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DSST Lifespan Developmental Psychology
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1. Something pleasant used to make a behavior more likely
Ageism
Positive reinforcer
Self-concept
Maslow
2. Removing something unpleasant from a situation - to make a behavior more likely
All drugs - including over the counter - aspirin - coffee
Zygote
Negative reinforcer
Peer group
3. Usually has a doctoral degree in psychology plus an internship; cannot prescribe medicine.
Holophrase syntax
Hypokinetic diseases
Clinical psychologist
Middle childhood
4. In children babbling begins around age _____ - while in deaf infants babbling usually begins around several months later
Six or seven months
Excitement - plateau - orgasm - and resolution phases
Response extinction
Quantitative
5. A correlation coefficient of zero
Absolute threshold
No correlation
Olfactory epithelium
Cooing
6. A morpheme that must be w/ a word
Positive Correlation
Short attention span
Sublimation
Bound morpheme
7. The best way to teach children values is?
Through actions - doing what you believe is correct
Commissures
Down syndrome
Social development or social cognition
8. What is: where the lens changes its curves to help the eye focus?
Gilligan
Accommodation
Critical period
True
9. What is the middle number in a set of data called?
Emotional health
Family situation - the world around you - lifespan - and maturity.
Median
Full (46)
10. Why does a gamete have a half set of chromosomes?
Alfred Binet
You need two - one from each parent - to conceive.
Cognitive theorist
Accommodation
11. What is the name for the two halves of the brain?
Old Age
Selective attention
Cerebrum
Strong correlation
12. 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?
Avoid punishment
Operant conditioning
Displacement
Syphillis and rubella
13. People who are working that experience discrimination because of their age - whether too young or too old are victims of what?
Projection
Ageism
Closure
Thalamus
14. Age at with children start feeling a fear of the dark - which can be strong and appear suddenly
6
Survey
Automatic
Divergent thinking
15. Something used to make a behavior less likely to occur - can be positive or negative
Celibacy
50%
Kleinfelter Syndrome; male
Punishment
16. What is: term for how much someone values and respects themselves?
Egocentrism
Cognitive improvement
Self-esteem
Bargaining
17. Children that are raised on the Kibbutz are used to study the effects of what?
Multiple caretakers
Hour of love
Natural prepared childbirth
Experimental group and control group
18. Which stage of development is: Intimacy vs. Isolation? (emotional ties with others)
Emotional health
Increase
Young Adult
Correlational research
19. How much alcohol is the safe amount to consume during pregnancy?
None!!
Assimilation
Habituation
The cloth monkey
20. Visible signs of aging include:
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21. Experiment when none of the doctors - researchers - and participants know who is getting the real drug
Hurried-child
Double blind
Dyslexia
Longitudinal fissure
22. Gifted children often hide gifts to ______.
Mental age/Chronological age - x 100
Cerebrum
Fit in
Preparatory Depression
23. Why are IQ scores only accurate for short periods of time?
It measures a child against their peers - in that moment
Noise
Gene
Auditory System
24. What is: the study of substances which are harmful to prenatal development?
Chomsky
More Knowledgeable Other (MKO)
Teratology
Occipital - temporal - frontal - and parietal.
25. When do children develop object permanence?
Around age two
Classical conditioning
Independent variable
Self-actualization
26. What is: the theory focused on 'how' of behavior; minds are a continuous flow of information about experiences - and role is to study the mind/behavior as they adapt to the environment
They can be coached into learning a type of test--do better or worse - etc.
Functionalism
Median
Injections
27. Which stage of development is: Identity vs. Role Confusion? (who am I)
Natural observation
Adolescent
Autism
Nurture
28. Who made the first IQ test?
Correlation coefficient
Alfred Binet
Preconventional - conventional - postconventional
Mendel
29. What is the most extreme outcome of a woman drinking during her pregnancy?
Fetal death
Sterilization
Teratology
Dyslexia
30. What is: the theory that all people are inherently good and motivated to achieve their full potential
Humanistic
Kohlberg
Ethics
Gilligan
31. Where are genes carried?
Sterilization
On chromosomes
Three
Six or seven months
32. When people are followed and studied over a long period of time and checked up on at certain points
Extinction
Rubella
Longitudinal Study
Denial
33. What attention disorders also interfere with the learning process?
Attention Deficit Disorder and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
Autoimmune Theory
The brain
Naturalistic observation
34. A child that bounces back from a difficult situation
Resilient child
Mental age/Chronological age - x 100
Mainstreaming
The cerebrum
35. The smallest unit of a word which has meaning - may be bound or free
Morphemes
6-12
Longitudinal Study
Rh positive
36. All senses report to the thalamus except for one--which?
Smell
Hypokinetic diseases
William James
Multiple caretakers
37. Who taught women breathing procedures to get through childbirth - including panting?
Physical needs
Ferdinand Lamaze
Carl Rogers
Extrinsic reinforcer
38. What syndrome is characterized by small stature - poor coordination - hyperactive - learning disabilities - mental retardation - or large head?
Egocentric behavior
Lewis Terman
Fetal Alcohol Syndrome
Telegraphic speech
39. Which receptor is more sensitive to light - but is not used to view color?
Epinephrine and norepinephrine
Encoding the information - represnting the information - and retrieving information from memory.
Rods
Resilient child
40. What is: the amount of pressure produced by a sound wave - measured in decibels?
Amplitude
The brain/the cerebral cortex
Alzheimer's Disease
Cornea and lens
41. What controls breathing and heart rate?
Correlation coefficient
Endocrine system
6-12
Pons
42. What is the rating system to judge a baby's functionality when first born?
Mental age/Chronological age - x 100
6
Mean
Virginia Apgar - or Apgar Rating
43. What is a sometimes-fatal disease occuring from the excessive use of tampons - or leaving a diaphragm in - for longer than prescribed time?
Toxic shock syndrome
All drugs - including over the counter - aspirin - coffee
Anger (Emotion)
Toddler
44. A number between +1 and -1 that measures the strength between two variables
Dura mater
Correlation coefficient
Homophobia
Baby Albert
45. What is: the theory centered on behavior; see person as blank slate upon which impressions of experiences can be recorded.
Critical period
Strong correlation
Behavioral
Excitement - plateau - orgasm - and resolution phases
46. What is: growth from the center (spine) outward - where vital organs form before the extremities?
Mean
Fetal alcohol syndrome
Longitudinal Study
Proximodistal
47. What is the chance of a baby having PKU?
Infertility
Social health
1 in 14 -000
As they age
48. Jean Piaget extensively used which research method to study children?
Psychological maltreatment
Allow the skull's plates of bone to shift or flex - making childbirth easier.
Organ of corti
Natural observation
49. What is: the method to prevent an egg and sperm from being able to access each other?
Frequency
4
A will
Contraception
50. What is the medical term for birth of a dead baby?
Stillbirth
Morality of Care
Gene
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
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