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DSST Lifespan Developmental Psychology
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1. 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
Heterosexual
Egocentric behavior
Teratology
Mode
2. Does a gamete (reproductive) cell have full or half set of chromosomes?
Smell
Content validity
Endocrine system
Half (23)
3. Who taught women breathing procedures to get through childbirth - including panting?
Conception
The brain
Occipital lobe
Ferdinand Lamaze
4. The average of a data set
Esteem needs
Mean
The brain stem
Six or seven months
5. What syndrome is characterized by small stature - poor coordination - hyperactive - learning disabilities - mental retardation - or large head?
...
IUD
Fetal Alcohol Syndrome
Alzheimer's Disease
6. What is the very critical period of the first 3 months in the womb?
The cerebrum
Prenatal development
Structuralism
Phonemes
7. When one variable increases while another variable decreases. We call this a what?
Negative Correlation
All drugs - including over the counter - aspirin - coffee
Gradually through shaping
Survey
8. One's wishes for the distribution of one's property and possessions after death
A will
Morality of Justice
9-15
Sexually transmitted diseases
9. What is the name for the bundles of axons - used to communicate between the two halves of brain?
Zygote
4-9
Commissures
Kibbutz
10. Stages of friendship: intimate
Negative reinforcer
Classical conditioning
9-15
Creative
11. Also called learning theory - based on the principle of observing and correcting behavior
Lewis Terman
Behaviorism
Spiritual health
Accommodation
12. What sends commands to all other parts of the body?
Excitement - plateau - orgasm - and resolution phases
Toxic shock syndrome
The brain stem
The cloth monkey
13. What is: when a person or animal responds to a neutral stimulus with a meaningful one
RU-486
5
Classical conditioning
Super Ego
14. Which stage of development is: Intimacy vs. Isolation? (emotional ties with others)
Young Adult
Punishment
IUD
Cut in half
15. What is the approach that assumes people organize their perceptions by patterns?
Elaboration
Gestalt psychology
Sexual identity
Loudness
16. A term used in research used to describe something measurable usually expressed as a number
Accommodation
Spiritual health
Quantitative
Permissive
17. What gland releases hormones that regulate hormone secretions of other glands?
Pons
Habituation
Mendel
Pituitary gland
18. A collection of data from all cases or people in the chosen set
Operant conditioning
A census
Intestate
Mostly developed by the time of birth
19. Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs consists of which steps?
Self-actualization - Esteem needs - Belonging and love - Safety - Physical needs
Preschooler
Gene
Id
20. 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.
Ivan Pavlov
Nature vs. nurture
Classical conditioning
Parallel play
21. What is the conception alternative where semen is deposited into the body via a thin tube?
Pituitary gland
Alternative - or artificial - insemination
Stage
Old Age
22. What disorder causes a person to have difficulty concentration - be easily distracted - or constantly in motion?
Alfred Binet
Independent variable
ADHD
Acceptance
23. What is the ring of muscles that makes up the colored part of the eye?
Iris
Loudness
None!!
The cloth monkey
24. What is the rating system to judge a baby's functionality when first born?
Denial
Virginia Apgar - or Apgar Rating
Valid
Autoimmune Theory
25. What attention disorders also interfere with the learning process?
Clinical psychologist
Stage 6
Attention Deficit Disorder and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
Recall
26. True or False: Kohlberg believed that you go through each step of moral development one @ a time and could not skip them.
Reaction Formation
True
Gestures
Kubler-Ross's Stages of Dying
27. What is the method of surgical delivery?
Cesarean birth
Rods
Chomsky
12+
28. Theory by Bandura; the interaction of a person's personality - the environment - and the behavior.
10
Sublimation
Mentally retarded
Reciprocal determinism
29. Gilligan believed that ________ conflicted between self and other - while ________ conflicted between self and justice
Women - men
Family therapy
Self-esteem
Morality of Justice
30. What is: the amount of pressure produced by a sound wave - measured in decibels?
Classical conditioning works more to explain reflexive or unconscious reactions - Operant conditioning works to explain elective actions and reactions
Mental health
Amplitude
Corpus callosum
31. What is: the realization that objects stay the same even when they are made to look different?
Conservation
Prenatal development
Cognitive theorist
Biological
32. What is a fertilized ovum or egg?
Commissures
Zygote
Wilhelm Wundt
Developmental norm
33. What are the 8 psychological approaches?
Biological; Behavioral; Cognitive; Humanistic; Psychoanalytical; Structuralism; Functionalism; Nature vs. Nurture
Divergent thinkers
Sublimation
Wilhelm Wundt
34. What is the name for depth perception cues made with one eye?
Preschooler
Monocular cues
Commissures
Personality
35. What is a learning disability in math - where concepts are learned one day and forgotten the next?
Family therapy
Resilient child
Dyscalcula
Stage 2
36. A child that is always in a hurry
Hurried-child
Spiritual health
Maslow
Reaction Formation
37. How is ADHD diagnosed?
Closure
Up to 6 months of observation by doctors
Creative
Carl Rogers
38. What is: the theory centered on studying how the mind is involved in knowing - learning - remembering - thinking; study how the mind relates to behavior
Permissive
Cognitive
Frequency
They can be coached into learning a type of test--do better or worse - etc.
39. 1 -3 -4 -5 -7 -8 -10 what is the median?
5
Self-efficacy
Zone of Proximal Development
Fit in
40. Level 1 of Kohlberg's Theory of Moral Development includes which stages
Binocular cues
Abstinence
1 & 2
Psychoanalytical
41. Second stage in the Kubler-Ross's Stages of Dying: 'This is unfair. Why me?'
Preparatory Depression
Fetal tobacco syndrome
Injections
Anger (Emotion)
42. Dying w/o a will
Self-efficacy
Intestate
On chromosomes
You need two - one from each parent - to conceive.
43. What is the name for the two halves of the brain?
Genes
Not fully developed; but can distinguish color - track movement - and bright objects.
Cerebrum
1 & 2
44. Therapy that involves the whole family
Family therapy
4
John Bowlby's Attachment Theory
Super Ego
45. How many PAIRS of chromosomes do body cells have?
23 pairs
Dyscalcula
Cesarean birth
Lens
46. Usually has a doctoral degree in psychology plus an internship; cannot prescribe medicine.
Encoding the information - represnting the information - and retrieving information from memory.
Clinical psychologist
Lewis Terman
Telegraphic speech
47. What is the name for the 'crack' in the middle of the brain halves?
Obstetrician-gynecologist - family practitioner - or midwife
Lens
Content validity
Longitudinal fissure
48. The awareness of being a male or female
Gene
Cognitive
The penis doesn't grow and breasts may develop.
Gender identity
49. What is: the theory that all people are inherently good and motivated to achieve their full potential
Humanistic
Timbre
Recognition
99%
50. What is a common learning disability in reading?
Rubella
Ego
Dyslexia
Timbre
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