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DSST Lifespan Developmental Psychology
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1. Who proposed fluid/crystallized intelligence?
Raymond Cattell
Classical conditioning
Monozygotic twins
Ageism
2. Level 3 of Kohlberg's Theory of Moral Development includes which stages
5 & 6
Infants were placed on a solid - opaque surface - and the mothers were placed at the end of the table - where the opaque ended and glass begun. The infants didn't want to cross the glass because they could see the distance between themselves and the
Mentally retarded
Gestures
3. Defense mechanism: feelings are redirected to someone else
Fit in
Acceptance
Ethics
Displacement
4. How much alcohol is the safe amount to consume during pregnancy?
You need two - one from each parent - to conceive.
Critical period
Gentle birth
None!!
5. Which protective brain layer is the strongest and thickest?
Family therapy
Dura mater
They can be coached into learning a type of test--do better or worse - etc.
10-14 months
6. Why is autism rare in children for the first 2 1/2 years?
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7. What is: the process of working something out in your head; shows the difference between young children (act and try things out) and older (can do things in their heads)
Pitch
23 pairs
4-9
Operation
8. What is the name for the awareness of external and internal events?
Breast-feeding
Consciousness
None!!
Selective
9. What is: any pill designed to prevent pregnancy?
Outer ear
Rationalization
9-15
Oral contraceptives
10. What is: method of contraception by having no direct contact with partner's genitals?
Abstinence
Ego
Nature vs. nurture
Base of the skull; size of a pea
11. A term used in research used to describe something measurable usually expressed as a number
Quantitative
Auditory System
Neonate
Stillbirth
12. What is the chance of a baby having PKU?
Six or seven months
Epinephrine and norepinephrine
Psychoanalytical
1 in 14 -000
13. Categories of old age: 85+
Sampling
Social development or social cognition
Cut in half
Old-old
14. Therapy that involves the whole family
Women - men
Family therapy
Three
Spiritual health
15. What is: the part of the ear inside the cochlea; contains sensors that change energy into impulses to be decoded by the brain?
Chomsky
Organ of corti
50%
Medicated delivery
16. What is: the moment an ovum/egg is fertilized by sperm?
Conception
In vitro fertilization
Dura mater
99%
17. Fourth stage in the Kubler-Ross's Stages of Dying: 'There's nothing I can do about this'
Preparatory Depression
Sweet - bitter - salty - sour
Childhood depression
Middle ear
18. What is: attraction to both sexes?
Obstetrician-gynecologist
Sigmund Freud
Bisexual
Vestibular sense
19. What is: when a child can't be conceived via the usual method?
Infertility
Conservation
Closure
Autonomic Nervous System
20. What is: where the lens changes its curves to help the eye focus?
Maslow
Recognition
Create and release chemicals into the blood
Accommodation
21. What syndrome occurs when someone two X and one Y chromosome...and what gender does this make?
Kleinfelter Syndrome; male
Wilhelm Wundt
Gestalt psychology
Egocentrism
22. A morpheme that can be a word on its own
Free morpheme
Contraception
Elaboration
The skull - dura mater membrane - arachnoid layer - and pia mater.
23. What is the characteristic that: you may be more interested in a person - rather than what she is saying?
Selective
The brain
True
Base of the skull; size of a pea
24. Individual sounds w/ in a word
Abstinence
Commissures
Phonemes
Chomsky
25. A morpheme that must be w/ a word
Equilibrium
Random assignment
Rubella
Bound morpheme
26. When can a person's short term memory become incapacitated?
Stage 1
Celibacy
As they age
All drugs - including over the counter - aspirin - coffee
27. Second element: The presence of someone who knows more in an area - like a parent - teacher - coach - etc.?
Survey
More Knowledgeable Other (MKO)
Breast-feeding
Preconventional Morality
28. A type of conditioning in which a person associates an action with a consequence
Half (23)
Epinephrine and norepinephrine
Operant Conditioning
Cognitive theorist
29. A reinforcer that is physical (tangible) or from the environment - like payment for work - or a prize
Extrinsic reinforcer
Convergent thinking
Classical conditioning
Obstetrician-gynecologist
30. What is the part of the ear that includes the pinna and external auditory canal?
Occipital lobe
Gender role stereotypes
Outer ear
Freud
31. Rang the bell each time he fed the dog; eventually how early did the dogs start salivating?
Hypothalamus
Wilhelm Wundt
As soon as the bell was rung
Heterosexual
32. What are the two directions of growth in the embryo?
3-7
Adolescent
Valid
Cephalocaudal and Proximodistal
33. Deaf children will often be more proficient at communicating through _______ than do hearing infants - often being able to sign at ten months old
Cephalocaudal and Proximodistal
Six or seven months
Gestures
Amplitude
34. What is: the ability to group objects together on the basis of common features?
Bound morpheme
Negative Correlation
Suppression
Classification
35. The best way to teach children values is?
Mental health
Self-actualization - Esteem needs - Belonging and love - Safety - Physical needs
Organ of corti
Through actions - doing what you believe is correct
36. The smallest unit of a word which has meaning - may be bound or free
Morphemes
Cerebral cortex
1) Gather info - 2) Generate hypothesis - 3) Test hypothesis - 4) Revise
Emotional health
37. What are the 8 psychological approaches?
Increase
Rh positive
Stage 2
Biological; Behavioral; Cognitive; Humanistic; Psychoanalytical; Structuralism; Functionalism; Nature vs. Nurture
38. Which lobe is related to body sensations?
Parietal lobe
Independent variable
Positive Correlation
Spermicides
39. Jean Piaget extensively used which research method to study children?
Natural observation
1 in 14 -000
Selective
Five
40. What is a disease also called German measles?
True
Kibbutz
Rubella
Frontal lobe
41. What are: drugs taken within three days to prevent pregnancy from instances such as no protection - or a broken condom?
Self-actualization
Epinephrine and norepinephrine
Emergency contraception
The cerebrum
42. Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs consists of which steps?
Sympathetic nervous system
Self-actualization - Esteem needs - Belonging and love - Safety - Physical needs
As they age
Operant conditioning
43. What is the very critical period of the first 3 months in the womb?
Natural prepared childbirth
Prenatal development
Half (23)
Autism
44. By the time they reach middle childhood - most girls will identify with one and only one _______.
Best friend
Dura mater
Displacement
Assimilation
45. What is the term for fraternal twins?
Family therapy
On chromosomes
Abortion
Dizygotic twins
46. What two diseases - when caught early in the pregnancy - are most dangerous to the fetus?
Preschooler
Syphillis and rubella
Social learning theory
Harry Harlow
47. Parenting styles: makes few demands - hardly ever punishes
Ego
Permissive
Consciousness
Selective
48. Rogers and Maslow are both:
Women - men
Fontanels
Humanistic Theorists
Raymond Cattell
49. What is the simple type of learning for getting used to something?
Habituation
The posterior (back) fontanel: within two months of birth. The anterior (front) fontanel: by the child's 2nd birthday.
Five
Young Adult
50. In a case study - a single individual called a _____ is intensely studied
Subject
Babbling
Pons
Kibbutz