?
Teratology
Object permanence
Placebo effect
Independent variable
40. What is: the understanding of more advanced classification; that some sets are also sub-sets of a larger class?
Sympathetic nervous system
Pavlov; classical conditioning
Parallel play
Class inclusion
41. What most-extreme fate does syphillis often cause in infants?
Baby Albert
Miscarriages or stillbirths
Fit in
Sweet - bitter - salty - sour
42. Which lobe is related to hearing?
6-12
1 in 14 -000
Temporal lobe
Stillbirth
43. What is: another form of consciousness involving very little effort; dreaming while awake or letting the mind wander?
Daydreaming
The more accurate the result
Wilhelm Wundt
Esteem needs
44. The variable in which the researcher has direct control over
Reaction Formation
Independent variable
6
Up to 6 months of observation by doctors
45. The process of unassociating the condition with the response
On chromosomes
Occipital - temporal - frontal - and parietal.
Stage 4
Extinction
46. What is: the part of the ear inside the cochlea; contains sensors that change energy into impulses to be decoded by the brain?
Family situation - the world around you - lifespan - and maturity.
Belonging and love
Biological; Behavioral; Cognitive; Humanistic; Psychoanalytical; Structuralism; Functionalism; Nature vs. Nurture
Organ of corti
47. Whatmakes a person able to see objects are they are - in 3 dimensions?
Sublimation
Dependent variable
Slowed growth - body/face malfunctions - nervous system disorders - mental retardation.
Depth perception
48. What are: the harmful substances to a developing fetus?
Midwife
Teratogens
Subjects may be dishonest w/ their answers
Psychoanalytical
49. Who created structuralism?
Wilhelm Wundt
Survey
Autism
Psychological maltreatment
50. Theory that language abilities devlop innately; there must be some mechanism in the brain which aids in language acquisition; who came up with this theory?
Noise
Chomsky
Habituation
You need two - one from each parent - to conceive.