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DSST Lifespan Developmental Psychology
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. A medical doctor with a degree who specializes in psychotherapy - who can prescribe drugs
Psychiatrist
Half (23)
Hypokinetic diseases
Pupil
2. A number between +1 and -1 that measures the strength between two variables
12+
Cerebral cortex
Correlation coefficient
Adolescent Egocentrism
3. What is the most popular method for giving birth?
The more accurate the result
Osteoporosis
Medicated delivery
Autoimmune Theory
4. What houses memories and controls our responses to different sensory signals?
The cerebrum
Gender
Classification
Depth perception
5. Level 3 of Kohlberg's Theory of Moral Development includes which stages
Reciprocal determinism
99%
5 & 6
Belonging and love
6. What syndrome occurs when someone two X and one Y chromosome...and what gender does this make?
Kleinfelter Syndrome; male
Subjects may be dishonest w/ their answers
Correlation coefficient
6-12
7. A test that gives information about a participant including standardized tests such as aptitude - interest - and personality tests
Psychological Tests
Morality of Care
Fluid intelligence and crystal intelligence
Sympathetic - parasympathetic - and enteric
8. What percent of children in kindergarten are immunized?
Displacement
Miscarriages or stillbirths
Androgynous
99%
9. What is the name for minimum amount of something we can detect or sense?
Base of the skull; size of a pea
Absolute threshold
Monozygotic twins
6
10. What is: the moment an ovum/egg is fertilized by sperm?
Independent variable
Humanistic Theorists
Independent variable
Conception
11. What is the name for the awareness of external and internal events?
Consciousness
None!!
4-9
Papillae
12. Dying w/o a will
Biological; Behavioral; Cognitive; Humanistic; Psychoanalytical; Structuralism; Functionalism; Nature vs. Nurture
Occipital lobe
Intestate
Morphemes
13. The process of unassociating the condition with the response
Perception
Family situation - the world around you - lifespan - and maturity.
B.F. Skinner
Extinction
14. What is the factor that always stays the same?
Accommodation
Constant
1 in 14 -000
The right hand - right eye - and speech
15. What is: irrelevant stimuli that compete for our attention (like traffic)
Baby Albert
Preschooler
Noise
Punishment
16. Stage in which you see the right action as what satisfies your personal needs; a person becomes aware of two different viewpoints
Cephalocaudal
Egocentric behavior
Stage 2
Operant conditioning
17. What fluid covers the brain - and is used to transport chemicals and regulate pressure?
Sexual identity
Correlation Research
Cerebrospinal fluid
Cerebellum
18. Defense mechanism in which complete rejection of the feeling or situation
Denial
Outer ear
The right hand - right eye - and speech
Emotional neglect
19. Did a longitudinal study that showed that smart kids are happy adults
Sound waves
Lewis Terman
Dura mater
3-7
20. Which thought process is a creative process?
5 & 6
It measures a child against their peers - in that moment
Midwife
Divergent thinking
21. In a case study - a single individual called a _____ is intensely studied
5
Fit in
Classification
Subject
22. Second development of language - still pre-speech; repetition of meaningful sounds
Freud
Babbling
Sweet - bitter - salty - sour
The brain/the cerebral cortex
23. What is: the process by which a society identifies its expectations?
Psychological Tests
Structuralism
Socialization
Accommodation
24. Those who are mentally retarded are least likely to also have WHAT condition?
Base of the skull; size of a pea
Cerebral palsy
Harry Harlow
Automatic - selective - contextual - and creative
25. What is: the ear's interpretation of a sound's frequency
Cephalocaudal and Proximodistal
Pitch
Emergency contraception
Cochlea
26. Types of child play in chronological order:
Kleinfelter Syndrome; male
Unoccupied behavior - onlooker - solitary independent (plays alone) - parallel play (plays around but not w/ others) - associative - cooperative play
Pituitary gland
Strong correlation
27. The ethical component of the personality and provides the moral standards by which the ego operates
3-7
Stage
Classification
Super Ego
28. What is: the realization that objects stay the same even when they are made to look different?
It measures a child against their peers - in that moment
Cross-modal perception
Stage 1
Conservation
29. What coordinates all movements and muscles?
Endocrine system
Cerebellum
Psychoanalytical
Diaphragm
30. Rogers and Maslow are both:
Consciousness
The brain stem
Six months
Humanistic Theorists
31. An environment where children live and attend school
Peer group
Binocular cues
Gilligan
Modeling
32. Experiment where researchers made a baby afraid of rats through classical conditioning
Baby Albert
IUD
Classification
Autonomic Nervous System
33. What are the two parts responsible for bending light and focusing it in the back of the eye?
Safety
Cornea and lens
Assimilation
Set high standards - assist along the way
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
Stage 6
Cooing
Monocular cues
Adolescent Egocentrism
35. Applied when a test measures something more than one facet
You need two - one from each parent - to conceive.
Encoding the information - represnting the information - and retrieving information from memory.
Content validity
Gender roles
36. Stage in which a person is concerned w/ how their action might affect society; the social contract orientation
Stage 5
Morphemes
The meanlinkk of utterance (how long their sentences are)
Kubler-Ross's Stages of Dying
37. List the levels (in order) of Kohlberg's Theory of Moral Development
William James
Auditory System
Preconventional - conventional - postconventional
Cornea
38. What is: attraction to the same sex?
Modeling
Selective attention
Homosexual
On chromosomes
39. Individual sounds w/ in a word
Phonemes
Constant
Mainstreaming
Corpus callosum
40. What is the middle number in a set of data called?
Median
Stage 1
Humanistic Theorists
Left hand - left eye - and simple comprehension
41. Chomsky believed that the ability to develop language skills was inherited in ______.
Genes
They were not scientifically performed
Phonemes
Fetal tobacco syndrome
42. All senses report to the thalamus except for one--which?
Virginia Apgar - or Apgar Rating
Random assignment
90%
Smell
43. Visible signs of aging include:
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44. What is: the tone color or perceptual quality of a sound?
As soon as the bell was rung
Timbre
Rods
Bias
45. What is the method to find the amount that one variable changes in relation to another?
Oral contraceptives
Correlational research
Three
Accommodation
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
Stage 6
Irritability - social responsiveness - and activity level
Accommodation
Stage 4
47. What gland releases hormones that regulate hormone secretions of other glands?
Gonads
Pituitary gland
Stage 6
90%
48. Who founded the Hierarchy of Needs theory?
Preschooler
Divergent thinking
Maslow
Biological
49. What attention disorders also interfere with the learning process?
They can be coached into learning a type of test--do better or worse - etc.
Three percent
Bisexual
Attention Deficit Disorder and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
50. A system which uses operant conditioning to make less probable actions more likely to occur by using more probable actions as reinforcers
Mean
The Premack Principle
True
Middle-old