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DSST Lifespan Developmental Psychology
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. What are: the harmful substances to a developing fetus?
Jean Piaget
Emotional health
Teratogens
Occipital - temporal - frontal - and parietal.
2. What is the method of surgical delivery?
Equilibrium
Cesarean birth
4
6
3. What is a specific period in development when a certain event has the greatest impact? (For example - a certain period of time when a young bird can learn to fly)
The meanlinkk of utterance (how long their sentences are)
Gender conservation
John Bowlby's Attachment Theory
Critical period
4. What is: the process of working something out in your head; shows the difference between young children (act and try things out) and older (can do things in their heads)
Mendel
Autoimmune Theory
School-age Child
Operation
5. 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
Clinical psychologist
Hypokinetic diseases
The cerebrum
Gradually through shaping
6. When one variable increases while another variable decreases. We call this a what?
Assimilation
4-9
Negative Correlation
The skull - dura mater membrane - arachnoid layer - and pia mater.
7. What is: the representation in the mind of a set of perceptions - ideas - and actions - which go together
Spiritual - emotional - mental - and social health
Stage 5
Schema
Nurture
8. 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?
Chomsky
Gender roles
Sigmund Freud
Cross Sectional Study
9. What is the medical means to terminate a pregnancy?
Not fully developed; but can distinguish color - track movement - and bright objects.
Abortion
Young Adult
Jean Piaget
10. What is: when a sample is taken from the fluid in the amniotic sac - to be tested for diseases or genetic traits?
Divergent thinking
Short attention span
Adolescent Egocentrism
Amniocentesis
11. What two diseases - when caught early in the pregnancy - are most dangerous to the fetus?
Syphillis and rubella
Stage 4
Divergent thinking
Rubella
12. Parenting styles: makes few demands - hardly ever punishes
6-12
The posterior (back) fontanel: within two months of birth. The anterior (front) fontanel: by the child's 2nd birthday.
Permissive
As soon as the bell was rung
13. What is the perception characteristic that: you don't have to think about it for it to happen?
Schema
IUD
Weak correlation
Automatic
14. After how many cigarettes will the fetus definitely have problems--with a 50% greater risk of childhood cancer?
Miscarriages or stillbirths
Independent variable
Five
12+
15. The scientific study of words and sentences
Semantics
Amniocentesis
Gestures
Base of the skull; size of a pea
16. What is: a mix of gender identity - gender roles - and orientation; recognition of ourselves as sexual beings.
Sexual identity
Virginia Apgar - or Apgar Rating
Depo-Provera
1 & 2
17. Defense mechanism: Turning a feeling into the exact opposite feeling
Reaction Formation
Bisexual
Humanistic
Intestate
18. The study of the aging process
Spiritual health
Gerontology
Parasympathetic
Visual cliff
19. How do you fix the problem of mother's cells attacking the baby's?
Injections
Psychoanalytical
Esteem needs
Critical period
20. Not physical abuse but when the child feels rejected or feels failure
Homophobia
Psychological maltreatment
ADHD
Middle-old
21. What is the conception alternative where semen is deposited into the body via a thin tube?
Intrinsic reinforcer
Correlational research
Gentle birth
Alternative - or artificial - insemination
22. Where is the pituitary gland located - and how big is it?
Developmental norm
Base of the skull; size of a pea
Bandura
Young Adult
23. When someone sees an incomplete form - they fill in the pieces and perceive it as it would be that way. What Gestalt principle is this an example of?
Personality
Independent variable
Frequency
Closure
24. A number between +1 and -1 that measures the strength between two variables
Sound waves
Gender
Operant Conditioning
Correlation coefficient
25. Gilligan believed that ________ conflicted between self and other - while ________ conflicted between self and justice
Not fully developed; but can distinguish color - track movement - and bright objects.
A census
Survey
Women - men
26. What is a common learning disability in reading?
9-15
Dyslexia
Object permanence
Excitement - plateau - orgasm - and resolution phases
27. How much is hearing developed in neonates?
Cognitive
Authoritarian
Mostly developed by the time of birth
Psychiatrist
28. What is: the ear's interpretation of a sound's frequency
Pitch
Selera
Autoimmune Theory
Operant conditioning
29. Rang the bell each time he fed the dog; eventually how early did the dogs start salivating?
Heterosexual
As soon as the bell was rung
Ferdinand Lamaze
Midwife
30. What is the name for depth perception cues made with both eyes?
Binocular cues
Fluid intelligence
Reinforcer
Correlational research
31. Which lobe is related to vision?
Because at birth cells aren't well connected (lacking in myelin - or nerve insulation)
Id
Occipital lobe
Divergent thinkers
32. What is the drug to cause an abortion in the first 9 weeks of pregnancy?
Functionalism
Raymond Cattell
Three percent
RU-486
33. Method that teaches children to realized their full potential.
The Montessori Method
Convergent thinking
A will
Gilligan
34. What is: an M.D. who specializes in OB-GYN?
Daydreaming
Qualitative
Obstetrician-gynecologist
They can be coached into learning a type of test--do better or worse - etc.
35. Level 2 of Kohlberg's Theory of Moral Development includes which stages
Correlational research
3 & 4
Rite of Passage
Excitement - plateau - orgasm - and resolution phases
36. What is: when the mother consumes alcohol while her babies are in the womb?
The brain
Placebo effect
Ferdinand Lamaze
Fetal alcohol syndrome
37. A collection of data from all cases or people in the chosen set
Sweet - bitter - salty - sour
A census
Commissures
Sublimation
38. Applied when a test measures something more than one facet
Content validity
Qualitative
Stage 1
Class inclusion
39. What is: your feelings and reactions
Monozygotic twins
Stage 2
Positive Correlation
Emotional health
40. The integrator between the outer and inner worlds - as well as the id and the superego. Gives continuity and consistency to behavior by providing a personal point of reference - which relates to the events of the past and actions of the present and o
Adolescent Egocentrism
Functionalism
Ego
Middle childhood
41. Stages of friendship: intimate
Middle ear
Positive reinforcer
Preschooler
9-15
42. Aside from learning disabilities - what physical problem do Kleinfelter people have?
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43. Child's realization their sex will stay the same
Gender conservation
Safety
Hour of love
Thalamus
44. What is the very critical period of the first 3 months in the womb?
Prenatal development
Self-actualization - Esteem needs - Belonging and love - Safety - Physical needs
Drugs - diseases (like HIV - rubella) - and pollutants (mercury - radiation - etc)
1) Gather info - 2) Generate hypothesis - 3) Test hypothesis - 4) Revise
45. Which thought process is: a set of steps is followed to come to a correct answer; used in academic (math/science) settings?
Endocrine system
Convergent thinking
Divergent thinkers
Cerebral cortex
46. What is the term for oxygen deficiency to the brain?
Cerebral anoxia
Preparatory Depression
Sexually transmitted diseases
Median
47. Stages that a person goes through when they find out they have an incurable disease or find out they are going to die
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48. What is: the tone color or perceptual quality of a sound?
Timbre
Middle-old
Informed consent
Virginia Apgar - or Apgar Rating
49. Defense mechanism: you deny your feelings and come up with ways to justify your behavior
Rationalization
Behavioral
Depth perception
Conception
50. Who created functionalism?
Telegraphic speech
Heterosexual
William James
Fetal alcohol syndrome