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DSST Lifespan Developmental Psychology
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1. What is: a statistical measure of typical scores for categories of information?
Six or seven months
4
Psychoanalytic theory
Developmental norm
2. Also called learning theory - based on the principle of observing and correcting behavior
Diaphragm
Midwife
Behaviorism
Not fully developed; but can distinguish color - track movement - and bright objects.
3. Stages of friendship: one way assistance
4-9
Natural prepared childbirth
Independent variable
Teratology
4. Children that are raised on the Kibbutz will often:
Divergent thinkers
Have more bland personalities and often difficult for them to create and maintain intimate relationships as they have a lack of emotional depth
Medicated delivery
Subject
5. Is there currently a cure for Alzheimer's disease?
Sexual identity
No
Noise
Spiritual - emotional - mental - and social health
6. First step in Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs such as food water and shelter
Frequency
Absolute threshold
The penis doesn't grow and breasts may develop.
Physical needs
7. Who conducted a longitudinal study of smart kids - resulting that they become happy adults?
Elaboration
Lewis Terman
Contraception
They can be coached into learning a type of test--do better or worse - etc.
8. What is the middle number in a set of data called?
Gender conservation
Median
Self-concept
Stage 2
9. Who argued that if psychology was a true science - then psychologists should only study what they could see and measure (behaviorist theory)?
John Watson
Operant Conditioning
Thalamus
John Bowlby's Attachment Theory
10. Children learn and form their conscience and thoughts of what is acceptable behavior from what?
Perception
Skin appearance - 'age spots' - hair
Watching their parents
Schema
11. Stages of friendship: intimate
9-15
Fetal Alcohol Syndrome
They were not scientifically performed
Kubler-Ross's Stages of Dying
12. What are the four lobes of the brain?
Occipital - temporal - frontal - and parietal.
Gene
Not fully developed; but can distinguish color - track movement - and bright objects.
Semantics
13. Why is autism rare in children for the first 2 1/2 years?
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14. What attention disorders also interfere with the learning process?
Cognitive improvement
It measures a child against their peers - in that moment
RU-486
Attention Deficit Disorder and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
15. What fluid covers the brain - and is used to transport chemicals and regulate pressure?
A census
Cerebrospinal fluid
Endocrine system
Free morpheme
16. Removing something unpleasant from a situation - to make a behavior more likely
4-9
Operant Conditioning
Preconventional - conventional - postconventional
Negative reinforcer
17. A morpheme that must be w/ a word
Limbic system
Bound morpheme
Spermicides
Short attention span
18. The process of unassociating the condition with the response
Occipital lobe
Extinction
Morphemes
Valid
19. What is when the baby is born in a pool or bath with dim lights?
Chomsky
Spiritual health
Gentle birth
Family practitioner
20. What is: irrelevant stimuli that compete for our attention (like traffic)
Through actions - doing what you believe is correct
12+
Sudden Infant Death Syndrome
Noise
21. How much is hearing developed in neonates?
Explicit role instruction
Puberty
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
Mostly developed by the time of birth
22. Which lobe is related to body sensations?
Parietal lobe
Infant
Commissures
Gender roles
23. Observing someone's behavior and basing our own behavior on it
Classical conditioning
Modeling
99%
Class inclusion
24. What is: a person's attraction to other people?
Sexual orientation
Classification
Adrenal glands
Operant conditioning
25. What is: the understanding of more advanced classification; that some sets are also sub-sets of a larger class?
Gender identity
Spiritual - emotional - mental - and social health
Class inclusion
Multiple caretakers
26. A higher number of the correlation coefficient closer to the number one shows a:
Mental health
Monozygotic twins
First trimester
Strong correlation
27. After how many cigarettes will the fetus definitely have problems--with a 50% greater risk of childhood cancer?
Extrinsic reinforcer
Five
Six or seven months
Three
28. What is the name for the 'crack' in the middle of the brain halves?
Epinephrine and norepinephrine
Longitudinal fissure
The cerebrum
It measures a child against their peers - in that moment
29. Parenting styles: respects individually - but tries to instill social values
Authoritative
Three
School-age Child
Bandura
30. 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
Ego
Midwife
Wear-and-Tear Theory
Bargaining
31. What is the study done to show that infants have depth perception?
Visual cliff
6
Medicated delivery
Family practitioner
32. Gilligan believed that ________ conflicted between self and other - while ________ conflicted between self and justice
Women - men
Correlation coefficient
Acceptance
Commissures
33. 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
Functionalism
No correlation
Projection
Multiple caretakers
34. True or False: Kohlberg believed that you go through each step of moral development one @ a time and could not skip them.
True
Heterosexual
Autonomic Nervous System
Family practitioner
35. Children that are raised on the Kibbutz are used to study the effects of what?
9-15
Holophrase syntax
Multiple caretakers
Middle ear
36. Which stage of development is: Intimacy vs. Isolation? (emotional ties with others)
Functionalism
Puberty
Dependent variable
Young Adult
37. Infants develop a secure attachment when parents pay attention to and respond to a child's needs. What theory includes this statement?
Gender identity
Psychoanalytic theory
Oral contraceptives
William James
38. 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
Dura mater
Rite of Passage
Egocentric behavior
Extrinsic reinforcer
39. What coordinates all movements and muscles?
Phonemes
Psychological maltreatment
Cerebellum
Wear-and-Tear Theory
40. What is: the type of thought related to numerical and intellectual puzzles--with both quick & creative responses?
Teratology
It measures a child against their peers - in that moment
Middle-age Adult
Fluid intelligence
41. What regulates internal temperature - eating - sleeping - drinking - emotions - and sexual activity?
99%
Accommodation
Hypothalamus
Olfactory sense
42. What is: a permanent facility control done through surgical procedures?
Sterilization
Mendel
Condom
Stage 3
43. 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?
Creative
Closure
Recall
Endocrine system
44. Something pleasant used to make a behavior more likely
Positive reinforcer
John Watson
Syphillis and rubella
Critical period
45. When a participant fills out a survey themselves about themselves
Super Ego
Put babies on their backs to sleep - and not have anything extra (toys - pillows etc) in the bed or crib.
Depth perception
Self-report data
46. What do doctors agree is the best way to feed babies?
Temporal lobe
Cerebrospinal fluid
Breast-feeding
The Premack Principle
47. Who coined the Theory of Moral Development?
Kohlberg
1) Gather info - 2) Generate hypothesis - 3) Test hypothesis - 4) Revise
3
Mental age/Chronological age - x 100
48. What is the opening of the iris - which looks black?
Pupil
Invincibility fable
Extrinsic reinforcer
Gestures
49. What does STDs stand for - including AIDS and herpes?
Sexually transmitted diseases
Gerontology
Stage 3
Retina
50. A way of obtaining information about a specific type of information in which questionnaires are given out to participants who are then asked to answer the questions to the best of their ability
Survey
Short attention span
Gilligan
Psychological maltreatment