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DSST Lifespan Developmental Psychology
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1. A reinforcer that is physical (tangible) or from the environment - like payment for work - or a prize
Three percent
Lewis Terman
Extrinsic reinforcer
Pitch
2. Which stage of development is: Ego Integrity vs. Despair? (what they have done with their life)
Bandura
Drugs - diseases (like HIV - rubella) - and pollutants (mercury - radiation - etc)
Old Age
50%
3. What is the part of the ear that includes the pinna and external auditory canal?
Dialectical perspective
Outer ear
Monozygotic twins
Acceptance
4. What is the chance of a baby having PKU?
Limbic system
Habituation
Authoritarian
1 in 14 -000
5. Where are genes carried?
On chromosomes
Rite of Passage
Attention Deficit Disorder and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
Biological
6. Child's realization their sex will stay the same
Ethics
Strong correlation
Gender conservation
Harry Harlow
7. In children babbling begins around age _____ - while in deaf infants babbling usually begins around several months later
On chromosomes
Accommodation
Six or seven months
None!!
8. What coordinates all movements and muscles?
Contraception
Classical conditioning works more to explain reflexive or unconscious reactions - Operant conditioning works to explain elective actions and reactions
Cerebellum
Clinical psychologist
9. What are: general term for the reproductive organs in a male or female?
Gonads
Limbic system
Natural observation
Clinical psychologist
10. What is: another form of consciousness involving very little effort; dreaming while awake or letting the mind wander?
Daydreaming
Harry Harlow
Three percent
Hurried-child
11. 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.
Holophrase syntax
Condom
Object permanence
Invincibility fable
12. What are the four areas of taste that taste-buds recognize?
Mental health
Visual cliff
Sweet - bitter - salty - sour
Celibacy
13. When do children develop object permanence?
Middle ear
Dyslexia
Breast-feeding
Around age two
14. Anything which makes a behavior more likely to occur
Reinforcer
Stage 3
Dialectical perspective
Harry Harlow
15. Failure to thrive is caused by:
Displacement
Emotional neglect
Phonemes
Absolute threshold
16. Who first coined self-efficacy?
Social health
Fetal death
Bandura
Displacement
17. Cultural bias not generally known across all subcultures
Subjects may be dishonest w/ their answers
Cut in half
Gentle birth
Psychometrics
18. What is the thought process that considers an idea or belief (thesis) and acknowledges the idea's opposite (antithesis)?
Half (23)
Bound morpheme
Cochlea
Dialectical perspective
19. What is: when the mother consumes alcohol while her babies are in the womb?
Constant
Critical period
Fetal alcohol syndrome
Self-concept
20. How much is hearing developed in neonates?
Mostly developed by the time of birth
Gene
Down syndrome
Survey
21. A communication style in which single words are used to communicate - typical of toddlers learning to speak - for example 'give' or 'mama'. The meaning is still understood even though complete sentences are not used
Biological
Operant Conditioning
Acceptance
Holophrase syntax
22. All senses report to the thalamus except for one--which?
Smell
Conception
Erogenous zones
Injections
23. What is: generalizations about each gender - such as that men are aggressive and logical - and women are nurturing and emotional
Mental age/Chronological age - x 100
5
Cross Sectional Study
Gender role stereotypes
24. Extension of 'actions speak louder than words' in behavior; follow others' examples despite their words.
Pia mater
More Knowledgeable Other (MKO)
Syphillis and rubella
Social learning theory
25. What is another name for a sound wave's amplitude?
Dyscalcula
Smell
Loudness
Abstinence
26. What is: located in the limbic system - with primary function to store memories?
Watching their parents
Displacement
Fontanels
Hippocampus
27. What is: a state of mental balance - reconciling new experiences with new understanding
99%
Emergency contraception
Sound waves
Equilibrium
28. First element to Vygotsky's theory: what does social interaction facilitate?
Cerebral palsy
You need two - one from each parent - to conceive.
Cognitive improvement
Psychoanalytic theory
29. We smell when airborne molecules of an odor reach tiny receptor cells in the top of the nasal cavity; what is the name of this receptor area?
Babbling
Olfactory epithelium
As they age
Young-old
30. What sends commands to all other parts of the body?
Cochlea
Put babies on their backs to sleep - and not have anything extra (toys - pillows etc) in the bed or crib.
Behavioral
The brain stem
31. What is: the type of thought related to numerical and intellectual puzzles--with both quick & creative responses?
Parietal lobe
Fluid intelligence
Dependent variable
Pitch
32. What is a disease also called German measles?
Rubella
The Premack Principle
John Bowlby's Attachment Theory
Cesarean birth
33. Recent research supports that children learn from listening to their parents talk to them in 'baby talk'; which aspect of language is this?
Negative reinforcer
Social aspect of language
Five
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
34. The distortion of the results
Gender role stereotypes
Cooing
Bias
Self-efficacy
35. What is: the type of thought that has to do with factual information--trivia - vocabulary - science - history?
Crystallized intelligence
As they age
Obstetrician-gynecologist - family practitioner - or midwife
True
36. Who thought of the mind as a stream of consciousness--a flow of emotions - sensations and thoughts?
Avoid punishment
Contraception
Maslow
William James
37. Piaget believed that the individual actively constructs knowledge about the world--what is the term for this?
Cognitive theorist
Divergent thinkers
Ferdinand Lamaze
Kohlberg
38. What does STDs stand for - including AIDS and herpes?
Sexually transmitted diseases
Depo-Provera
Baby Albert
A census
39. One's wishes for the distribution of one's property and possessions after death
A will
Cross-modal perception
Unoccupied behavior - onlooker - solitary independent (plays alone) - parallel play (plays around but not w/ others) - associative - cooperative play
Cross Sectional Study
40. Where nursing care is given meant to maximize the quality of life for someone who is dying
Hospice
Qualitative
Homophobia
Daydreaming
41. What are the two different classifications of intelligence?
99%
Equilibrium
Independent variable
Fluid intelligence and crystal intelligence
42. How is extinction best achieved?
Gradually through shaping
Morality of Justice
Nurture
Autism
43. Why is self-report data not as reliable as other research methods?
Epinephrine and norepinephrine
Operant conditioning
Divergent thinking
Subjects may be dishonest w/ their answers
44. What is: a permanent facility control done through surgical procedures?
Bias
Sterilization
Quantitative
Extinction
45. What are the three things to monitor - to measure temperament in infants?
True
Irritability - social responsiveness - and activity level
Crystallized intelligence
Young Adult
46. What kind of problem can it cause when a husband and wife have different blood types?
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47. What section of the nervous system is responsible for the 'fight or flight' response?
Gerontology
Sublimation
Autonomic Nervous System
RU-486
48. Children that are raised on the Kibbutz will often:
9-15
Mean
Have more bland personalities and often difficult for them to create and maintain intimate relationships as they have a lack of emotional depth
Nature vs. nurture
49. What are: the harmful substances to a developing fetus?
Teratogens
9-15
Nature vs. nurture
Cross-modal perception
50. According to both Kohlberg and Piaget - the most immature reason to do something is to:
If the mom and child have different blood types - the mom's cells can attack the baby.
Skin appearance - 'age spots' - hair
Avoid punishment
Prenatal development