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DSST Lifespan Developmental Psychology

Subjects : dsst, psychology
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1. A medical doctor with a degree who specializes in psychotherapy - who can prescribe drugs






2. A number between +1 and -1 that measures the strength between two variables






3. What is the most popular method for giving birth?






4. What houses memories and controls our responses to different sensory signals?






5. Level 3 of Kohlberg's Theory of Moral Development includes which stages






6. What syndrome occurs when someone two X and one Y chromosome...and what gender does this make?






7. A test that gives information about a participant including standardized tests such as aptitude - interest - and personality tests






8. What percent of children in kindergarten are immunized?






9. What is the name for minimum amount of something we can detect or sense?






10. What is: the moment an ovum/egg is fertilized by sperm?






11. What is the name for the awareness of external and internal events?






12. Dying w/o a will






13. The process of unassociating the condition with the response






14. What is the factor that always stays the same?






15. What is: irrelevant stimuli that compete for our attention (like traffic)






16. Stage in which you see the right action as what satisfies your personal needs; a person becomes aware of two different viewpoints






17. What fluid covers the brain - and is used to transport chemicals and regulate pressure?






18. Defense mechanism in which complete rejection of the feeling or situation






19. Did a longitudinal study that showed that smart kids are happy adults






20. Which thought process is a creative process?






21. In a case study - a single individual called a _____ is intensely studied






22. Second development of language - still pre-speech; repetition of meaningful sounds






23. What is: the process by which a society identifies its expectations?






24. Those who are mentally retarded are least likely to also have WHAT condition?






25. What is: the ear's interpretation of a sound's frequency






26. Types of child play in chronological order:






27. The ethical component of the personality and provides the moral standards by which the ego operates






28. What is: the realization that objects stay the same even when they are made to look different?






29. What coordinates all movements and muscles?






30. Rogers and Maslow are both:






31. An environment where children live and attend school






32. Experiment where researchers made a baby afraid of rats through classical conditioning






33. What are the two parts responsible for bending light and focusing it in the back of the eye?






34. Stage in which a person makes decisions according to his or her conscience; the universal ethical principal orientation; not many people ever reach this stage






35. Applied when a test measures something more than one facet






36. Stage in which a person is concerned w/ how their action might affect society; the social contract orientation






37. List the levels (in order) of Kohlberg's Theory of Moral Development






38. What is: attraction to the same sex?






39. Individual sounds w/ in a word






40. What is the middle number in a set of data called?






41. Chomsky believed that the ability to develop language skills was inherited in ______.






42. All senses report to the thalamus except for one--which?






43. Visible signs of aging include:

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44. What is: the tone color or perceptual quality of a sound?






45. What is the method to find the amount that one variable changes in relation to another?






46. Stage in which a person abides by the law because they think that law is a higher order; laws cannot be broken under any circumstance; social-order-maintaining orientation






47. What gland releases hormones that regulate hormone secretions of other glands?






48. Who founded the Hierarchy of Needs theory?






49. What attention disorders also interfere with the learning process?






50. A system which uses operant conditioning to make less probable actions more likely to occur by using more probable actions as reinforcers