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DSST Lifespan Developmental Psychology
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1. All other variables w/in an experiment that researchers do not have control over
Social learning theory
Harry Harlow
Conservation
Dependent variable
2. What is the part of the ear that includes the pinna and external auditory canal?
Outer ear
Rationalization
Morality of Care
Semantics
3. What is the name for the 'crack' in the middle of the brain halves?
Longitudinal fissure
Preconventional Morality
Babbling
99%
4. Third step in Maslow's Hierarchy of needs in which you may want to meet needs of belongings and love through relationships
Cut in half
Content validity
Weak correlation
Belonging and love
5. What is: any pill designed to prevent pregnancy?
Lewis Terman
Condom
Teratogens
Oral contraceptives
6. What are the two parts responsible for bending light and focusing it in the back of the eye?
Cornea and lens
Childhood depression
Short attention span
Survey
7. What is the middle number in a set of data called?
Permissive
Oral contraceptives
Median
Prenatal development
8. A term used in research used to describe something measurable usually expressed as a number
Quantitative
Around age two
Lewis Terman
Sexual orientation
9. Used to show links between people - events - actions - behaviors - etc. while not determining the caus - rather is linked to statistics
Allow the skull's plates of bone to shift or flex - making childbirth easier.
Correlation Research
Strong correlation
Rite of Passage
10. What is the part of the ear that includes the eardrum - anvil - and stirrup?
Morality of Justice
Response extinction
Negative Correlation
Middle ear
11. What is: relating new information to something familiar
Pitch
Elaboration
Syphillis and rubella
Autoimmune Theory
12. Also called learning theory - based on the principle of observing and correcting behavior
Put babies on their backs to sleep - and not have anything extra (toys - pillows etc) in the bed or crib.
10-14 months
Behaviorism
Syphillis and rubella
13. We smell when airborne molecules of an odor reach tiny receptor cells in the top of the nasal cavity; what is the name of this receptor area?
Maslow
Negative reinforcer
Olfactory epithelium
Cochlea
14. Second stage in the Kubler-Ross's Stages of Dying: 'This is unfair. Why me?'
Classical conditioning
Cones
Puberty
Anger (Emotion)
15. How is extinction best achieved?
Classical conditioning
Emotional neglect
Smell
Gradually through shaping
16. 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
If the mom and child have different blood types - the mom's cells can attack the baby.
Morphemes
Stage 6
Semantics
17. 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
Zone of Proximal Development
Self-actualization
Classical conditioning works more to explain reflexive or unconscious reactions - Operant conditioning works to explain elective actions and reactions
Psychological maltreatment
18. Second development of language - still pre-speech; repetition of meaningful sounds
Super Ego
Carl Rogers
Babbling
Kubler-Ross's Stages of Dying
19. Biological theories of aging: the number of cells that have problems or mutations that increase w/ age
Genetic Mutation
Intestate
Autism
Morality of Justice
20. Age at which most children will identify specific 'best-friends'
Three percent
10
3 & 4
All drugs - including over the counter - aspirin - coffee
21. Read pages 22-25 for charts: Piaget's Stages of Development and Freud's Psychosexual Stages
Stage 3
Watching their parents
...
Socialization
22. Stages of friendship: one way assistance
Osteoporosis
Cornea and lens
4-9
Cerebral cortex
23. 1 -2 -2 -2 -3 -3 -5 -8 -9 -9. What is the mode?
2
1) Gather info - 2) Generate hypothesis - 3) Test hypothesis - 4) Revise
Toxic shock syndrome
Obstetrician-gynecologist
24. A baby repeating what you just said
Echolalia
Hour of love
Recognition
Psychological maltreatment
25. When a researcher observes and studies subjects w/o interacting or interfering w/ them
Commissures
Organ of corti
Naturalistic observation
Frequency
26. Failure to thrive is caused by:
Emotional neglect
Organ of corti
Young Adult
RU-486
27. What are: general term for the reproductive organs in a male or female?
Six months
Gonads
Homophobia
Abstinence
28. Age at with children start feeling a fear of the dark - which can be strong and appear suddenly
Pitch
Random assignment
Correlation Research
6
29. What is the variable that the experimenter controls?
Independent variable
Adolescent Egocentrism
Toddler
Amniocentesis
30. What is: attraction to the same sex?
B.F. Skinner
Lens
Homosexual
Baby Albert
31. The first experiment of classical conditioning was done by who?
The cloth monkey
Ivan Pavlov
Autoerotic behavior
Corpus callosum
32. The best way to teach children values is?
Through actions - doing what you believe is correct
Mainstreaming
Virginia Apgar - or Apgar Rating
Spiritual health
33. What is: growth from the head downward (head develops before rest of the body)?
Double blind
Cephalocaudal
Pitch
Subject
34. Those who are mentally retarded are least likely to also have WHAT condition?
Subjects may be dishonest w/ their answers
Cerebral palsy
Constant
Physical needs
35. Time at which most children begin to speak actual words
10-14 months
Double blind
No correlation
Invincibility fable
36. First step in Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs such as food water and shelter
Physical needs
Telegraphic speech
Excitement - plateau - orgasm - and resolution phases
Norplant
37. What is: an M.D. who provides comprehensive care for people of all ages?
Family practitioner
Diaphragm
Multiple caretakers
Social aspect of language
38. A term used to describe something similar in structure or organization
Mendel
Six months
Autonomic Nervous System
Qualitative
39. Which lobe is related to vision?
Occipital lobe
It measures a child against their peers - in that moment
Self-actualization - Esteem needs - Belonging and love - Safety - Physical needs
Sterilization
40. What do physicians recommend to prevent SIDS?
Valid
Independent variable
Frontal lobe
Put babies on their backs to sleep - and not have anything extra (toys - pillows etc) in the bed or crib.
41. What side of the N/N debate means that all children are first good; believe it is the way they are brought up that affects personality and actions?
Morality of Care
Rubella
Emotional neglect
Nurture
42. List the levels (in order) of Kohlberg's Theory of Moral Development
Cerebrum
Divergent thinking
Preconventional - conventional - postconventional
Self-concept
43. What is the name for the awareness of external and internal events?
Autoerotic behavior
Consciousness
Chomsky
Esteem needs
44. If a test measures what is meant to measure it is considered what?
Create and release chemicals into the blood
Valid
Humanistic
Adrenal glands
45. What is the part of the ear that includes the oval window - cochlea - and organ of Corti?
Inner ear
Gestalt psychology
Hurried-child
Esteem needs
46. Not physical abuse but when the child feels rejected or feels failure
Automatic
Three percent
Psychological maltreatment
Behavioral
47. 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
Gonads
Puberty
Esteem needs
Homosexual
48. In a case study - a single individual called a _____ is intensely studied
Denial (Shock)
Sympathetic - parasympathetic - and enteric
Subject
Anger (Emotion)
49. What is: your thoughts about what gives life purpose--the meaning of life - religion
Subjects may be dishonest w/ their answers
The Premack Principle
Autoimmune Theory
Spiritual health
50. The distortion of the results
Family situation - the world around you - lifespan - and maturity.
William James
Recall
Bias