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DSST Lifespan Developmental Psychology
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1. Age at which children begin to share their toys and interact w/ one another - associative play
6-12
3
Rubella
True
2. Who conducted a longitudinal study of smart kids - resulting that they become happy adults?
Lewis Terman
Frontal lobe
Kohlberg
Selective
3. What is the simple type of learning for getting used to something?
The Montessori Method
Id
Gender
Habituation
4. Types of child play in chronological order:
Thalamus
Rubella
Unoccupied behavior - onlooker - solitary independent (plays alone) - parallel play (plays around but not w/ others) - associative - cooperative play
You need two - one from each parent - to conceive.
5. A child that bounces back from a difficult situation
Resilient child
Explicit role instruction
Self-actualization - Esteem needs - Belonging and love - Safety - Physical needs
Wilhelm Wundt
6. Who created structuralism?
Wilhelm Wundt
Automatic - selective - contextual - and creative
Independent variable
Preconventional - conventional - postconventional
7. Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs consists of which steps?
Sudden Infant Death Syndrome
Self-actualization - Esteem needs - Belonging and love - Safety - Physical needs
Mental age/Chronological age - x 100
Obstetrician-gynecologist - family practitioner - or midwife
8. What is the perception characteristic that: you don't have to think about it for it to happen?
Zygote
Automatic
Pons
Self-esteem
9. What is: a progesterone shot given every three months?
Negative Correlation
Depo-Provera
Critical period
Loudness
10. Which thought process is a creative process?
The more accurate the result
Mental health
Convergent thinking
Divergent thinking
11. What are the two directions of growth in the embryo?
Cephalocaudal and Proximodistal
Alfred Binet
Ivan Pavlov
A census
12. What is the part of the ear that includes the pinna and external auditory canal?
Pons
Outer ear
Occipital lobe
Autonomic Nervous System
13. Defense mechanism: you deny your feelings and come up with ways to justify your behavior
Base of the skull; size of a pea
Regression
Full (46)
Rationalization
14. Experiment where researchers made a baby afraid of rats through classical conditioning
Baby Albert
Amniocentesis
Babbling
Alfred Binet
15. Where nursing care is given meant to maximize the quality of life for someone who is dying
Virginia Apgar - or Apgar Rating
Homophobia
...
Hospice
16. 1 -2 -2 -2 -3 -3 -5 -8 -9 -9. What is the mode?
Multiple caretakers
Stillbirth
Stage 1
2
17. Therapy that involves the whole family
Family therapy
Social learning theory
Cognitive theorist
Encoding the information - represnting the information - and retrieving information from memory.
18. In a case study - a single individual called a _____ is intensely studied
Epinephrine and norepinephrine
Dizygotic twins
Subject
Quantitative
19. Which lobe is related to vision?
Correlation Research
Experimental research
Occipital lobe
50%
20. Recent research supports that children learn from listening to their parents talk to them in 'baby talk'; which aspect of language is this?
Celibacy
Full (46)
Experimental research
Social aspect of language
21. How many PAIRS of chromosomes do body cells have?
23 pairs
Id
5 & 6
Recognition
22. How does the pupil work?
Pituitary gland
Opens and closes to let the correct amount of light in
Laboratory observation
Three percent
23. What is the chance of having a boy or girl - according to Mendel's experiments in genetics?
Family practitioner
Gonads
50%
Denial
24. What is the most extreme outcome of a woman drinking during her pregnancy?
Super Ego
Miscarriages or stillbirths
Fetal death
Sexual orientation
25. What syndrome is characterized by small stature - poor coordination - hyperactive - learning disabilities - mental retardation - or large head?
Fetal Alcohol Syndrome
Lewis Terman
Cooing
Young Adult
26. Who coined the Theory of Moral Development?
Kohlberg
Humanistic Theorists
Raymond Cattell
Limbic system
27. What is: when the mother consumes alcohol while her babies are in the womb?
Fontanels
Wilhelm Wundt
Syphillis and rubella
Fetal alcohol syndrome
28. What is the term for low IQ and mental age of about 4 years old?
Mentally retarded
Bias
Pia mater
Hippocampus
29. What is: a statistical measure of typical scores for categories of information?
Increase
Temporal lobe
Developmental norm
Morality of Justice
30. What is: the difference made to one's mind by the process of assimilation?
Dizygotic twins
Accommodation
Homosexual
Cognitive theorist
31. Defense mechanism in which complete rejection of the feeling or situation
Denial
Selera
Regression
Cognitive theorist
32. What are the three parts of memory?
Operant conditioning
Belonging and love
Authoritative
Encoding the information - represnting the information - and retrieving information from memory.
33. What is the conception alternative where semen is deposited into the body via a thin tube?
Positive reinforcer
Alternative - or artificial - insemination
Independent variable
Sympathetic - parasympathetic - and enteric
34. What are the four lobes of the brain?
Conceive at younger ages
Cornea
Occipital - temporal - frontal - and parietal.
Put babies on their backs to sleep - and not have anything extra (toys - pillows etc) in the bed or crib.
35. Stage in which a person makes decisions according to his or her conscience; the universal ethical principal orientation; not many people ever reach this stage
Telegraphic speech
Injections
3 & 4
Stage 6
36. What are the four layers that protect the brain?
The skull - dura mater membrane - arachnoid layer - and pia mater.
Commissures
Old-old
Adolescent Egocentrism
37. Parenting styles: makes few demands - hardly ever punishes
Ferdinand Lamaze
10
Half (23)
Permissive
38. A type of research done inside of a lab - selected to monitor specific biological changes in individuals by using expensive and sophisticated machinery
Laboratory observation
Reinforcer
Parasympathetic
Six months
39. Did a longitudinal study that showed that smart kids are happy adults
Lewis Terman
Random assignment
Median
Autonomic Nervous System
40. Second element: The presence of someone who knows more in an area - like a parent - teacher - coach - etc.?
Weak correlation
More Knowledgeable Other (MKO)
Up to 6 months of observation by doctors
Frequency
41. First element to Vygotsky's theory: what does social interaction facilitate?
Cognitive improvement
Projection
Visual cliff
Pitch
42. What is the name for the awareness of external and internal events?
Erogenous zones
12+
Reaction Formation
Consciousness
43. In a child - can be expressed as 'nobody likes me'
Childhood depression
Outer ear
10
Parasympathetic
44. What is: a person's attraction to other people?
Sexual orientation
Corpus callosum
Gilligan
Abstinence
45. By the time they reach middle childhood - most girls will identify with one and only one _______.
Pituitary gland
Psychological maltreatment
Genes
Best friend
46. Sigmund Freud's analysis of human personality and subconscious drives features three main components including:
Id - Ego - Super Ego
Gentle birth
Positive reinforcer
Content validity
47. What side of the N/N debate means that all children are first good; believe it is the way they are brought up that affects personality and actions?
Nurture
Dialectical perspective
Hurried-child
Autoimmune Theory
48. Stages of friendship: autonomous - interdependent
Short attention span
1) Gather info - 2) Generate hypothesis - 3) Test hypothesis - 4) Revise
12+
Mentally retarded
49. What is the conception alternative where fertilization of the egg is done outside the body - and then transferred back into the body?
In vitro fertilization
True
Encoding the information - represnting the information - and retrieving information from memory.
Free morpheme
50. The first experiment of classical conditioning was done by who?
Attention Deficit Disorder and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
Natural observation
Belonging and love
Ivan Pavlov