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DSST Lifespan Developmental Psychology
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1. Rang the bell each time he fed the dog; eventually how early did the dogs start salivating?
Conception
Preparatory Depression
Auditory System
As soon as the bell was rung
2. Fourth stage in the Kubler-Ross's Stages of Dying: 'There's nothing I can do about this'
Rh positive
Negative reinforcer
Preparatory Depression
Watching their parents
3. What is the main difference between classical and operant conditioning?
Classical conditioning works more to explain reflexive or unconscious reactions - Operant conditioning works to explain elective actions and reactions
Freud
Brain and spinal cord
Double blind
4. Which protective brain layer is the strongest and thickest?
Sudden Infant Death Syndrome
Unoccupied behavior - onlooker - solitary independent (plays alone) - parallel play (plays around but not w/ others) - associative - cooperative play
John Watson
Dura mater
5. Usually has a doctoral degree in psychology plus an internship; cannot prescribe medicine.
Clinical psychologist
Psychoanalytical
1) Gather info - 2) Generate hypothesis - 3) Test hypothesis - 4) Revise
Absolute threshold
6. How much alcohol is the safe amount to consume during pregnancy?
None!!
Suppression
Pia mater
Emotional health
7. A higher number of the correlation coefficient closer to the number one shows a:
Pituitary gland
Ageism
Strong correlation
Endocrine system
8. There are usually two groups in an experiment - titled:
Vestibular sense
Experimental group and control group
Divergent thinkers
Cross-modal perception
9. What is: attraction to the same sex?
Neonate
Spermicides
Homosexual
Increase
10. What is: a progesterone shot given every three months?
Absolute threshold
Closure
Depo-Provera
Ageism
11. The integrator between the outer and inner worlds - as well as the id and the superego. Gives continuity and consistency to behavior by providing a personal point of reference - which relates to the events of the past and actions of the present and o
Parasympathetic
Jean Piaget
Six or seven months
Ego
12. Self-esteem begins forming in:
Experimental group and control group
True
Depth perception
Middle childhood
13. Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs consists of which steps?
Self-actualization - Esteem needs - Belonging and love - Safety - Physical needs
In vitro fertilization
Noise
Occipital - temporal - frontal - and parietal.
14. The negative effects of sensory deprivation (not as much attention) are more likely to _______ w/ the length of the stage.
Emergency contraception
Maslow
Harry Harlow
Increase
15. When one variable increase - another variable increases. We call this a what?
It measures a child against their peers - in that moment
Experimental group and control group
Egocentric behavior
Positive Correlation
16. The variable in which the researcher has direct control over
Independent variable
Jean Piaget
Preconventional - conventional - postconventional
Psychoanalytical
17. Does a gamete (reproductive) cell have full or half set of chromosomes?
Stage
Half (23)
Dyscalcula
Parallel play
18. What is another name for a sound wave's amplitude?
Toxic shock syndrome
Osteoporosis
Loudness
Operant conditioning
19. 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
Resilient child
Carl Rogers
Wear-and-Tear Theory
Fetal Alcohol Syndrome
20. What is: the part of the ear inside the cochlea; contains sensors that change energy into impulses to be decoded by the brain?
Preconventional Morality
Endocrine system
Peer group
Organ of corti
21. When can a person's short term memory become incapacitated?
As they age
Toddler
First trimester
Free morpheme
22. 1 + 5 + 6. What is the mean?
Sexual identity
Left hand - left eye - and simple comprehension
Family practitioner
4
23. What is the most extreme outcome of a woman drinking during her pregnancy?
Erogenous zones
Fetal death
Biological
Women - men
24. Defense mechanism: a type of displacement - a redirection of the feeling into a socially productive activity
Nature
Amplitude
Sublimation
Crystallized intelligence
25. A correlation coefficient of zero
Divergent thinking
No correlation
Sexually transmitted diseases
1 & 2
26. Types of child play in chronological order:
Divergent thinking
Contextual
Unoccupied behavior - onlooker - solitary independent (plays alone) - parallel play (plays around but not w/ others) - associative - cooperative play
Vestibular sense
27. Third stage in the Kubler-Ross's Stages of Dying: 'If you don't die I will do the following...'
Rods
Bargaining
Nature vs. nurture
Sigmund Freud
28. What are: the harmful substances to a developing fetus?
Old-old
Egocentrism
Teratogens
Set high standards - assist along the way
29. Those who are mentally retarded are least likely to also have WHAT condition?
Alzheimer's Disease
Cerebral palsy
John Watson
Structuralism
30. What is the main relay station for incoming sensory signals to the cerebral cortex - and outgoing motor signals from it?
Carl Rogers
Self-actualization
Humanistic Theorists
Thalamus
31. Biological theories of aging: as our bodies age - our immune systems become less effective at fighting disease - stress - etc.
Slowed growth - body/face malfunctions - nervous system disorders - mental retardation.
Through actions - doing what you believe is correct
Autoimmune Theory
Selective attention
32. What is the variable that the experimenter controls?
Independent variable
5
Psychological maltreatment
Placebo effect
33. Stage in which you see the right action as what satisfies your personal needs; a person becomes aware of two different viewpoints
Stage 2
Adrenal glands
Brain and spinal cord
Mean
34. One's wishes for the distribution of one's property and possessions after death
Puberty
A will
Cut in half
The Premack Principle
35. 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.
Parallel play
Iris
Cognitive theorist
Bargaining
36. What is: the realization that objects stay the same even when they are made to look different?
Resilient child
Conservation
Erik Erikson
RU-486
37. How can parents avoid down syndrome in their children?
Contextual
Create and release chemicals into the blood
Conceive at younger ages
Cephalocaudal and Proximodistal
38. What are areas in a baby's skull where cartilage hasn't yet hardened into bone?
Dialectical perspective
Fontanels
Id
Ferdinand Lamaze
39. Defense mechanism: you deny your feelings and come up with ways to justify your behavior
Excitement - plateau - orgasm - and resolution phases
Egocentric behavior
Rationalization
Autism
40. What thought process is supported by the example that: infants are given an object to hold - and then can recognize by sight the object.
Emergency contraception
Cross-modal perception
John Watson
The infant wants to be in proximity of the person who cares for them as a form of self-preservation. If a child feels that their caregiver is nearby and attentive - they feel confident to explore their surroundings. If not - they feel anxious and ove
41. What percent of children in kindergarten are immunized?
99%
Rationalization
Cerebellum
The skull - dura mater membrane - arachnoid layer - and pia mater.
42. What is: the type of thought related to numerical and intellectual puzzles--with both quick & creative responses?
Obstetrician-gynecologist - family practitioner - or midwife
Perception
Consciousness
Fluid intelligence
43. What is: a period in a child's development in which he/she is capable of understanding some things but not others
Commissures
Stage
4
Experimental research
44. Which stage of development is: Intimacy vs. Isolation? (emotional ties with others)
Contextual
Cooing
Young Adult
Longitudinal fissure
45. What is: another form of consciousness involving very little effort; dreaming while awake or letting the mind wander?
Family therapy
Gentle birth
No correlation
Daydreaming
46. What is the rating system to judge a baby's functionality when first born?
Behavioral
Vygotsky
Virginia Apgar - or Apgar Rating
Gender
47. What two other chemicals do the adrenal glands secrete?
Sympathetic nervous system
Epinephrine and norepinephrine
Positive Correlation
Encoding the information - represnting the information - and retrieving information from memory.
48. By the time they reach middle childhood - most girls will identify with one and only one _______.
Parallel play
Id - Ego - Super Ego
Best friend
Positive Correlation
49. What is the enzyme deficiency that can cause mental retardation without treatment?
Sympathetic nervous system
Olfactory sense
Infertility
Phenylketonuria (PKU)
50. A reinforcer that is physical (tangible) or from the environment - like payment for work - or a prize
John Watson
Fetal alcohol syndrome
Extrinsic reinforcer
Behaviorism