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DSST Lifespan Developmental Psychology
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1. Stage in which you do what is right in order to gain status or approval from other people or society; 'good boy-good girl' orientation
Cerebellum
Corpus callosum
Freud
Stage 3
2. What is the clear membrane in front of the eye that protects it?
Chomsky
Automatic
Operation
Cornea
3. In the Harlow experiment: between the wire monkey+bottle - and cloth monkey+no bottle - which fake mother did the babies prefer?
The cloth monkey
Depo-Provera
Pitch
Teratology
4. What is: the period of sexual maturation?
Fetal death
None!!
Puberty
Oral contraceptives
5. Stage in which a person is concerned w/ how their action might affect society; the social contract orientation
Babbling
Stage 5
Skin appearance - 'age spots' - hair
Explicit role instruction
6. Gilligan believed that Kholberg's theory described the male progression which she called the what?
Pituitary gland
Accommodation
Classical conditioning works more to explain reflexive or unconscious reactions - Operant conditioning works to explain elective actions and reactions
Morality of Justice
7. 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
Sexual identity
Bisexual
Commissures
8. 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
Physical needs
Gerontology
Ego
Proximodistal
9. What is the main symptom of hyperactivity?
No correlation
Attention Deficit Disorder and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
Short attention span
Gender
10. Which stage of development is: Trust vs. Mistrust?
Permissive
Infant
Cerebrum
Self-efficacy
11. Defense mechanism: a type of displacement - a redirection of the feeling into a socially productive activity
Sublimation
Down syndrome
Self-report data
Morphemes
12. What is the drug to cause an abortion in the first 9 weeks of pregnancy?
Six months
Self-concept
Median
RU-486
13. Dying w/o a will
Intestate
Preconventional - conventional - postconventional
Androgynous
Rh positive
14. What thought process characterizes creative - gifted - or advanced children?
Wilhelm Wundt
3-7
Divergent thinkers
Correlational research
15. 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?
1 in 14 -000
Prenatal development
Operant conditioning
Family practitioner
16. How is ADHD diagnosed?
Celibacy
Up to 6 months of observation by doctors
Subject
Lewis Terman
17. Level 1 of Kohlberg's Theory of Moral Development
Outer ear
Left hand - left eye - and simple comprehension
Perception
Preconventional Morality
18. A morpheme that can be a word on its own
More Knowledgeable Other (MKO)
Three
Cognitive improvement
Free morpheme
19. What is: attraction to the opposite sex?
Informed consent
Heterosexual
Cephalocaudal
All drugs - including over the counter - aspirin - coffee
20. What are: the principles and standards of behavior - including morals; right/wrong and having one's actions correlate with their beliefs
Cognitive
Drugs - diseases (like HIV - rubella) - and pollutants (mercury - radiation - etc)
Ethics
Fluid intelligence and crystal intelligence
21. A number between +1 and -1 that measures the strength between two variables
Organ of corti
Correlation coefficient
Modeling
More Knowledgeable Other (MKO)
22. If a test measures what is meant to measure it is considered what?
Content validity
Vygotsky
Valid
Median
23. Gifted children often hide gifts to ______.
Functionalism
Outer ear
Teratology
Fit in
24. What is: the understanding of more advanced classification; that some sets are also sub-sets of a larger class?
Sexual orientation
Cross Sectional Study
Class inclusion
True
25. Defense mechanism: reverting to old behavior to avoid feelings
Regression
Endocrine system
Homosexual
Stage 6
26. How was the visual cliff study conducted?
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27. Who argued that classical conditioning explains some behaviors - but operant conditioning plays a much larger role?
B.F. Skinner
Convergent thinking
Perception
Kleinfelter Syndrome; male
28. Environment in which two (or more) children sit side by side - or near each other - and play without interacting with the other child or trying to influence them in any way. Most children engage in this type of enviornment.
Parallel play
Stage 5
Sound waves
Occipital - temporal - frontal - and parietal.
29. First element to Vygotsky's theory: what does social interaction facilitate?
Id - Ego - Super Ego
You need two - one from each parent - to conceive.
Natural observation
Cognitive improvement
30. What is the conception alternative where semen is deposited into the body via a thin tube?
Lens
Alternative - or artificial - insemination
Oral contraceptives
The cerebrum
31. The most direct measure of syntax in middle childhood is what?
The meanlinkk of utterance (how long their sentences are)
...
Freud
Skin appearance - 'age spots' - hair
32. How much is hearing developed in neonates?
Parietal lobe
Mostly developed by the time of birth
Naturalistic observation
Valid
33. Who created functionalism?
Biological
Id
Wear-and-Tear Theory
William James
34. What fluid covers the brain - and is used to transport chemicals and regulate pressure?
Cerebrospinal fluid
Naturalistic observation
Recall
Schema
35. What is: the amount of pressure produced by a sound wave - measured in decibels?
Erogenous zones
Organ of corti
Base of the skull; size of a pea
Amplitude
36. The best way to teach children values is?
4
Infertility
Through actions - doing what you believe is correct
Francis Bacon--16th century
37. A term used in research used to describe something measurable usually expressed as a number
Quantitative
Content validity
Fluid intelligence
Stage 2
38. A disorder where the bones are weakened and become porous - like a sponge
Toxic shock syndrome
Osteoporosis
The cloth monkey
Carl Rogers
39. Defense mechanism: you deny your feelings and come up with ways to justify your behavior
Up to 6 months of observation by doctors
Telegraphic speech
Rationalization
Natural observation
40. What syndrome occurs when someone two X and one Y chromosome...and what gender does this make?
Personality
Syphillis and rubella
Fontanels
Kleinfelter Syndrome; male
41. What section of the nervous system is responsible for the 'fight or flight' response?
Papillae
Informed consent
Freud
Autonomic Nervous System
42. What is the medical term for birth of a dead baby?
Loudness
Psychiatrist
John Bowlby's Attachment Theory
Stillbirth
43. What is being able to reproduce knowledge from memory?
Oral contraceptives
Recall
William James
Irritability - social responsiveness - and activity level
44. What is: the theory focused on the individual's unconscious motivations?
The meanlinkk of utterance (how long their sentences are)
Fetal alcohol syndrome
Psychoanalytical
School-age Child
45. How many PAIRS of chromosomes do body cells have?
Adolescent Egocentrism
23 pairs
Sudden Infant Death Syndrome
Hurried-child
46. Where are genes carried?
Correlation Research
Emotional health
On chromosomes
Up to 6 months of observation by doctors
47. How is IQ calculated?
Iris
Gentle birth
Bargaining
Mental age/Chronological age - x 100
48. Child's realization their sex will stay the same
Condom
Lewis Terman
Cerebrospinal fluid
Gender conservation
49. What is: focusing attention on a small amount of information?
As soon as the bell was rung
Selective attention
Infertility
Negative Correlation
50. What is: hatred and fear of homosexuals?
Homophobia
Operant conditioning
Subject
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