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DSST Lifespan Developmental Psychology
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. What is: attraction to the opposite sex?
No
Heterosexual
Random assignment
Social aspect of language
2. Not physical abuse but when the child feels rejected or feels failure
Super Ego
Set high standards - assist along the way
Pupil
Psychological maltreatment
3. Those who are mentally retarded are least likely to also have WHAT condition?
True
Cerebral palsy
Genes
Socialization
4. What is the characteristic that: you may be more interested in a person - rather than what she is saying?
Selective
Lewis Terman
Bargaining
Ethics
5. What is the name of the scientist known as the father of genetics and inheritance?
Acceptance
Norplant
Mendel
Mode
6. States that infants need to form at least one strong attachment such as to a parent - in order to develop normally
7. 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
Displacement
Psychological Tests
Figurative language
8. What is: focusing attention on a small amount of information?
Cross Sectional Study
Operant Conditioning
Selective attention
Anger (Emotion)
9. Categories of old age: 85+
Morphemes
Cornea and lens
Women - men
Old-old
10. What is: a child (especially preschool age) doesn't take into consideration other people's needs--their perceptions are limited to their own point of view
Egocentric behavior
Three percent
They were not scientifically performed
Timbre
11. What does the left half of the brain control?
Explicit role instruction
Lens
The meanlinkk of utterance (how long their sentences are)
The right hand - right eye - and speech
12. When one variable increase - another variable increases. We call this a what?
Lewis Terman
Mainstreaming
Strong correlation
Positive Correlation
13. Also called learning theory - based on the principle of observing and correcting behavior
Three
Six or seven months
Behaviorism
Sigmund Freud
14. What is: the theory centered on studying how the mind is involved in knowing - learning - remembering - thinking; study how the mind relates to behavior
Displacement
Cognitive
Excitement - plateau - orgasm - and resolution phases
5
15. What is: sexual self-stimulation or masturbation?
50%
Socialization
Autoerotic behavior
Extrinsic reinforcer
16. What is the white part of the eye that protects and manages the shape of the eye?
Mostly developed by the time of birth
Selera
ADHD
Drugs - diseases (like HIV - rubella) - and pollutants (mercury - radiation - etc)
17. Stereotypes in genders; boys play with trucks and girls wear makeup - etc.
Cochlea
Psychoanalytic theory
Explicit role instruction
Contextual
18. Who believed that children's thinking doesn't develop smoothly - but instead certain points where it 'takes off' and transitions into new areas?
Bell would ring - then feed the dogs - Dogs would salivate when given food - Over time dogs began to salivate simply at ring of bell
Selera
Jean Piaget
A census
19. What is the name for the awareness of external and internal events?
Egocentrism
Emotional health
Suppression
Consciousness
20. The distortion of the results
Bias
Jean Piaget
Not fully developed; but can distinguish color - track movement - and bright objects.
Babbling
21. What is: the study of substances which are harmful to prenatal development?
Rods
B.F. Skinner
Mode
Teratology
22. What is the most popular method for giving birth?
Morality of Justice
John Bowlby's Attachment Theory
In vitro fertilization
Medicated delivery
23. Time at which most children begin to speak actual words
Hypokinetic diseases
Natural observation
10-14 months
Commissures
24. What is the method to find the amount that one variable changes in relation to another?
Fluid intelligence and crystal intelligence
Spiritual health
Correlational research
Laboratory observation
25. What is: the moment an ovum/egg is fertilized by sperm?
Slowed growth - body/face malfunctions - nervous system disorders - mental retardation.
Conception
Hollow phrases
Inner ear
26. What glands affect the mood - energy level - and stress?
Ageism
Authoritative
Depo-Provera
Adrenal glands
27. 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
Stage 4
Id
Divergent thinkers
Visual cliff
28. Stage at which children are egocentric and will therefore think divorce is their fault
Morphemes
Preoperational stage (ages 3-6)
Half (23)
Gender identity
29. Which stage of development is: Autonomy vs. Shame and Doubt (making their own decisions)
Toddler
Mean
Selective
Autoerotic behavior
30. What is the term for fraternal twins?
Childhood depression
Olfactory sense
Modeling
Dizygotic twins
31. Sigmund Freud's analysis of human personality and subconscious drives features three main components including:
Multiple caretakers
Mean
Sampling
Id - Ego - Super Ego
32. Defense mechanism: hiding the feelings and not acknowledging them
Suppression
Socialization
Kleinfelter Syndrome; male
Schema
33. There are usually two groups in an experiment - titled:
Avoid punishment
Experimental group and control group
1 in 14 -000
Reinforcer
34. Parenting styles: 'because I say so'--more prevalent in lower-class families
Fetal alcohol syndrome
Authoritarian
Explicit role instruction
Schema
35. What is the conception alternative where fertilization of the egg is done outside the body - and then transferred back into the body?
Avoid punishment
Critical period
Abortion
In vitro fertilization
36. Experiment where researchers made a baby afraid of rats through classical conditioning
Baby Albert
Stage 3
Down syndrome
Six or seven months
37. The ethical component of the personality and provides the moral standards by which the ego operates
Intestate
Sympathetic - parasympathetic - and enteric
Super Ego
Humanistic Theorists
38. What is: the process by which a society identifies its expectations?
Socialization
Reciprocal determinism
Because at birth cells aren't well connected (lacking in myelin - or nerve insulation)
Autonomic Nervous System
39. Observing someone's behavior and basing our own behavior on it
Gonads
Modeling
Oral contraceptives
Cerebrospinal fluid
40. What is: your thoughts - beliefs - attitudes - and values
Mentally retarded
Base of the skull; size of a pea
Explicit role instruction
Mental health
41. What disorder causes a person to have difficulty concentration - be easily distracted - or constantly in motion?
Bandura
ADHD
Authoritarian
Consciousness
42. What is the name for the bundles of axons - used to communicate between the two halves of brain?
Gestures
As soon as the bell was rung
Preconventional Morality
Commissures
43. Therapy that involves the whole family
Morality of Care
Family therapy
Pons
Rh positive
44. Stage in which whether you will be punished or not determines what is moral or not - also called the punishment and obiedience phase
Old-old
Stage 1
Zygote
It measures a child against their peers - in that moment
45. Which part of the ANS is the arousing part of the system?
Sympathetic nervous system
Phonemes
Sexual orientation
Explicit role instruction
46. What is: the part of the ear inside the cochlea; contains sensors that change energy into impulses to be decoded by the brain?
Babbling
Best friend
Organ of corti
Longitudinal Study
47. What are: drugs taken within three days to prevent pregnancy from instances such as no protection - or a broken condom?
A census
Emergency contraception
Occipital lobe
Correlational research
48. What is the method in which a variable and constant are use to test theories?
Experimental research
Semantics
Autoimmune Theory
Base of the skull; size of a pea
49. 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
Holophrase syntax
Absolute threshold
Developmental norm
Stage 1
50. Where a group of people live together and the children of all the people are raised by one or two people
Kibbutz
Crystallized intelligence
Old Age
Six months