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DSST Lifespan Developmental Psychology
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1. Fourth step in Maslow's Hierarchy of needs in which you begin to think about you self-esteem and how you feel as a person
The Montessori Method
Esteem needs
Because at birth cells aren't well connected (lacking in myelin - or nerve insulation)
Classical conditioning
2. Visible signs of aging include:
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3. What is the chance of a baby having PKU?
Acceptance
Down syndrome
Babbling
1 in 14 -000
4. Third step in Maslow's Hierarchy of needs in which you may want to meet needs of belongings and love through relationships
Freud
Equilibrium
Sampling
Belonging and love
5. What is: a mix of gender identity - gender roles - and orientation; recognition of ourselves as sexual beings.
Dialectical perspective
Endocrine system
Gonads
Sexual identity
6. What is the variable that the experimenter controls?
Social development or social cognition
Depo-Provera
Independent variable
Old-old
7. Second stage in the Kubler-Ross's Stages of Dying: 'This is unfair. Why me?'
Ivan Pavlov
Negative reinforcer
Anger (Emotion)
Natural prepared childbirth
8. Why is autism rare in children for the first 2 1/2 years?
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9. Where a group of people live together and the children of all the people are raised by one or two people
Perception
Amplitude
Kibbutz
Gender role stereotypes
10. A type of research done inside of a lab - selected to monitor specific biological changes in individuals by using expensive and sophisticated machinery
Laboratory observation
Explicit role instruction
Outer ear
Watching their parents
11. What is: dynamic blend of our experiences - heredity - environment - etc. which determines how we react to problems/issues?
Sound waves
Set high standards - assist along the way
Adolescent Egocentrism
Personality
12. Also called learning theory - based on the principle of observing and correcting behavior
Selective
Behaviorism
Punishment
Binocular cues
13. When do children develop object permanence?
Stage 5
Around age two
Adrenal glands
Fetal death
14. What are the three different areas of the Autonomic Nervous System?
Sympathetic - parasympathetic - and enteric
Hour of love
Reaction Formation
Carl Rogers
15. Who did the study between stimulus and response with dogs; and what did he discover?
IUD
Pavlov; classical conditioning
Divergent thinking
Depo-Provera
16. Parenting styles: makes few demands - hardly ever punishes
Permissive
Stimulus generalization
Bargaining
Ethics
17. What are: general term for the reproductive organs in a male or female?
Free morpheme
23 pairs
Gonads
Carl Rogers
18. A way of obtaining information about a specific type of information in which questionnaires are given out to participants who are then asked to answer the questions to the best of their ability
Iris
Survey
Cross-modal perception
Parietal lobe
19. The first experiment of classical conditioning was done by who?
Peer group
Dialectical perspective
Ivan Pavlov
Stage 2
20. What is: the method to prevent an egg and sperm from being able to access each other?
Automatic
Selera
Contraception
Longitudinal Study
21. Children are most likely to achieve if parents:
Set high standards - assist along the way
Erogenous zones
Quantitative
Maslow
22. What is another term for the system of hearing?
Autonomic Nervous System
Cerebrospinal fluid
Family therapy
Auditory System
23. Something pleasant used to make a behavior more likely
Visual cliff
Positive reinforcer
Full (46)
Young-old
24. What is: a state of mental balance - reconciling new experiences with new understanding
Stage 4
9-15
Equilibrium
Autonomic Nervous System
25. What is the sense that gives information about balance and body movement? (if your body is moving - tilting - etc.)
Injections
Vestibular sense
99%
1) Gather info - 2) Generate hypothesis - 3) Test hypothesis - 4) Revise
26. Age at which most children will identify specific 'best-friends'
Left hand - left eye - and simple comprehension
Mentally retarded
10
Kibbutz
27. What is the medical term for birth of a dead baby?
Pia mater
Five
Create and release chemicals into the blood
Stillbirth
28. What are the four components of psychosocial health?
Strong correlation
Self-actualization
Spiritual - emotional - mental - and social health
Rods
29. What is: attraction to the opposite sex?
Operant conditioning
Autism
Three
Heterosexual
30. Rogers and Maslow are both:
Humanistic Theorists
Unoccupied behavior - onlooker - solitary independent (plays alone) - parallel play (plays around but not w/ others) - associative - cooperative play
Autonomic Nervous System
Maslow
31. Who created structuralism?
Gentle birth
Positive reinforcer
Wilhelm Wundt
Short attention span
32. Rang the bell each time he fed the dog; eventually how early did the dogs start salivating?
6-12
Emergency contraception
Permissive
As soon as the bell was rung
33. Defined as diseases which are either related to or caused by a sedentary lifestyle - in other words - caused by the lack of regular exercise or activity
Median
Puberty
Hypokinetic diseases
Allow the skull's plates of bone to shift or flex - making childbirth easier.
34. Which protective brain layer is the strongest and thickest?
Zygote
Cut in half
IUD
Dura mater
35. A test that gives information about a participant including standardized tests such as aptitude - interest - and personality tests
Half (23)
Breast-feeding
Psychological Tests
Equilibrium
36. Who made the first IQ test?
Independent variable
Half (23)
Consciousness
Alfred Binet
37. What is the term for: a child's understanding that once you leave the room - you are not gone forever - etc.?
Abstinence
Object permanence
Behavioral
1 & 2
38. Which lobe is related to hearing?
Psychoanalytical
Temporal lobe
Alzheimer's Disease
Response extinction
39. When one variable increase - another variable increases. We call this a what?
Qualitative
Slowed growth - body/face malfunctions - nervous system disorders - mental retardation.
Positive Correlation
5
40. What syndrome is characterized by small stature - poor coordination - hyperactive - learning disabilities - mental retardation - or large head?
Fetal Alcohol Syndrome
Stage
Norplant
Operation
41. What is: the theory to investigate the elements or 'structures' of the mind; classify structures and focus on conscious thought
Structuralism
Placebo effect
First trimester
Negative reinforcer
42. What is: the theory focused on the individual's unconscious motivations?
Through actions - doing what you believe is correct
Frequency
Selective attention
Psychoanalytical
43. Stage at which children are egocentric and will therefore think divorce is their fault
Condom
Correlation Research
Egocentric behavior
Preoperational stage (ages 3-6)
44. What is the part of the ear that includes the oval window - cochlea - and organ of Corti?
Inner ear
Up to 6 months of observation by doctors
Sympathetic nervous system
Hypothalamus
45. What is the white part of the eye that protects and manages the shape of the eye?
Selera
As soon as the bell was rung
Consciousness
Half (23)
46. What is: areas of the body which - when touched - lead to sexual arousal?
Erogenous zones
Random assignment
Divergent thinkers
Genes
47. What is: the theory centered on behavior; see person as blank slate upon which impressions of experiences can be recorded.
Behavioral
William James
ADHD
Correlation Research
48. Which stage of development is: Intimacy vs. Isolation? (emotional ties with others)
Young Adult
Gender roles
Divergent thinking
Cooing
49. What are the five areas of Apgar Rating - with scores of 0-2 in each?
Operant conditioning
Base of the skull; size of a pea
Structuralism
Appearance - pulse - grimace (reflex) - activity - and respiration
50. What is the name of the largest commissure?
Autism
Gender identity
Stage 3
Corpus callosum
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