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DSST Lifespan Developmental Psychology
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1. What are the three parts of memory?
1) Gather info - 2) Generate hypothesis - 3) Test hypothesis - 4) Revise
Encoding the information - represnting the information - and retrieving information from memory.
Mendel
Schema
2. The variable in which the researcher has direct control over
Thalamus
Self-actualization - Esteem needs - Belonging and love - Safety - Physical needs
Independent variable
Free morpheme
3. Defense mechanism: transferring your thoughts and feelings onto others
Projection
Obstetrician-gynecologist
Quantitative
Fluid intelligence
4. When someone sees an incomplete form - they fill in the pieces and perceive it as it would be that way. What Gestalt principle is this an example of?
Short attention span
5 & 6
Closure
Schema
5. In a study - the researchers have direct control over this variable
Valid
Independent variable
Cognitive
Base of the skull; size of a pea
6. Applied when a test measures something more than one facet
Psychological Tests
Free morpheme
Double blind
Content validity
7. A method of modifying behavior - by ignoring the behavior so you don't have the response
Rubella
Ethics
Occipital lobe
Response extinction
8. Stages of friendship: Momentary playmates
3-7
Wilhelm Wundt
Frontal lobe
The meanlinkk of utterance (how long their sentences are)
9. Stages of friendship: intimate
Fetal death
9-15
Oral contraceptives
Ego
10. A disorder where the bones are weakened and become porous - like a sponge
Telegraphic speech
Gestalt psychology
Osteoporosis
Young-old
11. What is: long lasting contraceptive where six capsules are injected in a woman's arm?
Norplant
Adolescent
Hypothalamus
Stage 1
12. What is the sense that gives information about balance and body movement? (if your body is moving - tilting - etc.)
Vestibular sense
Visual cliff
Accommodation
Short attention span
13. What is: growth from the head downward (head develops before rest of the body)?
Selera
Cephalocaudal
1 & 2
Timbre
14. How was the visual cliff study conducted?
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15. What is: the period of sexual maturation?
Papillae
Cognitive
Puberty
Operant conditioning
16. 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
Alfred Binet
Convergent thinking
Pituitary gland
Esteem needs
17. What is: another form of consciousness involving very little effort; dreaming while awake or letting the mind wander?
Autism
Daydreaming
Dura mater
Independent variable
18. Who introduced the scientific method?
Francis Bacon--16th century
Experimental group and control group
Six or seven months
Punishment
19. Why are IQ scores only accurate for short periods of time?
It measures a child against their peers - in that moment
Pia mater
Fetal Alcohol Syndrome
Biological
20. What is: sheath of thin latex designed to catch sperm upon ejaculation?
Condom
Semantics
Projection
Teratology
21. What is: attraction to both sexes?
Francis Bacon--16th century
Visual cliff
Wilhelm Wundt
Bisexual
22. What is caused by one extra chromosome in the number 21?
Pituitary gland
No
Stage 6
Down syndrome
23. Which lobe is related to voluntary muscles and intelligence?
Frontal lobe
Cut in half
Acceptance
Not fully developed; but can distinguish color - track movement - and bright objects.
24. What is the name for the awareness of external and internal events?
Three percent
Consciousness
Cellular Theory
Outer ear
25. What regulates internal temperature - eating - sleeping - drinking - emotions - and sexual activity?
Lewis Terman
Jean Piaget
Hypothalamus
Psychoanalytic theory
26. What is: structures in the cerebral cortex related to memory and emotion?
Limbic system
Stage 6
Humanistic
Selera
27. What is another term for the system of hearing?
Auditory System
Super Ego
Critical period
The brain
28. What is: sexual self-stimulation or masturbation?
Pons
Conceive at younger ages
Autoerotic behavior
Sweet - bitter - salty - sour
29. Believed each person had an idea of a 'perfect person' and tried to work towards being like that person as much as possible - believing that people needed to become 'fully functioning' individuals
Carl Rogers
9-15
Genes
Rh positive
30. Theory that language abilities devlop innately; there must be some mechanism in the brain which aids in language acquisition; who came up with this theory?
Negative reinforcer
Chomsky
Drugs - diseases (like HIV - rubella) - and pollutants (mercury - radiation - etc)
Pia mater
31. Who did the study between stimulus and response with dogs; and what did he discover?
Cerebral cortex
Biological
Pavlov; classical conditioning
Autism
32. The study of the aging process
Elaboration
Gerontology
Androgynous
Adolescent
33. A term used in research used to describe something measurable usually expressed as a number
Quantitative
Sterilization
Reinforcer
Behaviorism
34. What percent of children in kindergarten are immunized?
99%
Class inclusion
Sexual orientation
Auditory System
35. What is the method in which a variable and constant are use to test theories?
Reinforcer
Experimental research
Fluid intelligence and crystal intelligence
Id
36. Biological theories of aging: we only have a certain number of cells - which are programmed to only replicate so many times before they are finished and the body begins to deteriorate
They were not scientifically performed
Cellular Theory
Automatic - selective - contextual - and creative
Stillbirth
37. Those who are mentally retarded are least likely to also have WHAT condition?
Phenylketonuria (PKU)
Cerebral palsy
Social health
Set high standards - assist along the way
38. What is being able to reproduce knowledge from memory?
Pituitary gland
Gender roles
Recall
Parallel play
39. Who made the first IQ test?
Alfred Binet
Holophrase syntax
Dyscalcula
True
40. What is the method of surgical delivery?
Young-old
The Premack Principle
Contraception
Cesarean birth
41. Children that are raised on the Kibbutz are used to study the effects of what?
Automatic
Francis Bacon--16th century
Family situation - the world around you - lifespan - and maturity.
Multiple caretakers
42. What is: hatred and fear of homosexuals?
Homophobia
Gender
Reinforcer
Abortion
43. 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
Reaction Formation
Hypokinetic diseases
Five
Kibbutz
44. What are: vibrations in the air that we receive through the ear to be processed?
Sound waves
Depth perception
Stage 5
Esteem needs
45. What is: the theory focused on 'how' of behavior; minds are a continuous flow of information about experiences - and role is to study the mind/behavior as they adapt to the environment
Accommodation
Reinforcer
Cerebral palsy
Functionalism
46. What are the two different classifications of intelligence?
Parallel play
Wilhelm Wundt
Fluid intelligence and crystal intelligence
Autoerotic behavior
47. Removing something unpleasant from a situation - to make a behavior more likely
Negative reinforcer
B.F. Skinner
Intrinsic reinforcer
Gender role stereotypes
48. Four steps of the scientific method include:
Puberty
1) Gather info - 2) Generate hypothesis - 3) Test hypothesis - 4) Revise
Operant conditioning
The brain/the cerebral cortex
49. Which though process is follower thinking?
Gentle birth
Hypokinetic diseases
Convergent thinking
Anger (Emotion)
50. The average of a data set
Informed consent
Developmental norm
Kibbutz
Mean
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