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DSST Lifespan Developmental Psychology
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1. 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?
99%
Closure
More Knowledgeable Other (MKO)
Pons
2. John Bowlby felt that attachment held evolutionary purpose. Explain
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
Toddler
Middle-old
RU-486
3. What is: your interactions with others in social situations
6-12
4
Social health
Unoccupied behavior - onlooker - solitary independent (plays alone) - parallel play (plays around but not w/ others) - associative - cooperative play
4. Which lobe is related to voluntary muscles and intelligence?
Conceive at younger ages
The brain
Have more bland personalities and often difficult for them to create and maintain intimate relationships as they have a lack of emotional depth
Frontal lobe
5. Whatmakes a person able to see objects are they are - in 3 dimensions?
Physical needs
Holophrase syntax
Pupil
Depth perception
6. What is: when adolescents truly believe themselves to be the center of the universe to those around them?
Adolescent Egocentrism
Divergent thinkers
Family situation - the world around you - lifespan - and maturity.
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7. When one variable increases while another variable decreases. We call this a what?
Fetal alcohol syndrome
William James
Negative Correlation
Long labors or birth complications
8. Which receptor is more sensitive to light - but is not used to view color?
Autoerotic behavior
Cellular Theory
Rods
Iris
9. 1 -2 -2 -2 -3 -3 -5 -8 -9 -9. What is the mode?
Behavioral
Zone of Proximal Development
2
Social learning theory
10. What is: a permanent facility control done through surgical procedures?
Limbic system
Genes
Sterilization
Babbling
11. What are the factors that influence psychosocial health?
Subject
1 in 14 -000
Family situation - the world around you - lifespan - and maturity.
Automatic - selective - contextual - and creative
12. What is when the baby is born in a pool or bath with dim lights?
Mental age/Chronological age - x 100
Intrinsic reinforcer
Correlational research
Gentle birth
13. An environment where children live and attend school
Spiritual - emotional - mental - and social health
Peer group
Object permanence
Base of the skull; size of a pea
14. What is: term for how much someone values and respects themselves?
Wear-and-Tear Theory
Permissive
Reinforcer
Self-esteem
15. What purpose do fontanels have?
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16. What is the term for the death of a child under one year - for no apparent reason?
Occipital lobe
Accommodation
Sudden Infant Death Syndrome
Resilient child
17. What is the name for depth perception cues made with both eyes?
The cloth monkey
Binocular cues
Sympathetic - parasympathetic - and enteric
Correlation coefficient
18. When do the two fontanels harden?
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19. Gilligan believed that ________ conflicted between self and other - while ________ conflicted between self and justice
No correlation
Syphillis and rubella
4-9
Women - men
20. What is: the bumps on top of the tongue that contain taste buds?
The Montessori Method
Selera
Papillae
Sterilization
21. What is: psychological definition for having more equal personality characteristics between male&female?
Androgynous
Adolescent Egocentrism
Parietal lobe
Olfactory epithelium
22. What is the method in which a variable and constant are use to test theories?
Experimental research
Family practitioner
Osteoporosis
Wear-and-Tear Theory
23. What disorder causes a person to have difficulty concentration - be easily distracted - or constantly in motion?
Olfactory sense
Cornea
Hurried-child
ADHD
24. What is: the method to prevent an egg and sperm from being able to access each other?
Psychiatrist
Contraception
Down syndrome
Skin appearance - 'age spots' - hair
25. What is: the type of thought related to numerical and intellectual puzzles--with both quick & creative responses?
Bias
Clinical psychologist
Teratogens
Fluid intelligence
26. Children are most likely to achieve if parents:
Dependent variable
Heterosexual
Set high standards - assist along the way
10
27. What is: not being involved in a sexual relationship?
Celibacy
Dependent variable
Experimental group and control group
Reaction Formation
28. Therapy that involves the whole family
Independent variable
Psychoanalytic theory
Family therapy
Frequency
29. Does a somatic (body) cell have a full - or half - set of chromosomes?
Rh positive
Stage 5
Full (46)
Cephalocaudal
30. What is: structures in the cerebral cortex related to memory and emotion?
You need two - one from each parent - to conceive.
Wilhelm Wundt
Limbic system
As they age
31. Stages of friendship: two way - fair weathered
Fetal tobacco syndrome
Spermicides
Echolalia
6-12
32. Where are genes carried?
Corpus callosum
Consciousness
On chromosomes
Suppression
33. Read pages 22-25 for charts: Piaget's Stages of Development and Freud's Psychosexual Stages
Cut in half
...
Natural prepared childbirth
Convergent thinking
34. A signal to society that certain rules have changed - this person is no longer a child
Dyscalcula
Free morpheme
Rite of Passage
Thalamus
35. What controls breathing and heart rate?
Fetal tobacco syndrome
Preconventional Morality
Dyscalcula
Pons
36. Which protective brain layer is mostly blood vessels?
Stimulus generalization
Super Ego
Classical conditioning
Pia mater
37. What is: the type of thought that has to do with factual information--trivia - vocabulary - science - history?
Subject
Crystallized intelligence
Deferred imitation
You need two - one from each parent - to conceive.
38. Used to show links between people - events - actions - behaviors - etc. while not determining the caus - rather is linked to statistics
Correlation Research
Commissures
Around age two
Explicit role instruction
39. Gifted children often hide gifts to ______.
John Watson
The cloth monkey
Monocular cues
Fit in
40. What is the chance of a baby having PKU?
1 in 14 -000
Social development or social cognition
Maslow
Qualitative
41. When people w/in an experiment are assigned to a group randomly
Psychiatrist
Random assignment
Morality of Care
Holophrase syntax
42. In children babbling begins around age _____ - while in deaf infants babbling usually begins around several months later
Outer ear
2
Six or seven months
Kohlberg
43. What is: the most developed - and largest (80%) - part of the brain?
Middle-age Adult
Humanistic
Obstetrician-gynecologist
Cerebral cortex
44. What is: the theory centered on studying how the mind is involved in knowing - learning - remembering - thinking; study how the mind relates to behavior
Autonomic Nervous System
Cross Sectional Study
Cognitive
Neonate
45. 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
Cooing
Self-actualization
Correlation coefficient
46. What is: the theory to investigate the elements or 'structures' of the mind; classify structures and focus on conscious thought
Reciprocal determinism
Structuralism
Autoerotic behavior
Dizygotic twins
47. Also called learning theory - based on the principle of observing and correcting behavior
Watching their parents
Olfactory epithelium
Behaviorism
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
48. Who first coined self-efficacy?
Free morpheme
Double blind
Five
Bandura
49. Deaf children will often be more proficient at communicating through _______ than do hearing infants - often being able to sign at ten months old
Gestures
Endocrine system
Jean Piaget
Sudden Infant Death Syndrome
50. Which stage of development is: Trust vs. Mistrust?
Hippocampus
Pitch
Infant
Appearance - pulse - grimace (reflex) - activity - and respiration
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