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DSST Lifespan Developmental Psychology
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1. A method of modifying behavior - by ignoring the behavior so you don't have the response
Lens
Kubler-Ross's Stages of Dying
Fluid intelligence
Response extinction
2. A type of conditioning in which a person associates an action with a consequence
Olfactory sense
Operant Conditioning
Social development or social cognition
Lewis Terman
3. Which stage of development is: Industry vs. Inferiority? (working with others)
Convergent thinking
Jean Piaget
School-age Child
Behaviorism
4. Stage in which whether you will be punished or not determines what is moral or not - also called the punishment and obiedience phase
The posterior (back) fontanel: within two months of birth. The anterior (front) fontanel: by the child's 2nd birthday.
Figurative language
Stage 1
Dependent variable
5. Children are most likely to achieve if parents:
Absolute threshold
Set high standards - assist along the way
Classical conditioning
Autoimmune Theory
6. A test that gives information about a participant including standardized tests such as aptitude - interest - and personality tests
Cross-modal perception
Adolescent
Around age two
Psychological Tests
7. What is: expression of your maleness or femaleness on a daily basis?
Gender roles
Fluid intelligence and crystal intelligence
Amniocentesis
Pons
8. Did a longitudinal study that showed that smart kids are happy adults
Positive reinforcer
Pia mater
Oral contraceptives
Lewis Terman
9. What is: another form of consciousness involving very little effort; dreaming while awake or letting the mind wander?
6
Sterilization
Multiple caretakers
Daydreaming
10. Babies are rewarded with food/attention with they say 'mama' etc - so they continue to say those words and learn new ones; what idea does this theory follow?
Operant conditioning
Old-old
Schema
Bisexual
11. What is: attraction to the opposite sex?
Heterosexual
Because at birth cells aren't well connected (lacking in myelin - or nerve insulation)
Quantitative
Invincibility fable
12. Who did the experiment with baby monkeys about affection and love?
Conservation
Harry Harlow
Lewis Terman
Frontal lobe
13. Second stage in the Kubler-Ross's Stages of Dying: 'This is unfair. Why me?'
They can be coached into learning a type of test--do better or worse - etc.
All drugs - including over the counter - aspirin - coffee
Anger (Emotion)
Contextual
14. Observing someone's behavior and basing our own behavior on it
Left hand - left eye - and simple comprehension
Classical conditioning
Middle-age Adult
Modeling
15. What do physicians recommend to prevent SIDS?
Put babies on their backs to sleep - and not have anything extra (toys - pillows etc) in the bed or crib.
Frequency
Sublimation
William James
16. Age at which children begin to share their toys and interact w/ one another - associative play
3
William James
John Watson
The brain/the cerebral cortex
17. In the Harlow experiment: between the wire monkey+bottle - and cloth monkey+no bottle - which fake mother did the babies prefer?
Vygotsky
The cloth monkey
Watching their parents
Sublimation
18. What is: growth from the center (spine) outward - where vital organs form before the extremities?
Functionalism
Closure
Proximodistal
Hypokinetic diseases
19. States that infants need to form at least one strong attachment such as to a parent - in order to develop normally
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20. Sigmund Freud's analysis of human personality and subconscious drives features three main components including:
Absolute threshold
Hour of love
Id - Ego - Super Ego
The brain stem
21. Who argued that classical conditioning explains some behaviors - but operant conditioning plays a much larger role?
Bisexual
Rationalization
50%
B.F. Skinner
22. What are the different types of caregivers for pregnancy?
23 pairs
Stage 1
Obstetrician-gynecologist - family practitioner - or midwife
Survey
23. What is the name for the awareness of external and internal events?
Automatic - selective - contextual - and creative
No
Consciousness
William James
24. What is another term for the system of hearing?
Auditory System
Long labors or birth complications
Social development or social cognition
Stage
25. What is: the elated feeling adolescents have - that they are immune to risks - mortality and probability; false sense of security thinking they will never fall or get caught.
Fetal death
Invincibility fable
Mentally retarded
Hollow phrases
26. What is: term used to describe a person's belief that they can perform a task successfully?
Natural observation
Kleinfelter Syndrome; male
Self-efficacy
Unoccupied behavior - onlooker - solitary independent (plays alone) - parallel play (plays around but not w/ others) - associative - cooperative play
27. Pavlovs famous classical conditioning dog experiment.
Homophobia
Bell would ring - then feed the dogs - Dogs would salivate when given food - Over time dogs began to salivate simply at ring of bell
5 & 6
Ivan Pavlov
28. What are: drugs taken within three days to prevent pregnancy from instances such as no protection - or a broken condom?
Social development or social cognition
Content validity
Structuralism
Emergency contraception
29. What are areas in a baby's skull where cartilage hasn't yet hardened into bone?
John Watson
Smell
Fontanels
Condom
30. What is the conception alternative where fertilization of the egg is done outside the body - and then transferred back into the body?
Object permanence
Preoperational stage (ages 3-6)
Androgynous
In vitro fertilization
31. Defense mechanism: reverting to old behavior to avoid feelings
6-12
Regression
Emergency contraception
Suppression
32. Recent research supports that children learn from listening to their parents talk to them in 'baby talk'; which aspect of language is this?
Erogenous zones
Social aspect of language
Reciprocal determinism
Authoritative
33. What is: the ability to associate something from one area of knowledge - and use that to determine or imagine what it is like in other aspects?
John Bowlby's Attachment Theory
Avoid punishment
Cross-modal perception
Attention Deficit Disorder and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
34. A reinforcer that comes from within the individual--something emotional.
Intrinsic reinforcer
Psychological Tests
Positive Correlation
Cerebellum
35. In a child - can be expressed as 'nobody likes me'
Childhood depression
Cerebrospinal fluid
Infant
Positive reinforcer
36. What is: the process by which a person takes material into their mind from the environment - which may mean changing sensory evidence to make it fit?
Alternative - or artificial - insemination
It measures a child against their peers - in that moment
Assimilation
6-12
37. What is the term for lack of responsiveness to other people?
Cognitive improvement
Sterilization
Autism
Psychoanalytic theory
38. Third step in Maslow's Hierarchy of needs in which you may want to meet needs of belongings and love through relationships
Vygotsky
Belonging and love
Norplant
Classification
39. What is the name for depth perception cues made with both eyes?
Cross-modal perception
Binocular cues
Classical conditioning
Middle ear
40. Who made the first IQ test?
Perception
Invincibility fable
Alfred Binet
Dependent variable
41. One's wishes for the distribution of one's property and possessions after death
Cerebellum
A will
Cross-modal perception
Content validity
42. A signal to society that certain rules have changed - this person is no longer a child
Elaboration
Middle-old
Rite of Passage
Diaphragm
43. The ethical component of the personality and provides the moral standards by which the ego operates
Random assignment
Super Ego
Miscarriages or stillbirths
Qualitative
44. What is: sheath of thin latex designed to catch sperm upon ejaculation?
Cerebrospinal fluid
1 & 2
Condom
Dyscalcula
45. What is: the type of thought that has to do with factual information--trivia - vocabulary - science - history?
Positive Correlation
Crystallized intelligence
Egocentrism
Cephalocaudal and Proximodistal
46. Putting disabled students w/ normal students
Mainstreaming
6
Puberty
Put babies on their backs to sleep - and not have anything extra (toys - pillows etc) in the bed or crib.
47. A set of cases of people randomly chosen from a large group to represent that large group
It measures a child against their peers - in that moment
Sampling
More Knowledgeable Other (MKO)
1 & 2
48. Biological theories of aging: the number of cells that have problems or mutations that increase w/ age
Binocular cues
Bandura
Genetic Mutation
Socialization
49. Which stage of development is: Initiative vs. Guilt? (trying different roles)
Young Adult
Nature vs. nurture
Toxic shock syndrome
Preschooler
50. What is: your thoughts - beliefs - attitudes - and values
Developmental norm
Correlation coefficient
Bell would ring - then feed the dogs - Dogs would salivate when given food - Over time dogs began to salivate simply at ring of bell
Mental health