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DSST Lifespan Developmental Psychology
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Types of child play in chronological order:
Unoccupied behavior - onlooker - solitary independent (plays alone) - parallel play (plays around but not w/ others) - associative - cooperative play
The cloth monkey
Sexual orientation
Pavlov; classical conditioning
2. What is: the most developed - and largest (80%) - part of the brain?
Increase
Cerebral cortex
Cerebrospinal fluid
Not fully developed; but can distinguish color - track movement - and bright objects.
3. What is: expression of your maleness or femaleness on a daily basis?
As they age
Gender roles
Family therapy
Morphemes
4. All senses report to the thalamus except for one--which?
Mental health
Sudden Infant Death Syndrome
Olfactory sense
Smell
5. Does a somatic (body) cell have a full - or half - set of chromosomes?
Mental health
Full (46)
Intrinsic reinforcer
Pupil
6. Applied when a test measures something more than one facet
Gonads
10-14 months
Content validity
Behavioral
7. How many PAIRS of chromosomes do body cells have?
Alternative - or artificial - insemination
Genes
23 pairs
Cross Sectional Study
8. What is the most extreme outcome of a woman drinking during her pregnancy?
Commissures
Teratogens
Fetal death
Six months
9. The name most associated with operant conditioning is who?
Pavlov; classical conditioning
B.F. Skinner
Create and release chemicals into the blood
Mode
10. What is the ring of muscles that makes up the colored part of the eye?
Mainstreaming
Iris
Esteem needs
Divergent thinking
11. What is: a period in a child's development in which he/she is capable of understanding some things but not others
Stage
Freud
Cross-modal perception
Gender role stereotypes
12. In a child - can be expressed as 'nobody likes me'
Id
Have more bland personalities and often difficult for them to create and maintain intimate relationships as they have a lack of emotional depth
The penis doesn't grow and breasts may develop.
Childhood depression
13. True or False: Kohlberg believed that you go through each step of moral development one @ a time and could not skip them.
True
Intestate
Cones
William James
14. What kind of childbirth did Dr. Grantly Dick Read start teaching?
Abortion
Natural prepared childbirth
Gender identity
Binocular cues
15. In a study - the researchers have direct control over this variable
Extrinsic reinforcer
RU-486
Independent variable
Punishment
16. Second stage in the Kubler-Ross's Stages of Dying: 'This is unfair. Why me?'
2
Social development or social cognition
Alfred Binet
Anger (Emotion)
17. Which stage of development is: Industry vs. Inferiority? (working with others)
10-14 months
School-age Child
Stage 4
Psychological Tests
18. What is the study done to show that infants have depth perception?
Visual cliff
William James
Longitudinal Study
Depth perception
19. 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
Denial
The posterior (back) fontanel: within two months of birth. The anterior (front) fontanel: by the child's 2nd birthday.
Egocentric behavior
None!!
20. What two diseases - when caught early in the pregnancy - are most dangerous to the fetus?
Bargaining
Syphillis and rubella
Carl Rogers
Rubella
21. What is when the baby is born in a pool or bath with dim lights?
Bound morpheme
Cognitive theorist
Gentle birth
Celibacy
22. Who created the first scientific psychology laboratory?
Independent variable
Wilhelm Wundt
Critical period
The right hand - right eye - and speech
23. What kind of problem can it cause when a husband and wife have different blood types?
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24. When do the two fontanels harden?
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25. Recent research supports that children learn from listening to their parents talk to them in 'baby talk'; which aspect of language is this?
Midwife
Oral contraceptives
Conception
Social aspect of language
26. What percentage of children are affected by hyperactivity?
Carl Rogers
Natural prepared childbirth
Three percent
Frontal lobe
27. What is: areas of the body which - when touched - lead to sexual arousal?
Infant
Authoritarian
Erogenous zones
Young Adult
28. First step in Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs such as food water and shelter
The meanlinkk of utterance (how long their sentences are)
Physical needs
Modeling
Intestate
29. Rang the bell each time he fed the dog; eventually how early did the dogs start salivating?
Adrenal glands
Emotional neglect
As soon as the bell was rung
Resilient child
30. How much alcohol is the safe amount to consume during pregnancy?
None!!
Recall
Stage
Depo-Provera
31. What syndrome happens when a woman smokes while pregnant?
Wear-and-Tear Theory
Psychoanalytical
Fetal tobacco syndrome
Autonomic Nervous System
32. Who did the study between stimulus and response with dogs; and what did he discover?
Pavlov; classical conditioning
Preparatory Depression
Wilhelm Wundt
Experimental research
33. What determines physical traits and is inherited from one or both parents?
Lewis Terman
Gene
The posterior (back) fontanel: within two months of birth. The anterior (front) fontanel: by the child's 2nd birthday.
2
34. What do doctors agree is the best way to feed babies?
Adrenal glands
Virginia Apgar - or Apgar Rating
Sublimation
Breast-feeding
35. Theory that every function in the child's cultural development appears twice: first between people - then inside the child.
Social development or social cognition
1 & 2
Alternative - or artificial - insemination
Absolute threshold
36. Stage in which whether you will be punished or not determines what is moral or not - also called the punishment and obiedience phase
Stage 1
Sublimation
Monocular cues
Slowed growth - body/face malfunctions - nervous system disorders - mental retardation.
37. What is: the gland that controls release of hormones from the gonads?
Constant
Cooing
Pituitary gland
Critical period
38. Not physical abuse but when the child feels rejected or feels failure
Divergent thinking
Bias
Accommodation
Psychological maltreatment
39. What is the scientific name for the sense of smell?
Olfactory sense
Homosexual
Cerebral palsy
Phonemes
40. A morpheme that can be a word on its own
Self-report data
Outer ear
Lens
Free morpheme
41. Something pleasant used to make a behavior more likely
Temporal lobe
Wilhelm Wundt
Positive reinforcer
Placebo effect
42. A method of modifying behavior - by ignoring the behavior so you don't have the response
Three percent
Babbling
Response extinction
Psychoanalytic theory
43. Stages of friendship: autonomous - interdependent
Bandura
12+
99%
Through actions - doing what you believe is correct
44. What section of the nervous system is responsible for the 'fight or flight' response?
No
Autonomic Nervous System
Babbling
Biological
45. What is the method in which a variable and constant are use to test theories?
Stage 2
Abortion
School-age Child
Experimental research
46. 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?
Osteoporosis
Around age two
Preparatory Depression
Nurture
47. Disagreed w/ Kohlberg's Theory of Moral Development because his subjects were mainly male
Super Ego
Gilligan
Harry Harlow
Critical period
48. What thought process is supported by the example that: infants are given an object to hold - and then can recognize by sight the object.
Equilibrium
Cross-modal perception
Parietal lobe
Cognitive theorist
49. Time at which most children begin to speak actual words
10-14 months
Experimental research
Perception
Adrenal glands
50. Biological theories of aging: the number of cells that have problems or mutations that increase w/ age
Genetic Mutation
Zygote
Negative Correlation
Punishment