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DSST Lifespan Developmental Psychology
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1. Parenting styles: respects individually - but tries to instill social values
Authoritative
Id - Ego - Super Ego
Valid
Mental health
2. Which part of the ANS is the calming part of the system?
Object permanence
Parasympathetic
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
Psychological Tests
3. What is: your interactions with others in social situations
If the mom and child have different blood types - the mom's cells can attack the baby.
Hollow phrases
William James
Social health
4. A type of research done inside of a lab - selected to monitor specific biological changes in individuals by using expensive and sophisticated machinery
Parallel play
Opens and closes to let the correct amount of light in
Automatic - selective - contextual - and creative
Laboratory observation
5. 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
Young Adult
Endocrine system
Equilibrium
6. What is: your sense of being a man or woman as defined by society?
Fetal alcohol syndrome
Self-efficacy
Amniocentesis
Gender
7. Which stage of development is: Generativity vs. Stagnation? (giving to the next generation)
Telegraphic speech
Middle-age Adult
Rationalization
Bargaining
8. What are the three different areas of the Autonomic Nervous System?
Perception
Rite of Passage
Family practitioner
Sympathetic - parasympathetic - and enteric
9. Children that are raised on the Kibbutz will often:
Have more bland personalities and often difficult for them to create and maintain intimate relationships as they have a lack of emotional depth
Allow the skull's plates of bone to shift or flex - making childbirth easier.
Stage 3
Middle ear
10. Third element: There is a gap between what the child can do with help - and what they can do on their own; shows when a child has finally learned it
Pupil
Appearance - pulse - grimace (reflex) - activity - and respiration
Operant Conditioning
Zone of Proximal Development
11. Children learn and form their conscience and thoughts of what is acceptable behavior from what?
Stage 1
Semantics
Median
Watching their parents
12. Who did the experiment with baby monkeys about affection and love?
Cerebral palsy
B.F. Skinner
Double blind
Harry Harlow
13. What percent of children in kindergarten are immunized?
99%
Mostly developed by the time of birth
6
Classical conditioning works more to explain reflexive or unconscious reactions - Operant conditioning works to explain elective actions and reactions
14. What is: a period in a child's development in which he/she is capable of understanding some things but not others
Through actions - doing what you believe is correct
Stage
Bell would ring - then feed the dogs - Dogs would salivate when given food - Over time dogs began to salivate simply at ring of bell
Hospice
15. The name most associated with operant conditioning is who?
Monocular cues
Gerontology
B.F. Skinner
Contraception
16. A chronic condition that deteriorates the nerve fibers in the brain controlling memory - speech - and personality. Early symptoms including personality changes - lack of interest in activities - and change in sleep patterns.
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17. According to both Kohlberg and Piaget - the most immature reason to do something is to:
Longitudinal Study
Gene
Reinforcer
Avoid punishment
18. What is: your feelings and reactions
Childhood depression
Emotional health
Celibacy
Set high standards - assist along the way
19. What is: a mix of gender identity - gender roles - and orientation; recognition of ourselves as sexual beings.
Stimulus generalization
Zone of Proximal Development
Epinephrine and norepinephrine
Sexual identity
20. What is the method in which a variable and constant are use to test theories?
Projection
IUD
Baby Albert
Experimental research
21. What gland releases hormones that regulate hormone secretions of other glands?
Pituitary gland
Hypothalamus
Set high standards - assist along the way
Sexual identity
22. A term used in research used to describe something measurable usually expressed as a number
Laboratory observation
Morality of Justice
Longitudinal fissure
Quantitative
23. What are the four areas of taste that taste-buds recognize?
Monocular cues
Dependent variable
Loudness
Sweet - bitter - salty - sour
24. What is the sense that gives information about balance and body movement? (if your body is moving - tilting - etc.)
Autoerotic behavior
Vestibular sense
Positive reinforcer
RU-486
25. Child's realization their sex will stay the same
Convergent thinking
Gender conservation
Francis Bacon--16th century
As they age
26. Stages of friendship: one way assistance
Content validity
Have more bland personalities and often difficult for them to create and maintain intimate relationships as they have a lack of emotional depth
Object permanence
4-9
27. What is the conception alternative where semen is deposited into the body via a thin tube?
Operant Conditioning
Ageism
Alternative - or artificial - insemination
Olfactory epithelium
28. When people are followed and studied over a long period of time and checked up on at certain points
Contraception
Hour of love
Mostly developed by the time of birth
Longitudinal Study
29. What is: irrelevant stimuli that compete for our attention (like traffic)
Long labors or birth complications
Recognition
Emergency contraception
Noise
30. What is: attraction to both sexes?
Frequency
Absolute threshold
Bisexual
Mental health
31. What is the variable that the experimenter controls?
Hippocampus
Independent variable
Nature
Fit in
32. What is the term for identical twins?
Bandura
Visual cliff
Avoid punishment
Monozygotic twins
33. What is the approach that assumes people organize their perceptions by patterns?
Sexual identity
Gestalt psychology
Wilhelm Wundt
In vitro fertilization
34. Failure to thrive is caused by:
Emotional neglect
Sampling
Correlational research
Esteem needs
35. Which lobe is related to vision?
Occipital lobe
Fetal alcohol syndrome
Social aspect of language
Emotional health
36. When one variable increase - another variable increases. We call this a what?
Binocular cues
Positive Correlation
Sexual orientation
Injections
37. Age at with children start feeling a fear of the dark - which can be strong and appear suddenly
6
Projection
The penis doesn't grow and breasts may develop.
A will
38. 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
5
Bell would ring - then feed the dogs - Dogs would salivate when given food - Over time dogs began to salivate simply at ring of bell
Random assignment
Functionalism
39. Who believed that children's thinking doesn't develop smoothly - but instead certain points where it 'takes off' and transitions into new areas?
Jean Piaget
Gradually through shaping
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
Self-concept
40. Who founded the Hierarchy of Needs theory?
Old-old
Strong correlation
Maslow
The meanlinkk of utterance (how long their sentences are)
41. 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
The brain
Id
Negative Correlation
Abstinence
42. What fluid covers the brain - and is used to transport chemicals and regulate pressure?
Cerebrospinal fluid
Gerontology
90%
Gilligan
43. When one variable increases while another variable decreases. We call this a what?
Negative Correlation
Hollow phrases
Contextual
Acceptance
44. What is: when adolescents truly believe themselves to be the center of the universe to those around them?
Visual cliff
Cephalocaudal and Proximodistal
Preoperational stage (ages 3-6)
Adolescent Egocentrism
45. Therapy that involves the whole family
Divergent thinkers
Family therapy
Watching their parents
Cut in half
46. Stages of friendship: two way - fair weathered
Behaviorism
6-12
Young-old
Class inclusion
47. 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)
Occipital - temporal - frontal - and parietal.
Independent variable
Timbre
Operation
48. The negative effects of sensory deprivation (not as much attention) are more likely to _______ w/ the length of the stage.
Increase
Nature
Self-esteem
The posterior (back) fontanel: within two months of birth. The anterior (front) fontanel: by the child's 2nd birthday.
49. Level 2 of Kohlberg's Theory of Moral Development includes which stages
Autoimmune Theory
Three
It measures a child against their peers - in that moment
3 & 4
50. When people of different ages are studied at one particular time
Negative Correlation
Egocentric behavior
Cross Sectional Study
Physical needs
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