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DSST Lifespan Developmental Psychology
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1. First step in Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs such as food water and shelter
4-9
Dura mater
Self-report data
Physical needs
2. What is: sexual self-stimulation or masturbation?
Up to 6 months of observation by doctors
Autoerotic behavior
Stage
Raymond Cattell
3. Gilligan believed that Kholberg's theory described the male progression which she called the what?
Divergent thinking
Contraception
Mentally retarded
Morality of Justice
4. What thought process characterizes creative - gifted - or advanced children?
Bell would ring - then feed the dogs - Dogs would salivate when given food - Over time dogs began to salivate simply at ring of bell
Autism
Divergent thinkers
Dependent variable
5. What is the term for: a child's understanding that once you leave the room - you are not gone forever - etc.?
Object permanence
Alzheimer's Disease
Cerebellum
Naturalistic observation
6. What is: located in the limbic system - with primary function to store memories?
Hippocampus
Middle ear
Sexually transmitted diseases
Pia mater
7. What are the five areas of Apgar Rating - with scores of 0-2 in each?
Appearance - pulse - grimace (reflex) - activity - and respiration
Five
Crystallized intelligence
Cones
8. What are the four components of psychosocial health?
Spiritual - emotional - mental - and social health
Automatic
Operant conditioning
Young-old
9. Stages of friendship: Momentary playmates
9-15
Abstinence
Sexual identity
3-7
10. What percent of children in kindergarten are immunized?
Prenatal development
Raymond Cattell
99%
In vitro fertilization
11. The first experiment of classical conditioning was done by who?
Ivan Pavlov
Pituitary gland
Lewis Terman
Stage 6
12. The process of unassociating the condition with the response
Extinction
Gene
Base of the skull; size of a pea
Not fully developed; but can distinguish color - track movement - and bright objects.
13. Stages of friendship: intimate
Autonomic Nervous System
9-15
Intestate
Daydreaming
14. Stereotypes in genders; boys play with trucks and girls wear makeup - etc.
Dialectical perspective
The skull - dura mater membrane - arachnoid layer - and pia mater.
Explicit role instruction
Bandura
15. What is the characteristic that: you may be more interested in a person - rather than what she is saying?
Because at birth cells aren't well connected (lacking in myelin - or nerve insulation)
Obstetrician-gynecologist
Selective
Psychological Tests
16. What is the variable that the experimenter controls?
Bandura
Independent variable
Morality of Care
Cephalocaudal and Proximodistal
17. List the levels (in order) of Kohlberg's Theory of Moral Development
Kibbutz
Homophobia
Preconventional - conventional - postconventional
Cognitive
18. What is: the moment an ovum/egg is fertilized by sperm?
Conception
Depth perception
Authoritative
Harry Harlow
19. What are the three things to monitor - to measure temperament in infants?
Safety
Cognitive improvement
Stage 2
Irritability - social responsiveness - and activity level
20. A higher number of the correlation coefficient closer to the number one shows a:
Elaboration
Strong correlation
Condom
Stage 2
21. Biological theories of aging: as our bodies age - our immune systems become less effective at fighting disease - stress - etc.
Autoimmune Theory
Independent variable
90%
Full (46)
22. What is a sometimes-fatal disease occuring from the excessive use of tampons - or leaving a diaphragm in - for longer than prescribed time?
Social aspect of language
Toxic shock syndrome
Olfactory sense
Temporal lobe
23. Biological theories of aging: the number of cells that have problems or mutations that increase w/ age
Noise
Proximodistal
Humanistic Theorists
Genetic Mutation
24. 1 + 5 + 6. What is the mean?
Francis Bacon--16th century
4
Stage 2
Morality of Justice
25. What is: the belief that you are the center of the universe and everything revolves around you - and the inability to see the world as someone else does and adapt to it.
99%
Automatic
Amplitude
Egocentrism
26. Does a somatic (body) cell have a full - or half - set of chromosomes?
Ageism
Gerontology
Self-actualization
Full (46)
27. All senses report to the thalamus except for one--which?
Gilligan
Smell
Babbling
Best friend
28. What determines physical traits and is inherited from one or both parents?
Rationalization
Autism
Gene
Fetal death
29. What is the chance of having a boy or girl - according to Mendel's experiments in genetics?
Fluid intelligence and crystal intelligence
Suppression
50%
23 pairs
30. What is the term for the death of a child under one year - for no apparent reason?
Mental health
Sudden Infant Death Syndrome
Thalamus
Frequency
31. What is the ring of muscles that makes up the colored part of the eye?
Iris
Encoding the information - represnting the information - and retrieving information from memory.
Gender conservation
The skull - dura mater membrane - arachnoid layer - and pia mater.
32. John Bowlby felt that attachment held evolutionary purpose. Explain
First trimester
Six months
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
Thalamus
33. What is: when a sample is taken from the fluid in the amniotic sac - to be tested for diseases or genetic traits?
Esteem needs
Cerebellum
Amniocentesis
Kleinfelter Syndrome; male
34. What is the term for low IQ and mental age of about 4 years old?
Abstinence
Left hand - left eye - and simple comprehension
Long labors or birth complications
Mentally retarded
35. Categories of old age: 85+
Old-old
Phonemes
ADHD
Kubler-Ross's Stages of Dying
36. What is another term for the system of hearing?
Auditory System
Hour of love
Psychological Tests
Adolescent Egocentrism
37. When people w/in an experiment are assigned to a group randomly
Gonads
Random assignment
Free morpheme
Closure
38. All other variables w/in an experiment that researchers do not have control over
William James
Dependent variable
Rods
Divergent thinking
39. Children are most likely to achieve if parents:
Survey
Proximodistal
Set high standards - assist along the way
Clinical psychologist
40. What is: an M.D. who provides comprehensive care for people of all ages?
Naturalistic observation
Hurried-child
The right hand - right eye - and speech
Family practitioner
41. Method that teaches children to realized their full potential.
The Montessori Method
Sudden Infant Death Syndrome
Response extinction
Experimental group and control group
42. A disorder where the bones are weakened and become porous - like a sponge
As they age
Osteoporosis
Object permanence
Sweet - bitter - salty - sour
43. What is: your sense of being a man or woman as defined by society?
Zygote
Amniocentesis
Gender
Fetal tobacco syndrome
44. What are the two different classifications of intelligence?
Conception
Fluid intelligence and crystal intelligence
Operant conditioning
Set high standards - assist along the way
45. What are: chemicals designed to kill sperm?
Stillbirth
B.F. Skinner
Spermicides
Ego
46. A term used in research used to describe something measurable usually expressed as a number
Best friend
Quantitative
Qualitative
Experimental research
47. Putting disabled students w/ normal students
Cognitive improvement
Kibbutz
First trimester
Mainstreaming
48. What kind of problem can it cause when a husband and wife have different blood types?
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49. What is the simple type of learning for getting used to something?
Biological
All drugs - including over the counter - aspirin - coffee
Habituation
Fit in
50. The ethical component of the personality and provides the moral standards by which the ego operates
Positive Correlation
Super Ego
Psychometrics
Abstinence