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DSST Lifespan Developmental Psychology
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1. Defense mechanism: hiding the feelings and not acknowledging them
Adrenal glands
Suppression
Divergent thinkers
Epinephrine and norepinephrine
2. What is: the part of the ear inside the cochlea; contains sensors that change energy into impulses to be decoded by the brain?
Erik Erikson
Valid
Naturalistic observation
Organ of corti
3. What are: chemicals designed to kill sperm?
Longitudinal fissure
Subjects may be dishonest w/ their answers
Spermicides
In vitro fertilization
4. Therapy that involves the whole family
Family therapy
Mendel
Classical conditioning
Midwife
5. Parenting styles: 'because I say so'--more prevalent in lower-class families
Authoritarian
Slowed growth - body/face malfunctions - nervous system disorders - mental retardation.
Hypokinetic diseases
Unoccupied behavior - onlooker - solitary independent (plays alone) - parallel play (plays around but not w/ others) - associative - cooperative play
6. Level 1 of Kohlberg's Theory of Moral Development
Sublimation
Preconventional Morality
As soon as the bell was rung
Outer ear
7. What is: a period in a child's development in which he/she is capable of understanding some things but not others
Reinforcer
The more accurate the result
Stage
Gestures
8. What is the least developed part of a newborn (growth is not complete)?
Oral contraceptives
Sexually transmitted diseases
The brain/the cerebral cortex
Emotional health
9. What is another name for a sound wave's amplitude?
Naturalistic observation
Left hand - left eye - and simple comprehension
Loudness
Hospice
10. When people of different ages are studied at one particular time
Cross Sectional Study
2
Content validity
Family therapy
11. Third step in Maslow's Hierarchy of needs in which you may want to meet needs of belongings and love through relationships
Hippocampus
Belonging and love
Adolescent
Old Age
12. Aside from learning disabilities - what physical problem do Kleinfelter people have?
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13. What is: term for how much someone values and respects themselves?
Super Ego
Self-esteem
Appearance - pulse - grimace (reflex) - activity - and respiration
Humanistic
14. What is: a person's attraction to other people?
Stimulus generalization
Sexual orientation
Accommodation
Correlation coefficient
15. What are: the harmful substances to a developing fetus?
Sublimation
Positive reinforcer
Punishment
Teratogens
16. What is the conception alternative where fertilization of the egg is done outside the body - and then transferred back into the body?
In vitro fertilization
Mostly developed by the time of birth
Ivan Pavlov
Operant conditioning
17. The number which occurs the most often
Mode
Gerontology
Stage 3
Ego
18. What is the method to find the amount that one variable changes in relation to another?
Correlational research
Gender roles
5 & 6
Contraception
19. All senses report to the thalamus except for one--which?
IUD
Fetal Alcohol Syndrome
The skull - dura mater membrane - arachnoid layer - and pia mater.
Smell
20. What is: expression of your maleness or femaleness on a daily basis?
Preconventional Morality
Gender roles
Timbre
Injections
21. What is the term for fraternal twins?
Old-old
Dizygotic twins
Biological
Cross-modal perception
22. What is the name for the awareness of external and internal events?
Temporal lobe
12+
Spiritual - emotional - mental - and social health
Consciousness
23. What 4 main problems do fetal alcohol syndrome cause?
Dyscalcula
Slowed growth - body/face malfunctions - nervous system disorders - mental retardation.
Mental health
Mean
24. What is: growth from the center (spine) outward - where vital organs form before the extremities?
Sublimation
Proximodistal
Weak correlation
Mostly developed by the time of birth
25. Stages of friendship: intimate
Biological; Behavioral; Cognitive; Humanistic; Psychoanalytical; Structuralism; Functionalism; Nature vs. Nurture
Selective attention
First trimester
9-15
26. What is the medical means to terminate a pregnancy?
Egocentric behavior
Abortion
Wilhelm Wundt
Accommodation
27. What is the method in which a variable and constant are use to test theories?
Psychoanalytical
Infant
Experimental research
Rh positive
28. Piaget believed that the individual actively constructs knowledge about the world--what is the term for this?
Reaction Formation
Multiple caretakers
Stage 3
Cognitive theorist
29. 1 + 5 + 6. What is the mean?
Alzheimer's Disease
4
Six months
Attention Deficit Disorder and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
30. There are usually two groups in an experiment - titled:
1 & 2
Pia mater
Experimental group and control group
Mental health
31. True or False: Kohlberg believed that you go through each step of moral development one @ a time and could not skip them.
Cerebral palsy
Cerebellum
True
Frequency
32. What is the name for the two halves of the brain?
They were not scientifically performed
Psychological maltreatment
Preconventional - conventional - postconventional
Cerebrum
33. What is when the baby is born in a pool or bath with dim lights?
Cognitive improvement
Gentle birth
Constant
Loudness
34. 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
The Montessori Method
Reaction Formation
Hypokinetic diseases
Thalamus
35. 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
Jean Piaget
Selective
Projection
Functionalism
36. What two things make up the central nervous system?
Five
Egocentrism
Brain and spinal cord
Full (46)
37. Four steps of the scientific method include:
1) Gather info - 2) Generate hypothesis - 3) Test hypothesis - 4) Revise
No correlation
Perception
Equilibrium
38. Third element: There is a gap between what the child can do with help - and what they can do on their own; shows when a child has finally learned it
99%
Convergent thinking
Pavlov; classical conditioning
Zone of Proximal Development
39. What is: located in the limbic system - with primary function to store memories?
Conception
Hippocampus
Egocentric behavior
Critical period
40. Self-aware - recognized - defined
Deferred imitation
Self-concept
Abortion
Skin appearance - 'age spots' - hair
41. Age at with children start feeling a fear of the dark - which can be strong and appear suddenly
Attention Deficit Disorder and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
The brain stem
6
Intrinsic reinforcer
42. What is the white part of the eye that protects and manages the shape of the eye?
Opens and closes to let the correct amount of light in
Osteoporosis
Spiritual health
Selera
43. What is the name for the 'crack' in the middle of the brain halves?
Informed consent
Longitudinal fissure
Holophrase syntax
Timbre
44. What is: sheath of thin latex designed to catch sperm upon ejaculation?
Condom
Sexually transmitted diseases
Response extinction
Pupil
45. The distortion of the results
Modeling
Slowed growth - body/face malfunctions - nervous system disorders - mental retardation.
Bias
True
46. The ethical component of the personality and provides the moral standards by which the ego operates
Preparatory Depression
Super Ego
Morphemes
Psychoanalytical
47. Which thought process is a creative process?
Automatic
Gerontology
Morphemes
Divergent thinking
48. What section of the nervous system is responsible for the 'fight or flight' response?
3 & 4
Explicit role instruction
1 & 2
Autonomic Nervous System
49. 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.
Obstetrician-gynecologist - family practitioner - or midwife
Autoerotic behavior
Egocentrism
Babbling
50. Which lobe is related to vision?
Smell
Occipital lobe
Osteoporosis
Natural observation